Lidia Thorpe’s relationship with ex-bikie should have been declared to law enforcement committee, Labor says

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe says she accepts she had ‘not exercised good judgment’ in not declaring her relationship with Dean Martin. Photograph: Sam Mooy/Getty Images

The Greens senator Lidia Thorpe’s failure to declare a possible perceived conflict of interest in her relationship with a former bikie is “disappointing”, according to the then deputy chair of parliament’s law enforcement committee.

Anne Aly, now the minister for early childhood education, made the comment to Guardian Australia after the Greens leader, Adam Bandt, asked for and received Thorpe’s resignation as Greens deputy leader in the Senate over the undisclosed relationship with Dean Martin in 2021.