Why did not Bandt learn about Lidia Thorpe’s failure to reveal a relationship with an ex-bikie boss? Good political leaders want good employees.
The phrase “lack of judgment” appears to crop up steadily round Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe. She lacked it when she shouted a disgusting insult at Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes within the Senate. She lacked it when she abused an Aboriginal elder throughout a gathering, appalling her chief of employees. And she or he lacks it when she freelances on Greens’ help for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
So the revelation by the ABC that Thorpe had a quick relationship with former bikie boss Dean Martin whereas she was serving on Parliament’s joint standing committee on legislation enforcement matches a sample. She determined, regardless of her personal employees strongly warning her, that it wasn’t a difficulty value disclosing. She now admits that was poor judgment.
What’s extra severe is that Thorpe’s employees advised Adam Bandt’s chief of employees, Damien Lawson, concerning the matter and Lawson did not inform Bandt. Lawson has been “counselled” over that lack of judgment, Bandt mentioned yesterday.
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