An Australian senator has referred to Queen Elizabeth as a “coloniser” in a show of defiance while swearing an oath of allegiance to the British monarch.
A video of the oath has gone viral after Lidia Thorpe, a First Nations Greens member of the Australian senate, was told to recite the words as they were written in order to be sworn into the house.
During the swearing in, Thorpe approached the dispatch box in the senate house with her fist raised in a symbol of resistance.
