Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has unreservedly apologised to Liberal Hollie Hughes after she was accused of making a ‘disgusting’ comment during Senate debate. The comment was not picked up on microphones but other Senators told media Thorpe had said “At least I can keep my legs shut”. Liberal senator Ben Small told the Senate Thorpe “just made the most outrageous statement directed at Senator Hughes”, prompting her to retract her statement. “I just got a view of something over there that disturbed me. But I’m happy to retract,” she said. Later on Wednesday evening, Thorpe told the Senate: “I just want to unreservedly take back the comments that I made earlier when interjecting, and I apologise to that senator, Senator Hughes, wholeheartedly. That won’t happen again. So I apologise to the senator and also the Senate.”
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