Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe was pulled to the ground by a police officer after attempting to interrupt a women’s rights rally on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra.
In several videos posted online, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as Posie Parker), the British women’s rights advocate behind the “Let Women Speak” rallies in Melbourne and Tasmania, was speaking in front of a crowd under a marquee in the rain.
A few seconds later, Thorpe, a former member of the left-wing Australian Greens before falling out over the Voice proposal, was seen crossing the road to enter the protest, draped in an Aboriginal flag….