Vic's first Aboriginal senator sworn in

By Rebecca Gredley
Updated October 6 2020 - 3:36am, first published 3:30am
Lidia Thorpe will be the first Aboriginal person to represent Victoria in the Senate.
Lidia Thorpe will be the first Aboriginal person to represent Victoria in the Senate.

New Greens senator Lidia Thorpe is planning to shake things up in federal parliament, arriving in Canberra with a reminder of the hundreds of Indigenous Australians who have died in custody.

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