Australian Indigenous Senator Lydia Thorpe He had to repeat his inauguration oath as a congressman because he referred Queen Isabel II, officially the head of state of Australia”colonialist“.
Australian press, “You won’t be a senator until you get it right!” A senator snapped after Thorpe was sworn in by the Senate president to repeat the inauguration formula.
The environmental senator took office alone Monday morning, as he did not attend last week’s official inauguration ceremony. Raising her fist, she went to the podium and read the following statement: “I, Lidia Thorpe, solemnly and sincerely solemnly swear, I will be faithful and Her Majesty Queen Queen II. I will show true devotion to Elizabeth.”
Senate President Labor Sue Lines intervened to stop the angry criticism from other senators. “You must read the oath written on the card. Please, read it.” Thorpe later confronted another Labor senator for his criticism, but eventually read the sentence as it was written. “Neither of us liked it,” snapped it after another senator was sworn in.
Thorpe later wrote on Twitter: “I never gave up sovereignty”Thorpe had recently criticized the Australian flag for “representing the colonization of these lands”.
His intention is to go to Parliament to “question the illegitimate occupation of the colonial system in this country”. “I am here for my people, and I will sacrifice myself, swearing allegiance to the colonialist, to be able to be in the media as I am now, to enter the Parliament as I am,” he said.