We have bigger issues around freedom of speech than Lidia Thorpe’s noisy protest
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
King Charles – as the old-fashioned saying goes – didn’t come down in the last shower. He’s unlikely to have been fazed by the outburst from independent senator Lidia Thorpe, who disrupted Monday’s Parliament House reception for the royals.
And neither, frankly, should anyone else.
Thorpe, clad in a possum-skin cloak,...





