Secret Relationship With Gang Leader Forces Left-Wing Greens Senator to Resign From Senior Position

Secret Relationship With Gang Leader Forces Left-Wing Greens Senator to Resign From Senior Position
Incoming Senator Lidia Thorpe during her swearing-in at in the Senate at Parliament House on October 06, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images
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Lidia Thorpe, deputy leader of the left-wing Australian Greens party has resigned from her position—but remains a senator—after revelations emerged of a relationship with the ex-leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang, which occurred at the same time she sat on a parliamentary committee investigating the criminal gangs.

The joint-parliamentary committee on law enforcement she was apart of also had access to classified documents on gangs.

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