‘Cancer in the country’: Thorpe’s final rant

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Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe says the referendum has exposed where racism exists in Australia, as she casts her No vote in the Voice referendum.

Heading into the polling booth at the Northern School for Autism in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, Ms Thorpe wore a black T-shirt with “Vote No” written across her chest.

Senator Lidia Thorpe votes in the Voice referendum in Reservoir, Victoria. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling“This referendum has shown where the cancer is in this country, and where we need to heal this country.”The firebrand senator has lead the contingent of indigenous Australians who oppose the Voice to parliament on the grounds that Treaty is the way forward and the Voice will be a “powerless” body.

“There are one in five voters that are still to make up my own mind, and they will vote today, and I want those people to vote yes.”

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