Outspoken senator Lidia Thorpe says she was provoked into an expletive-laden altercation that was filmed outside a Melbourne club.

The footage was captured on the footpath outside Maxine’s Gentlemen’s Club in Brunswick at 3am on Sunday.

Senator Thorpe was reportedly leaving a friend’s 50th birthday celebration when the stoush took place.

“You know what I say, to you, you know what I say to you and you …” she said to a group of people outside the club, in the footage aired by Seven News.

“… small penis, small penis.”

One of the men replied, “You’re a racist dog”.

Senator Thorpe was pulled away from the group by a companion, but she continued: “All I’ve got to say to the black brothers there and anyone that we’re fighting”.

“Any black man that stands with the f—— white little c— like that, youse can all get f—– too.”

Before Senator Thorpe left the club, she appeared to pull out her mobile phone and start recording the men still lingering on the footpath.

“You, you are marked,” she said.

Senator Thorpe issued a statement on Sunday night saying she had been provoked and harassed.

“It’s sad people are using whatever they can to drag me down when we’re trying to discuss important issues in this country,” the statement read.

In March, Senator Thorpe was pulled to the ground by police after she attempted to intervene in a protest organised by anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minsull (aka Posie Parker) outside Parliament House in Canberra.

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