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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Butler and Benita Kolovos

Greens’ First Nations conveners side with Lidia Thorpe and say they do not support voice to parliament

Former Greens senator, now independent Lidia Thorpe
Former Greens senator, now independent Lidia Thorpe. The Greens’ First Nations Network has criticised the party’s decision to campaign for the voice. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The conveners of the Greens’ First Nations advisory group say they do not support the voice to parliament or a referendum on Indigenous constitutional recognition, publicly rebuking their federal party room and instead backing the departed senator Lidia Thorpe’s opposition to the move.

Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng, the national co-convener of the Greens’ First Nations Network, claimed other members may follow Thorpe out the door, and pushed back on the decision of federal MPs and senators to publicly campaign for the voice.

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