Dear Is Mise,

How did she lie?

Steele,
She swore an affirmation of allegiance to the late Queen, and admitted by word and deed that she did not mean a word of it; that’s lying and perjury.

Dear Is Mise,

And the Australian Constitution clearly states:

44. Disqualification
Any person who:
(i) is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject
or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power;

The Queen is the head of a foreign power.

So all those traitors who "meant it" should hang their bloody heads in shame and march themselves or be marched right out of parliament.

Only those who have clearly stated they did not mean it should be allowed to stay.

And given the oath is not in the body of the constitution but merely a schedule to it the thing needs to be changed right away. It doesn't need to go to a referendum just a decision made by parliament.

You up for it?

Anyway enough of this rubbish. The tradition of crossing the fingers when taking the oath is not uncommon in the UK. This is Scottish National Party member Steven Bonnar doing just that during swearing in at the House of Commons fter the last election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhWLfEXnME

Hardly the big deal our ultra right types have tried to make it with Thorpe.

Give it away mate, you are flogging a dead horse and coming across as racist and misogynistic.

Keep Lidia on so she Sinks the racist Referendum I say!

Lidia's shenanigans are an asset to we thinking Australians who wish the racist Voice to Parliament REFERENDUM to fail.

Although Lidia is white, she exhibits typical black activist behaviors that turn most people off, eg:

- insisting there be an Aboriginal Treaty and Leftist "Truth Telling" Commission even BEFORE there's a Referendum.

- arguing with hard working and genuine Aboriginal leaders who suggest other approaches

- leading demos through Melbourne in which the Australian FLAG IS BURNT.

- giving Black Power salutes in Federal Parliament. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/01/australian-greens-senator-lidia-thorpe-calls-queen-coloniser-while-being-sworn-into-parliament

- refusing to pledge allegiance in the federal Senate to the Head of State

+++++++++++++++++++++

And worse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia_Thorpe#Senate

"In a speech to Parliament in May 2021, Thorpe commented negatively on new bail laws being introduced into the Northern Territory and assumed that the Attorney-General of the Northern Territory was a white male, when the Attorney-General, Selena Uibo, was an Indigenous woman.[23]

Thorpe criticised the laws as racist, while Uibo countered that Thorpe simply said outrageous things to get on television and was not qualified to speak on the Northern Territory's issues. [24]

In December 2021, Thorpe was accused of telling Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes "at least I keep my legs shut" during a parliamentary session. The Senate had been debating the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and Hughes alleged that Thorpe made the comment in reference to her autistic son. Colleagues of Hughes said that she was left in tears. Thorpe apologised unreservedly on the same day and denied any reference to Hughes's son.[25]"

Go Lidia - Sink the Referendum!

Steele, Grow up and get some moral backbone.

Dear Is Mise,

I assume by moral backbone you want me to join you up on some high horse and bleat about the world coming to an end because a single woman decided not to take the oath of allegiance to heart?

That is just childish and a little pathetic.

I'm not going to get upset because an indigenous person has taken issue with the colonising power. That is their right. Why on earth is it sheep stations for you?