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It is advised to always keep lorikeets and lories seperate from any other species due to their aggressive natures and specialised diet. Lorikeets eating seeds can cause many problems, lower the lifespan and such :(
Also, if you're planning on breeding- it might not happen because the smaller species won't feel safe with such a large competitor constantly around the nest site. The lorikeets may also kill the eggs or babies which is devastating!
If it's your only aviary I'd say to just leave it, but if you have another I'd seperate them.
When I was around ten my mum bought me an aviary (I had a large collection of caged birds and she thought they would love some flying room!) I had one rainbow lorikeet, two cockatiels, three budgies and two quails to let roam! They all got along relatively well- the lorikeet was very bossy and dominated the nest box area and ate some seed though. Soon I got some finches as well! hehe. In the end, the budgies successfully bred and had three babies and the finches only managed egg laying. The cockatiels never bred and the lorikeet spent his time looking in all the nest boxes but never doing anything! I may have just been lucky. It all depends on the birds. Mine were all pretty mellow :D
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