‘This country was invaded’: senator defends calling Queen a coloniser. For rolling coverage of today's news, follow our live blog
Speaking of the Greens, Senator Lidia Thorpe – a DjabWurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman – says her tone in taking the oath of allegiance yesterday “was the tone that you use when you really, really, really don’t want to do something and you’re being forced to do it”.
Today’s 3AW interview descended into a fiery debate in which host Neil Mitchell accused Thorpe of being disrespectful and a hypocrite after she said she was part of an “illegitimate” parliament.“To be there with the Black Power salute, sarcastic tone, and in describing the Queen as a coloniser is divisive and destructive at a time where we need a unity of purpose,” Mitchell said.“I suppose what it does is it puts a spotlight on truth-telling,” she said.
In the meantime, the Greens have said they will pursue their own “climate trigger” bill. The draft legislation could force the environment minister to assess the effect on global warming of emissions from polluting projects, such as new coal mines or gas fields.A national plan to respond to the effects of long COVID will soon be part of the federal government’s pandemic response.
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