Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe entered the Parliament’s Senate chamber with a black power salute and proceeded to disrespect the oath she was obliged to recite before being allowed to take her seat.

‘I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second,’ she said, in a mocking tone, before being told by the President of the Senate, Sue Lines, that she must recite the oath as printed on the card.