Liberal senator says world leaders could give Australia ‘a wide berth’ without measures to deter protests, but expert says such sanctions not ‘appropriate’
The government is understood to be considering possible action against Lidia Thorpe in response to her protest against King Charles at Parliament House.The government is understood to be considering possible action against Lidia Thorpe in response to her protest against King Charles at Parliament House.
That put the protesting senators beyond the reach of existing punitive measures other than a censure, which carries no penalty beyond rebuke.that read “Stop the human rights abuses” during an address by the Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Jr to a joint meeting of both houses of parliament.
Dr Piero Moraro, a civil disobedience expert and criminal justice lecturer at Edith Cowan University, urged against increasing the existing sanctions in response to Thorpe’s protest.
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