Speaking of the Greens, Senator Lidia Thorpe – a DjabWurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman – says her tone in taking the oath of allegiance yesterday “was the tone that you use when you really, really, really don’t want to do something and you’re being forced to do it”.
Today’s 3AW interview descended into a fiery debate in which host Neil Mitchell accused Thorpe of being disrespectful and a hypocrite after she said she was part of an “illegitimate” parliament.“To be there with the Black Power salute, sarcastic tone, and in describing the Queen as a coloniser is divisive and destructive at a time where we need a unity of purpose,” Mitchell said.“I suppose what it does is it puts a spotlight on truth-telling,” she said.
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Your father was British. You're half 'invader'? Cognitive dissonance much?
Alright then, give your house to an aboriginal family, go live in the bush and don’t step foot in the senate again.
When a gatecrasher invites someone to a party they are also a gatecrasher.Are all non Indigenous living in Australia colonising invaders? smh auspol SenatorThorpe
Yep
No respect ........ both ways
kick her out she is a traitor we want our votes back
Jesus Christ. Get over it.
So who represents the dinosaurs then.......
Childish theatre.
International embarrassment
You can't have a 'colony' without being a 'coloniser'. That's how words work.
Ok, the country was invaded. NOW apologize and MOVE ON.... didn't she watch the Pope's visit to Canada? show ALL Australians what is it that she is capable of achieving.... if anything!
The country was invaded yes - by the very ancestors of the current aboriginal population , if youre going to go on about invading get the story straight
Just as every other country has been, but hey, they got over it and got together to make it better.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
First day at the job, she’s already making enemies. 😂
The Nation was built on 1778 and the arrival of the written word. Forged by its colonial arrivals. It’s laws were formed and a proud Nation founded.
This country was invade and the first people used slave to getting invaders very rich, kicked out of they land,first people were murder by England invaders? The Queen is not good for ordinary disadvantaged humans being, it's costs too much and has no value ?
Disgraceful behaviour.
She stated a fact.
I’d honestly like to know what she thinks an alternate history would have looked like. Some paradise of 150 “first Nations’ societies living in peace and harmony? Or perhaps colonisation by the Spanish or Chinese would have been more to her liking?
She can leave and move to another Country
Lydia, you’re the Australian version of Marjorie Taylor Greene. You’re an extremist.
The Queen didn’t colonise anything it was her great great great great grandfather George 111 who colonised this country.
What a joke! why is she there! what a weirdo!
I doubt she’d be standing their insulting the people she is supposed to be representing if the British had not. Why is she even there ? Who does she represent? Why are we paying for this senator to sit and divide Australia? Why? This is not helping indigenous communities one bit.
She is correct. 9NewsAUS SBS AboriginalPress queen auspol
Luck for her ancestors it’s was the queens servants got her before the French. That would not have ended well for the inhabitants.
If you don't like the system into which you were elected Lidia, just resign & give up your taxpayer funded fat salary.
Clearly she is right.
If the present Queen who was only coronated in 1956 is a coloniser, than so are you Lydia Thorpe dear. So, which country do you plan to move to? auspol
Any Greens voters/members giving up there properties to the local indigenous nation Offer to pay rent Hypocrites.
So
I support a Republic but in regards to Colonialism, most of the world was invaded and settled by foreign powers at one point in time, like it or not that's history and we can't change history we can only vote for a Republic.
Obviously not a serious politician. No diplomacy. Will be an embarrassment to others who are trying to create a better life for ALL Australians.
It's what we teach at school. Facts are facts, unless we want to hide something.
Would she rather the Spanish or Portuguese colonized Australia. They would have enslaved and eliminated most of the natives.
Lol
As a Celtic Brit I am still trying to deal with the emotional damage from the Roman invasion of the British Isles 1500 years ago. Every time I drive down the motorway through Hadrian’s Wall I need to pull over and compose myself, it’s extremely traumatic.
Her white ancestors were in on the act.
And so many of us are it seems including some that played a part in the senators existence & also many if not most of those she represents in the parliament. smh auspol
Simplistic gestures like this don’t help. First, it’s a free kick for many to say ‘the Queen wasn’t alive in 1788’ (true but disingenuous). Second it implies that if we were a republic the underlying challenges for First Nations people would disappear (untrue and disingenuous)
100% correct.
Yes, it's well known countries in Aust were invaded & some suffered genocide at the hands of settler colonials where colony govt turned a blind eye to extreme crimes against the Indigenous population. Some history is so brutal it could cause harm to teach it in full in schools.
Good work.
Um, we know the Queen is old love, but she wasn't in the first landing. I'm sorry but I can't take her seriously, I will try but it's not looking good right now. P.S. I will vote YES because of the other F.N. members who are more gracious and sensible.
Queen wasn't alive when Aussie was Colonised, and thats exactly what Australia was... a Colony. Is Coloniser some kind of dirty word now?
Queen was not even born that time ..the natives that time were living like Stone Age dwellers - tribals ? Correct me if I am wrong .. is she following the WW2 dictator salute ..
She is also Queen of Tax havens watch those who benefit protect the queen
Hate to tell you Lidia but Queen Elizabeth II did not colonise Australia.
She is correct
How far do we go back .
What a grandstanding self-promoter.
Does she even look slightly indigenous Not to me. We have given women, as we should, equality but some abuse it in extreme ways. I will bet she has no workable solutions to the major issues of aborigines including school attendance, alcohol and violence.
So was England, cannot change history
SMH providing a list of racists to block 🔒 on twitter.
All founded land was invaded at some point.
Aboriginals want a voice not an angry tirade. Lidia Thorpe is the voice of division when calm heads need to prevail.
And yet you still swore allegiance to her. What does that make you sweetie?
idk I don't think the queen is entirely to blame for this one
The history of the British Empire is a sinful history of aggression, oppression, humiliation, exploitation, cruel rule and endless misery against weak and small countries. This is a crystal clear fact.
Every migrant has agreed with that to be here.
It’s simple, if she can’t take the pledge she has no right to sit in the parliament.
Every country has been invaded. Get over it.
Considering it was invaded in the reign of George III she’s out of order.
She’s right!
If any white Australian promoted whites rule would be in huge trouble different story if a coloured person does it.