Lidia Thorpe Messed Up, But The Backlash Shows WoC In Politics Are Held To A Different Standard

Greens Senator and Djab Wurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe resigned her post as deputy senate leader

Dean Martin requested a self-referral to the senate privileges committee not be quitting politics as Thorpe put it “not exercising good judgement”. But how many other MPs have exercised poor judgement and suffered fewer consequences than Thorpe? Matthew Guy a lavish lobster dinner with an alleged Melbourne mafia boss still

Whatever you think of Lidia Thorpe’s failure to declare her relationship with ex-bikie, can we at least agree that right wing media are denouncing her in a way they would never criticise a white man, no matter what he did? Intersectional discrimination harms the social fabric. pic.twitter.com/uoeA8BoQsx

— Victoria Fielding (@DrVicFielding) October 23, 2022

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Why does Lidia Thorpe have to resign over her undisclosed relationship with a former bikie but Alan Tudge gets to keep his job for an undisclosed affair with a staffer? #hypocrites

— Sonny (@Sonny_NC) October 20, 2022

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If white men were held to the same standard as Indigenous women there would be no need for an ICAC. #AssociatingWithLidia

— EveryonelovesAsh (@AshDahlstrom) October 20, 2022

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The irony of Sussan Ley telling Lidia Thorpe to resign.

In 2017, Sussan Ley was caught using travel expenses for 27 trips to the Gold Coast, including one where she bought a $795,000 apartment. Ley didn’t resign. She got promoted to Liberal deputy leader. #auspol #icac pic.twitter.com/atbDIRfLZ6 — Stephen (@TheAviator1992) October 21, 2022

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last week after it was revealed she failed to disclose a brief relationship with ex-Rebels bikie gang president in 2021. She admitted to her mistake and on Monday, meaning she handed herself over to be investigated for corruption. Thorpe handled the scandal the way a leader should and declared on Tuesday she would . But the vitriol spat at her within the right-wing media and online has shown once again that women in politics, especially First Nations women, are held to a different standard than their white, male counterparts. Thorpe dated Martin in early 2021 while she was on the parliamentary law enforcement committee, three years after he stepped down from the Rebels’ Victorian chapter in 2018. He has no criminal convictions and there is no suggestion he is still involved with the Rebels. But Greens staffers raised concerns about the relationship because the law enforcement committee regularly received confidential briefings about organised crime and bikie gangs. Not disclosing the relationship was indeed, , Let’s start with connections to organised crime. It is by all accounts a bad thing. But Thorpe’s not the only politician to be accused of fraternisation. Victorian opposition leader kept his high-status job after he was found to have had to allegedly procure a political donation in 2017. Guy has been known only as the “lobster mobster” in public discourse since and he’s running to be premier in 2022. Did the Murdoch media come for him in the same way they came for Thorpe? What about undisclosed relationships then? Former federal education minister not only had an extra-marital relationship with his former media adviser , but he was also accused of being emotionally, and on one occasion physically, abusive towards her. He stood down from the ministry but remained on the backbench. All the while then-Prime Minister held a neutral stance. And it was months after the broke that . In early 2021 the former Attorney-General was accused of historical rape, a crime that comes with a prison sentence of up to 14 years, but he remained on Morrison’s ministry for six months before he resigned over a . And now we come to our very own former PM. Among allllll the disagreeable shit Morrison’s done, perhaps the worst or at the least most relevant here is that he failed to disclose (i.e. tell fkn anyone) that he had sworn himself into overseeing five ministerial portfolios while he was the country’s leader. “It’s undermined our democracy. It’s an attack on the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy as we know it. And not just Mr Morrison, but others who were involved in this, need to be held to account,” Prime Minister said. Yes, all politicians should be held to account for their failings, but this incident within the Greens highlights that they are absolutely not. Liberal Party members and other MPs and senators like are now calling for Thorpe to be censured. A censure motion basically allows ministers to formally signal they’re pissed off with the performance or actions of another minister without it having any constitutional or legal consequences. I don’t normally use proverbs but there’s never been a more pertinent time to yell: let he who is without sin cast the first motherfucking stone.