An indigenous attorney-general has launched a blistering attack on an inner city Melbourne Greens senator who assumed she was a white man .
During a speech in Canberra on Tuesday, Senator Lidia Thorpe assumed NT Attorney-General Selena Uibo was a man who was hopefully white.
Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman, was delivering a speech about changes to youth bail laws when she made the blunder. I do hope the Attorney-General, given he probably didn t read the royal commission recommendations, hopefully he listens to these experts, she said. Hopefully, they re white. You know, white is right in this place.