Outspoken Senator Lidia Thorpe has been filmed during an early morning, expletive-laden altercation outside a Melbourne club.
The footage was captured on the footpath outside Maxine’s Gentleman’s Club at 3am on Sunday, with Senator Thorpe reportedly leaving a friends’ 50th birthday celebration.
“You know what I say, to you, you know what I say to you and you …” she said to a group of people outside the club, in the footage aired by Seven News.
“… small penis, small penis.”
One of the men replied, “You’re a racist dog”.
Senator Thorpe was pulled away from the group by a companion, but she continued: “All I’ve got to say to the black brothers there and anyone that we’re fighting”.
“Any black man that stands with the f****** white little c*** like that, youse can all get f***** too.”
Before the senator left the club, she appeared to pull out her mobile phone and start recording the men still lingering on the footpath.
“You, you are marked,” she said.
Senator Thorpe issued a statement on Sunday night.
“It’s sad people are using whatever they can to drag me down when we’re trying to discuss important issues in this country,” the statement read.
In March, Senator Thorpe was pulled to the ground by police after she attempted to intervene in a protest organised by anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen outside Parliament House in Canberra.
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