Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Australian politician representing the Australian Greens and is a senator in the federal parliament for the state of Victoria.
Lidia Thorpe ethnicity: Is Lidia Thorpe aboriginal?
Lidia Thorpe is the first Aboriginal senator from Victoria and comes from a family of Aboriginal activists.
She was born in 1973 in Carlton, Victoria and is of DjabWurrung, Gunnai, and Gunditjmara descent. She comes “from a long line of strong black women”, and identifies as Aboriginal.
Her grandmother, Alma Thorpe, was one of the founders of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service. Her mother, Marjorie Thorpe was a co-commissioner for the Stolen Generations inquiry as well as a member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Both her grandmother and great-grandmother were Koori activists in Footscray and Collingwood. her sister and uncle are also involved in activism.
Her uncle, Robbie Thorpe, was linked to some of the earliest struggles for Aboriginal Australian self-determination, and was involved with the Pay The Rent campaign. Her sister, Meriki Onus, co-founded the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) collective.
