Lidia Thorpe claims she was ‘set upon with a weapon’ after a terrifying incident in Brisbane while the Labor conference was underway

Lidia Thorpe claims she was set upon ‘with a weapon’ in the streets of Brisbane. 

The Independent senator said the terrifying incident took place while Labor’s national conference was underway nearby.

‘So, due to the Labor Love In last weekend my security was compromised,’ she said in a Twitter post.

‘As a result I was set upon with a weapon in the streets of Brisbane. Says it all right!’

Labor faithful from across the nation converged on Brisbane for a three-day political conference beginning on August 17.

‘So, due to the Labor Love In last weekend my security was compromised,’ she said in a Twitter post. ‘As a result I was set upon with a weapon in the streets of Brisbane. Says it all right!’

The streets of Brisbane were inundated with unionists, politicians and protesters (pictured) during the national conference

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese kicked off the conference by calling for support for the Voice to Parliament referendum alongside a scathing attack on the Liberal party for having a ‘pathological problem with ever saying the word Yes’.

Over the course of the event, Labor politicians, business leaders, union members, activists and everyday members mingled and debated the framework of the government’s agenda. 

Ms Thorpe was the most recent guest at the National Press Club, where she urged the PM to call off the referendum.

Ms Thorpe said she is pleading, on behalf of her people, for the government to implement some of the recommendations from reports into Indigenous incarceration rates and child removals from homes.

She doesn’t think a Voice to Parliament will have any power to make demonstrable change to First Nations people, and instead argues that there are ways to improve lives without a referendum.

‘There is no progress. There is a false hope. We deserve better,’ she said.

‘This is why we should call off the referendum. It has caused nothing but harm and division, and for what? There won’t be a change until this society changes.

‘What we need is an end to the war on our people that started on the day the boats arrived.’