Thorpe’s ‘coloniser’ Queen oath out of order as former leaders find backbench - Sydney Morning Herald

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe had to re-do her swearing in after initially referring to the “colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second”.

Indigenous recognition and reconciliation are high on the governments agenda, after a weekend dominated by talk about the Uluru Statement from the Heart and enshrining its proposed Voice in the const… [+1893 chars]

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