Indigenous senator brands Queen Elizabeth II a colonizer during oath of office
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Senator Lidia Thorpe made the remark during her swearing-in, in which she was meant to pledge allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II, Australia's head of state.
An Indigenous senator caused a stir in Australia’s Parliament after she added a few choice words to an official oath while being sworn into office.
Senator Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal woman of DjabWurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara descent, labelled Queen Elizabeth II a “colonizing” queen on Monday during a swearing-in oath in which she was meant to pledge her allegiance to the British monarch.
When the Greens senator was called to take her oath of office, she walked with her right fist held high in a Black Power salute. She begrudgingly swore to serve Britain’s queen, who still remains the head of state to a number of former British colonies, including Australia and Canada.
In protest, Thorpe recited the oath as, “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonizing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” before she was cut off by a senate official.
“Senator Thorpe, Senator Thorpe, you are required to recite the oath as printed on the card,” said the chamber’s president Sue Lines.
A senate colleague can also be heard on video yelling, “You’re not a senator if you don’t do it properly,” to Thorpe.
Thorpe eventually recited the oath as written, omitting “the colonizing” on her second read.
After the incident, Thorpe declared on Twitter: “Sovereignty never ceded.”
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