Australian senator calls the Queen a 'coloniser'
Lidia Thorpe was asked to start the oath of allegiance again and to only read the words put in front of her.
Indigenous Australian senator, Lidia Thorpe, referred to the Queen as a "coloniser" while being sworn into Australia's parliament.
The Senate president stopped the Greens senator for Victoria and as… [+126 chars]
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