Indigenous 上院議員 やめるs party over Australian 国民投票
CANBERRA, Australia: (AP) - An Indigenous 上院議員 in Australia やめる the minor Greens party on Monday in a 不一致 over a 国民投票 to be held this year that would create an Indigenous 発言する／表明する to 議会.
Sen. Lidia Thorpe´s 辞職 illustrates 深い 分割s の中で Indigenous Australians on the 国民投票 and 増加するs the difficulty for the 政府 in getting 法律制定 through the 上院.
The Greens have 示唆するd they will support a 国民投票 likely to be held this year that would enshrine in the 憲法 a 団体／死体 代表するing Indigenous people to advise 議会 on 政策s that 影響 their lives. It would be known as the Indigenous 発言する／表明する.
Thorpe had argued that Australia should first 調印する a 条約 with its 初めの inhabitans that 定評のある that they had never ceded their 主権，独立 to the British colonists.
She said after quitting the Greens that the party´s support for the 発言する／表明する was "at 半端物s with the community of 行動主義者s who are 説 条約 before 発言する／表明する."
"This country has a strong grassroots 黒人／ボイコット 君主 movement 十分な of 信頼できる and committed 軍人s and I want to 代表する that movement fully in this 議会," Thorpe told reporters. "It has become （疑いを）晴らす to me that I can´t do that from within the Greens."
上院議員 Lidia Thorpe 発表するs she is 辞職するing from the Greens party and moving to the cross （法廷の）裁判 at a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 at 議会 House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Thorpe, an Indigenous 上院議員, has やめる the minor Greens party in an 不一致 over a 国民投票 to be held this year that would create an Indigenous 発言する／表明する to 議会. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image 経由で AP)
Another high-profile Indigenous Sen. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has also spoken out against the 発言する／表明する, arguing it would divide the nation along racial lines. Her 保守党, the 国家のs, took an 公式の／役人 position in November to …に反対する the 国民投票, 誘発するing a 上級の 国会議員 and 発言する／表明する 支持する Andrew Gee to やめる the party.
Bipartisan support has long been regarded as a 必要条件 for a 国民投票´s success. But にもかかわらず the 分割s, an opinion 投票 published by The Australian newspaper on Mon day 設立する 56% of 回答者／被告s in 好意 of the 発言する／表明する. 対抗者s accounted from 37% and 7% were 決めかねて.
The 調査する of 1,512 投票者s 全国的な was 行為／行うd from Feb. 1 to 4. It had a 3 百分率 point 利ざや of error.
Indigenous people accounted for 3.2% of Australia´s 全住民 in the 2021 国勢（人口）調査. Indigenous Australians are the most disadvantaged 民族の group in Australia. They die younger than other Australians, are いっそう少なく likely to be 雇うd, 達成する lower education levels and are overrepresented in 刑務所，拘置所 全住民s.
Greens leader Adam Bandt and his 副 Mehreen Faruqi said they were sorry Thorpe had decided to leave their 進歩／革新的な party.
Bandt said he had told Thorpe that the party´s 憲法 許すd her to take a different position on the 発言する／表明する from her 同僚s.
Pakistan-born Faruqi said she and Thorpe had worked together as "strong 同盟（する）s against white 最高位 and 人種差別主義 in all its forms."
"I know that we will continue to work together, this work of decolonization, 同様に as working for 気候 司法（官）," Faruqi said.
Thorpe said she would continue to work with the Greens on their 気候 政策. The Greens want Australia to 減ずる its 温室 gas 放出／発行s by 75% below 2005 levels by the end of the １０年間.
The 中心-left Labor Party 政府 enshrined in 法律 a 43% 的 after it was elect in May last year.
Labor has relied on the Greens´ 12 上院議員s to pass 法律制定 through the upper 議会 that the 保守的な 野党 …に反対するs.
With the Greens´ support, Labor had only needed to enlist the 投票（する） of a 選び出す／独身 unaligned 上院議員. With Thorpe´s 出発, Labor now will need the support of two unaligned 上院議員s.
Bandt said the 政府 would continue to rely on the Greens to get its 法律を制定する 協議事項 through the 上院.
"The 状況／情勢 remains now still more or いっそう少なく the same in the 上院. The Greens are central in the 勢力均衡 in the 上院," Bandt said.
Thorpe has 証明するd a 過激な and 意見の不一致を生じる element in the 上院. She was 非難するd for referring to the then-British 君主 during a 上院 断言するing in 儀式 in August last year as "the colonizing, her majesty Queen Elizabeth II."
She 辞職するd as the Greens 副 leader in the 上院 in October over what Bandt called a "重要な 欠如（する） of judgment" in failing to 宣言する an intimate 関係 she had with a former 大統領，／社長 of a biker ギャング（団）.
