Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has revealed the colourful exchange she had with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson during a bombshell speech which shook parliament last month.
the alleged sexual assault and harassment she experiencedSenator Hanson was heard interjecting, stating “rubbish” during the speech, and later standing up to announce she did not believe the “crocodile tears”.
Senator Lidia Thorpe shares her side of the colourful exchange she had with Senator Pauline Hanson. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman “The only comeback I had for someone like that with how she responded to me was: ‘F**k off, Pauline’.” “There are a lot of people out there that don’t want me in this role, they don’t want me in parliament, they don’t want me alive,” she told the Network 10 program.
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