• Former Australian Greens Senator for NSW
• Became a Senator on — Federal election
• Left Senate on n/a — Still in office

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Bills: Crimes Amendment (Prohibiting the Strip Searching of Children) Bill 2026, Crimes Amendment (Prohibiting Shackling During Childbirth) Bill 2026; Second Reading (15 Oct 2026)

“I rise on behalf of my party, the Greens, to give our clear and unambiguous support to these two pieces of legislation brought by Senator Thorpe: the Crimes Amendment (Prohibiting the Strip Searching of Children) Bill 2026 and the Crimes Amendment (Prohibiting Shackling During Childbirth) Bill 2026. The first piece of legislation is to prohibit the stripsearching of children. Basically, it's...”

Matters of Urgency: Fossil Fuel Industry (13 Oct 2026)

“():  Well, this is the coalition all over. They think that you can pass a motion and suddenly you can remove physics from the planet or that you can pass a motion and suddenly we'll have a whole extra planet and scope 3 emissions will just find their way off to some other magic planet that the coalition have got in their mind. I don't know if they've realised, but, when the coal is...”

Questions without Notice: International Relations: Australia and the United States of America (13 Oct 2026)

“Minister, will you criticise a single thing that Australia's largest ally does? For example, the United States has just made a fresh deal with Russia to buy billions of dollars of Russian diesel that will fund the Russian war machine in the illegal invasion of Ukraine. This is while your government refuses to join Europe and close the loophole that allows billions of dollars of Russian oil to...”

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• Has spoken in 188 debates in the last year — well above average amongst Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 520 times in debates — above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)