Greens appoint Dorinda Cox as First Nations spokesperson to replace Lidia Thorpe

Cox, a Yamatji-Noongar woman, has been handed the job as the party campaigns for a yes vote in the upcoming voice to parliament referendum.

Thorpe announced last Monday she was quitting the party to champion the Blak sovereignty movement. While the Victorian senator is yet to announce her final position on the voice to parliament, she has been critical of the process and is campaigning for progress on treaty and truth before the voice to parliament.

The Greens federal leader, Adam Bandt, said Cox was the right person to help guide the party on First Nations issues.

Cox initiated a Senate inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children in November 2021, which is due to report back in July.

A former WA police officer, Cox said she was guided by her communities.