Lidia Thorpe: Husband, Did Win, Not Australian, Family Tree

Political figure, businesswoman, and activist Lidia Alma Thorpe. She is the first Aboriginal Australian senator from Victoria and now serves as a senator for the Australian Greens. She has Gunnai, Gunditjmara, and DjabWurrung ancestry.

Lidia Thorpe: Husband, Did Win, Not Australian, Family Tree

Thorpe has also served in the Victorian legislature in the past. She became the first Native American woman elected to the state’s legislature on November 18, 2017, when she won the Northcote state by-election.

Husband:

She has a husband, although little is known about him. They have three kids.

After getting married, Lidia Thorpe got divorced. Her marital status is unknown at this time.

At the age of 17, her first child gave birth to a child. She has two granddaughters already.

Lidia Thorpe and her ex-husband, who “tried to ‘turn his life around and to be a decent dad to our kid,” share parental responsibilities for their youngest child.

• Affairs/Boyfriends – N/A
• Marital Status – Married
• Husband Name – Name not known
• Children – 3
• Daughters Name – Not known

Did Win:

At the 2018 Victorian state election, Thorpe was defeated by Labor’s Kat Theophanous for the seat. “We need to have a hard look at ourselves and have a review of what this election has done to our party, losing quite a significant amount of Greens members,” she said on ABC Radio Melbourne.

Lidia Thorpe’s victory in the byelection for the state Labor seat of Northcote on Saturday night marked a significant advance for the Greens in Melbourne’s inner city.

The first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Victorian parliament, Thorpe upset Labor’s Clare Burns in a seat the party had held for 90 years. We promised to make history, and we did, remarked Thorpe to his ecstatic fans.

Not Australian:

After first calling the Queen a coloniser, Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe was instructed to recite the pledge of loyalty for Australian lawmakers on Monday.

Thorpe, a Victoria-based Greens senator, received criticism from her parliamentary peers. One of them shouted, “You’re not a senator if you don’t do it properly,” to Thorpe.

Thorpe took her oath on Monday morning because she was not present in parliament last week when other senators were sworn in. Thorpe was instructed to read the phrases written on a card as she walked to the Senate floor while raising her right fist.

Family Tree:

48-year-old Thorpe positioned herself in a long line of radical Koori activists and powerful Blak women in her first address in the federal parliament. The history of the Thorpe family is tightly entwined with that of the formerly impoverished inner-city neighbourhoods of Fitzroy and Collingwood, as it is with so many other Aboriginal families in Victoria.

Edna Brown, Thorpe’s great-grandmother, rose to prominence as a community activist after being ejected from the Framlingham Aboriginal reserve at the age of 15 in 1932. After seeing too many Aboriginal men dying in the parks around that neighbourhood and being buried “as paupers in unmarked graves,” Edna established an Aboriginal Funeral Fund from her new house in Fitzroy.

Alma Thorpe, a well-known community activist and Lidia’s grandmother, participated in the demonstration against the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972 and soon after established Victoria’s first Aboriginal Health Service in 1973, the year Lidia was born. Marjorie Thorpe, a favoured federal Greens candidate for Gippsland, is Thorpe’s mother.

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