{"id":207211,"date":"2025-10-12T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207211\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:21:10","slug":"lidia-thorpe-makes-unbelievable-threat-to-burn-down-parliament-house-as-pro-palestine-rallies-take-off-in-sydney-and-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207211\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidia Thorpe makes unbelievable threat to ‘burn down Parliament House’ as pro-Palestine rallies take off in Sydney and Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Lidia Thorpe<\/a> has said she may be willing to ‘burn down’ parliament as pro-Palestine protests take place across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Demonstrators have taken to\u00a0the streets of Australia’s major cities days after Israel and Hamas agreed to a tentative ceasefire.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Free Palestine Melbourne<\/a> has again taken to the steps of Melbourne’s State Library in the latest of their ongoing Sunday demonstrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senator Lidia Thorpe was one of several speakers who addressed the crowd of thousands, reported to be of a ‘significant’ size.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘So we stand with you every day, and we will fight every day, and we will turn up every day and if I have to burn down Parliament House to make a point\u2026 I am not there to make friends,’ she said, according to the Herald Sun<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

‘I am there to get justice for our people and I am there to free Palestine<\/a>\u00a0from the river to the sea.’<\/p>\n

The Independent Senator also cast doubts on the peace agreement reached between Israel and Hamas, taking special aim at the US President.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘How can we trust Trump and these racist Nazis that continue to violate our lives, our babies, our women, our families, our land?’ she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Senator <\/p>\n

Senator Lidia Thorpe has threatened to ‘burn down’ parliament amid nationwide pro-Palestine protests. She is pictured speaking to demonstrators in Melbourne in August\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Pro-Palestine <\/p>\n

Pro-Palestine demonstrators have turned out nationwide despite a tentative peace agreement between Hamas and Israel. Protesters are pictured in Sydney<\/p>\n

‘There will be no justice unless Palestine self determines their own destiny.’<\/p>\n

It comes nearly a year after Ms Thorpe disrupted parliamentary proceedings, entering the press gallery viewing area of the Senate to yell pro-Palestinian slogans.<\/p>\n

The Victorian representative had been suspended from the Senate a day earlier after she ripped up a motion by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson on the chamber floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The motion sought to have former Labor senator Fatima Payman, who was born in Afghanistan, investigated for an alleged section 44 citizenship issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sunday’s marches come ahead of a peace summit in Egypt on Monday where the Gaza peace plan is expected to be signed. A ceasefire took place on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Melbourne, police are escorting protesters through the crowded CBD towards the US consulate, the planned end-point of the march.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, demonstrations have sprung up far-and-wide including in Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Canberra and in the regions.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Sydney, protesters gathered in Hyde Park before making their way down George Street towards Belmore Park.<\/p>\n

Crowds heard from Australians who were detained by Israel after attempting to break its naval blockade of Gaza as part of the Sumud Flotilla<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Protesters <\/p>\n

Protesters turned out in the thousands despite Israel recently reaching a ceasefire with Hamas\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Sydney <\/p>\n

Sydney protesters met in Hyde Park before making their way down George Street<\/p>\n

Among them was Surya McEwen who was held in Israel’s Ketziot Prison before being deported back to Australia this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘They wanted to scare us, they scuffed us up a bit, we experienced some violence, some sexual violence, some abuse,’ he said, according to the\u00a0ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier plans to protest at the Opera House were scrapped by organisers after the NSW Supreme Court approved a police prohibition order citing safety risks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NSW Police estimated about 8,000 protesters showed up to march from Hyde Park, well below the expected turn-out of 40,000.<\/p>\n

Police said there were ‘no major incidents’ during the Sydney march but added a 30-year-old man had been arrested\u00a0at the intersection of George and Liverpool Streets about 3.20pm after being found in possession of an ‘offensive implement’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He will be taken to Surry Hills Police Station and charged.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Brisbane, protesters are making their way from Queens Gardens into the CBD before returning to the gardens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, protesters have gathered in Hobart for a planned march from the city’s waterfront area to the nearby Parliament Lawns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friends of Palestine WA confirmed the rallies would go ahead on Sunday, casting doubts on the longevity of the ceasefire agreement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We do not trust Israel and we do not trust Donald Trump,’ it said.<\/p>\n

‘Previous ceasefires were broken by Israel and the genocide has continued apace.’<\/p>\n

More to come.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senator Lidia Thorpe has said she may be willing to ‘burn down’ parliament as pro-Palestine protests take place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,651,100,13043,43,6897,128181,647,44,670,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-207211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-dailymail","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-lidia-thorpe","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-sydney","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}