Lidia Thorpe calls for Camp Sovereignty attacks to be recognised as a hate crime

Lidia Thorpe also addressed the lack of action around the attack on people in Camp Sovereignty during the first ‘March for Australia’ rallies, which were supported by neo-Nazis. Thorpe says that despite the attack meeting he hate crimes threshold in her opinion, there has been no action at a federal level:

There’s a petition with over 400,000 signatures to call on this government to make it a hate crime & we’ve heard nothing from the Prime Minister. So when a synagogue or a Mosque is attacked in this country, the prime minister is all over it. But when it’s Aboriginal sacred site, he must be hiding under the desk somewhere, because he is not calling it out. And it’s an absolute disgrace for the prime minister to be ducking and weaving on calling this a hate crime and standing up for First Peoples in this country.