Lidia Thorpe and the Greens: How did it come to this?

Tension in the Greens over the Voice to Parliament has culminated this week in the abrupt defection of high-profile Senator Lidia Thorpe.Publicly, Greens leader Adam Bandt is calling her resignation ‘sad’. Privately, other Greens members are reportedly calling it a catastrophe.As for Lidia Thorpe, the newly-Independent Senator says her focus now will be on representing a grassroots Blak sovereign movement — and she hasn’t said whether or not that means supporting a Voice to Parliament.Today, chief political correspondent at The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton on what happened in the days leading up to the resignation, and what it means for the government — and the Greens. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and InstagramGuest: Chief political correspondent at The Saturday Paper, Karen Middleton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.