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Almost on Instagram: "Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous Australian member of parliament, called Queen Elizabeth a “colonizer” while being sworn into the Australian parliament as a Senator on Aug. 1, 2022. Footage of the moment showed Thorpe, who is of DjabWurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara descent, walking onto the Senate floor with her right first raised above her head. She is then asked to recite the oath written on a card in front of her. “I, sovereign Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely affirm an