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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Lidia Thorpe’s treatment at anti-trans rally ‘disturbing and concerning’, Linda Burney says

The minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, says an incident in which senator Lidia Thorpe was knocked to the ground, apparently by an Australian federal police officer, while protesting against an anti-trans rights rally was “disturbing and concerning”.

On Thursday Thorpe was pulled to the ground after she rushed towards a lectern at which anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull was addressing a small crowd of supporters outside Australian Parliament House in Canberra.

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