Lidia Thorpe hits back as PM suggests health issues could be behind strip club altercation

The senator called Anthony Albanese's comments insulting' after video circulated of her in an expletive-laden argument with several men

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The independent senator Lidia Thorpe has hit back at Anthony Albanese's suggestions that health issues could be behind her early-morning altercation outside a Melbourne strip club, claiming the prime minister and her detractors are taking their info from rightwing media".

Thorpe has come under fire this week after video circulated of her in an expletive-laden argument with several men outside a Brunswick club at about 3am on Sunday morning. One person is heard calling Thorpe a racist dog". She replies: Any black man that stands with the fucking white little cunt like that, youse can all get fucked, too."

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