Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe forced to redo oath of allegiance after Senate president interjects and others voice criticism

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Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe was told to repeat the oath of allegiance for Australian parliamentarians on Monday after she initially described the Queen as a coloniser.

Thorpe, a Greens senator for Victoria, was chided by her parliamentary colleagues, one of whom yelled, You're not a senator if you don't do it properly."