Greens Leader Larissa Waters has denied Senator Dorinda Cox’s defection to Labor means the party has an issue with First Nations representation after fellow Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe quit in 2023.
Cox announced on Monday she had joined the Labor Party as it aligned better with her values, delivering another blow to the Greens as the party reels from the loss of three of its four lower house seats at选举。
dorinda cox和larissa waters，两人在2023年是同事时。 Corter：Alex Ellinghausen 沃特斯说：“尽管听到她的叛逃在公开宣布之前听到她的叛逃者，但“没有敌意”。
“多琳达在与总理的新闻发布会前一个小时给我打电话，”沃特斯说。 “而且我们进行了非常镇定和衡量的对话。”
她为绿党代表澳大利亚土著人辩护。 “We certainly have a bevy of grassroots First Nations members of our party,” Waters said.
“We’re really proud of that and our policies have been crafted by those folk and our broader membership and they’re strong on truth telling and treaties and justice.”
Cox’s departure means the federal Greens have no Indigenous Australian politicians in parliament.
After Bandt’s loss of领导层，考克斯（Cox）于5月竞选副领导人，但参议员梅赫林·法鲁奇（Mehreen Faruqi）赢得了9票对3票的投票。考克斯是第一个离开会议的党员，似乎是由绿党的工作人员安慰的。
沃特斯（Greens）的成员。
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“我认为，当我们进行领导票投票时，几周前，人们投票赞成他们信任工作的人员。延伸到2070年是“原始和令人恐惧的提醒”，原始人缺乏对自己的文化遗产权利的保护。
高级劳工部长上届劳动部长Tanya Plibersek上次担任环境组合 - 拒绝评论Cox对Cox倡导政府对政府政策的倡导是否有价值。她告诉美国广播公司National。
Cox去年遭到了抨击。
Cox遭到了抨击，当时该标头表明她在三年内损失了20名员工。他周一说：“我们检查了过去考虑的一切。这些问题得到了适当处理。 Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter.
