Commentary
Politics is often colourful. Not only do the various political parties have identifying colours—blue, red, green, and yellow—but the political discourse can also provide a kaleidoscope with the language spoken and the positions taken by the various players.
And what a position was taken by extreme left-wing activist Senator Lidia Thorpe when she resigned from the Greens.
Resigning from Australia’s most extreme left-wing parliamentary party because it isn’t extreme enough suggests a rich vein of extremism coming the Senate’s way over the next few years.
Her amalgam of Black and Green politics appears to have fractured, leaving Senator Thorpe on the cross—(read upset) crossbench in the Australian Senate….