#Lidia Thorpe
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ef-1 · 3 months ago
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For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his "historic first tour to the commonwealth realm" i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shouting the following:
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I literally can't even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.
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kropotkindersurprise · 3 months ago
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October 21, 2024 - Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal member of Australia's parliament told King Charles some truths as he was giving a speech in Canberra. [video]
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theiconicmeghanmarkle · 3 months ago
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You are not my King! This is not your land! You committed genocide against out people. Senator Lidia Thorpe to Charles
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brexiiton · 3 months ago
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King Charles heckled by Senator Lidia Thorpe in Parliament house while visiting Australia.
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noddytheornithopod · 1 month ago
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The way parliament has been treating Lidia Thorpe really shows how meaningless respectability politics are, like we're literally acting concerned over the feelings of Australia's most famous bigot just to shut down serious conversations on systemic racism
Like for fuck's sake she was literally sticking up for another senator who was being questioned on her legality as a citizen just because she's Muslim and not born in Australia, and the Senate acts like SHE is the villain????
People can say she should be nicer and civil all they want, but that's the thing about racism and sexism - no matter how nice and polite you act, what you say is going to be disregarded no matter what.
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ingek73 · 3 months ago
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triumph-of-adaptation · 6 months ago
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Aboriginal Senator Lisa Thorpe wears pro-Palestinian and parliament’s midwinter ball
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changing-my-username · 3 months ago
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churropussy · 3 months ago
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This is so badass. I’ve seen some elders say they disapprove because they think it was too aggressive and might turn more people against indigenous people but fuck, this is powerful. This country is racist af anyway so fuck them.
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kimberellaroo · 3 months ago
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Something I've suddenly thought of in light of Lidia Thorpe's protest, and the nature of the pledge of allegiance to King Charles:
Technically, Atheists and non-Christians probably should not be expected to pledge allegiance to a monarch.
The entire existence of a monarchy depends on the concept that a person has been granted the divine right of kings, a right to rule granted by God and backed by the church. In Britain's case, that would be the Anglican church.
Therefore believing Charles has an inherited right to rule requires a belief in a Christian God who bestowed the right upon his family line, and trust in the authority of the Anglican church to confirm his position.
His legal position as head of state in Australia is based on the assumption that he is a king. His position as king is based on a religious assumption.
As a secular state, a secular government, the law should not be dependent on the assumptions of any one religion.
To require elected MPs and Senators to pledge allegiance to a monarch requires them to indirectly acknowledge the authority of a Christian God and church over them, despite personal religious beliefs. Arguably, that's a religious freedom and rights issue.
If the existence of God can be questioned, so too can the existence of kings.
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jackoshadows · 3 months ago
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In light of Lidia Thorpe making the news, here she is being forced to swear allegiance to colonizers and genociders.
It's brutal that the indigenous people of colonized countries, who faced genocide and ethnic cleansing, whose land was stolen, who still face racism and discrimination today have to swear oaths to the colonizers who did that to their people if they want to work in government and are elected to office.
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Also a reminder why countries like Australia, the US and Europe support the settler colonial state of Israel and it's genocide of the Palestinian people. Colonizers love other colonizers in their shared oppression of indigenous people.
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nando161mando · 1 month ago
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archaalen · 3 months ago
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Indigenous Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe intensifies criticism of King Charles III
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meangan-thee-lesbian · 2 years ago
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Y'all Senator Lidia Thorpe is on her straight girl shit again as if her meltdown on the road in front of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras wasn't embarassing enough, today at the Canberra Let Women Speak event she charged at Posie Parker from behind, got pushed over by one of the guards, and when the police tried to help her to her feet she started screaming and crawling away like a pathetic fucking child, and now she's accusing those cops of assaulting her🤦🏻‍♀️ Like, this heterosexual is so fucking embarrassing and everyone just be singing her praises anyway🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
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justloyld · 2 years ago
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Lidia Thorpe should have never been tackled.
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