{"id":300238,"date":"2025-10-12T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=300238"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:22:44","slug":"senator-lidia-thorpe-threatens-to-burn-down-parliament-house-at-pro-palestine-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=300238","title":{"rendered":"Senator Lidia Thorpe Threatens to Burn Down Parliament House at Pro-Palestine Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe declared at a Melbourne pro-Palestine rally on Sunday that she would burn down Parliament House if needed to advance the Palestinian cause, despite a recent U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza marking two years of the Israel-Hamas war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands attended the demonstration organized by the Palestine Action Group, with similar protests in Sydney and other Australian cities, as organizers criticised the truce for not addressing Israel&#8217;s border control and Palestinian detainees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement drew backlash from lawmakers like Victorian Liberal MP David Southwick and former Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, who called for investigations under hate speech laws and her expulsion from the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands attended the demonstration organized by the Palestine Action Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":300239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,858,9213,4124],"tags":[14034,993,8,8937],"class_list":["post-300238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-israel","category-palestine","category-protest","tag-lidia-thorpe","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-war-in-palestine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300240,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300238\/revisions\/300240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}