Peter Dutton has hit back at Lidia Thorpe after she branded him a “racist” and “violent person”, claiming the rebel senator is not “stable” enough to be in parliament.
Daily Mail Australia revealed on Tuesday night that Senator Thorpe had launched a cruel spray at the opposition leader.
The independent senator, who defected from the Greens last February, was asked on a left-wing podcast about Dutton’s “Trumpian tactics” during “Invasion Day”.
‘Dutton is racist. Dutton is a violent person,” Senator Thorpe told the Show left green on Mondays.
“Dutton used to be a Queensland police officer who caused harm to many black people on the street, circulating his power through the streets.”
The Liberal Party leader was asked for his response to the comments on Thursday morning.
At first, Dutton said he didn’t want to “give her the publicity she craves” before they faced each other.
“I don’t think she deserves a promotion. She shouldn’t be in the Senate,” he told 2GB.
Daily Mail Australia revealed on Tuesday that Senator Lidia Thorpe (pictured) had unleashed cruel spray on the opposition leader, calling him a “racist” and “violent person”.
Now Peter Dutton (pictured earlier this month) has hit back, unleashing his own spray.
‘She is not stable enough to be a member of the Australian parliament and I think people recognize that through her actions.
“Her model is to attract the attention of the lunatic left… She was elected to Parliament for the Greens and I think it’s just another reminder to Australians not to vote Greens or Teals.”
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Senator Thorpe for comment.
Senator Thorpe, who achieved global notoriety last year when she shouted “fuck the colony” at King Charles, also criticized Dutton’s approach to Australia Day.
Dutton said earlier this month that the Coalition, if elected at the next federal election, would force councils to hold traditional citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, January 26.
Senator Thorpe said Conservatives were using Australia Day as a rallying point as white people’s cultural dominance was threatened due to the slide towards minority status.
“White people are becoming a minority in this country and they are very afraid of that,” he told the Green Left Show.
‘Black and brown people are rising up and their messages are becoming more and more desperate.
Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe, who achieved global notoriety last year when she shouted “f*** the colony” at King Charles (pictured), claimed that “white people are becoming a minority” before suggesting that “black people and the dark ones are rising.” ‘
“And that’s because they are afraid and they want to transmit that fear to others.”
Prominent No campaigner and former Liberal candidate Warren Mundine branded Senator Thorpe’s comments “nonsense” and called her a “waste of space”.
“This is what makes me laugh about people on the far left: they call Peter Dutton racist and the Liberal Party racist, but look at the candidates across the country,” Mundine told Daily Mail Australia.
“We have candidates with Chinese, Indian and Aboriginal heritage… all of them proud Australians of different races and religions.”
Mundine singled out Sam Kayal, a Muslim father-of-two who is the Liberal Party candidate for Werriwa in Sydney’s southwest in the next federal election, which is due to be held before May.
The businessman, who was overlooked in shortlisting for the seat of Bradfield despite having the backing of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, said Senator Thorpe’s comments had no basis in reality.
“They’re just throwaway lines designed to keep your name in the paper, and to some extent it works,” Mundine said.
Senator Thorpe claimed that ‘Dutton used to be a Queensland police officer who caused harm to many black people on the street, circulating his power through the streets. Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting that Dutton (pictured as a police officer) is a racist or violent person.
Senator Thorpe’s claim that “whites are becoming a minority” has not yet come true according to demographic statistics.
While the Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on race, it does ask each respondent to name up to two ancestries.
In the 2021 census, 57 per cent of people said their ancestry was European, while 30 per cent said they were Australian and 17.4 per cent said they were Asian.
Just over three percent of people identified as indigenous.
Of the 26.6 million people living in Australia in June 2023, an estimated 8.2 million were born overseas.
Within that figure, those born in England were the largest group at 962,000, while those born in India were second (846,000) and those born in China third (656,000).
Australia has a relatively low birth rate and record levels of immigration, meaning the demographic balance is changing rapidly.
Mr Mundine asked: “If we are such a racist country, why are millions of people trying to move to Australia?”
Senator Thorpe (pictured protesting inside Parliament in November) believes Australia is a racist country.
But Senator Thorpe, who has a white father and Indigenous heritage on her mother’s side, said there were high levels of racism directed towards Aboriginal people.
‘Unfortunately we live in a racist country. And we saw it again during the (Voice) referendum,’ he said.
“But what my people face on the streets every day, going to stores and using public transportation or trying to live their daily lives, is that racism is real and racism is everywhere.”
Senator Thorpe also took aim at the Labor government, calling Anthony Albanese’s administration “disappointing”.
“I thought we might get some wins on the board with a Labor government, but we haven’t been able to do that at all,” he said.
“I will continue to hold them accountable, calling for a treaty, for the truth to be told, and an end to the many injustices my people face.”
Prominent No campaigner and former Liberal Party candidate Warren Mundine (pictured) branded Senator Thorpe’s comments “nonsense” and called her a “waste of space”.
He also drew a parallel between the treatment of indigenous people in Australia and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
“What is happening in Palestine is genocide and ecocide, something my people are certainly very familiar with,” he said.
“It is happening in Palestine in the name of Zionism, so we have to stand in solidarity against a genocide.”
The podcast host thanked Senator Thorpe for “shouting out to Charles” at the end of the discussion.
“That was one of the highlights of 2024,” the host gushed.