{"id":20973,"date":"2023-04-21T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=20973"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T11:19:41","slug":"pm-tries-to-distance-voice-from-thorpe-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/pm-tries-to-distance-voice-from-thorpe-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"PM tries to distance voice from Thorpe behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>If the Prime Minister truly believes Senator Lidia Thorpe is struggling with mental health issues,&nbsp;he should begin removing her from the Parliament.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese\u2019s comments about Senator Thorpe were a transparent attempt to distance his proposed indigenous voice to Parliament from the radical black nationalists represented by the exGreens senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver the last two days, the Prime Minister has made statements claiming radical Aboriginal campaigner and Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe\u2019s behaviour is symptomatic of mental health issues,\u201d Senator Hanson said. \u201cSenator Thorpe has hit back at the claims as \u2018misogynistic\u2019 and \u2018racist\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe aim of Mr Albanese\u2019s statements about mental health is to try and distance his proposed voice to Parliament from Senator Thorpe. \u201cThe Prime Minister\u2019s claims that Senator Thorpe suffers from a mental health condition are entirely unfounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the Prime Minister truly believes Senator Thorpe has mental health issues and is unfit for Parliament, he must start having her deemed ineligible to hold a Senate position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf not, the Prime Minister must immediately stop denigrating the Senator and admit that his voice to Parliament risks increasing the number of like-minded people like Senator Thorpe to the voice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Prime Minister truly believes Senator Lidia Thorpe is struggling with mental health issues,&nbsp;he should begin removing her from the Parliament.&nbsp;&nbsp; One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese\u2019s comments about Senator Thorpe were a transparent attempt to distance his proposed indigenous voice to Parliament from the radical black nationalists represented &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/pm-tries-to-distance-voice-from-thorpe-behaviour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PM tries to distance voice from Thorpe behaviour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20974,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions\/20974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}