Greens senator Lidia Thorpe had to re-do her swearing in after initially referring to the “colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second” | katinacurtis
Parliament is dealing with some heavy questions about Australia’s history and traditions but no one expected to debate whether the Queen was a coloniser during what should have been a routine bit of administration.
Clad in black, Thorpe approached the centre of the Senate chamber with her fist raised in the air to make the affirmation of allegiance. Ahead of her first swearing in, in October 2020, Thorpe said her community wasn’t excited about that moment because she would beOver the weekend, Assistant Minister for the Republic Matt Thistlethwaite said it was “archaic and ridiculous” that MPs
In the lower house, there were no hitches in the swearing-in of erstwhile prime minister Scott Morrison and former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce.
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