Indigenous Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe on Monday called Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a coloniser and swore allegiance resentfully while taking the oath of office as the recently elected lawmaker.
The 96-year-old Queen is Australia’s head of state and Thorpe resentfully swore allegiance to the queen by raising her right fist in a Black Power salute as a mark of protest.
Greens Senator Thorpe said, “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.
However, she was immediaty asked to take oath as written on the card by the chamber’s president, Sue Lines.
"Senator Thorpe, Senator Thorpe, you are required to recite the oath as printed on the card," said Sue Lines.
Thorpe then had to redo her oath of allegiance in the Senate after prefixing the Queen as a "coloniser". After reciting the pledge as required.
Later, Thorpe posted a tweet saying, "Sovereignty never ceded.”
