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Did Lidia Thorpe break her pledge of allegiance?

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Earlier this week, Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe disrupted a ceremony for the King and Queen, speaking for nearly a minute about the King being a l-genocidalist, calling for land to be returned to First Nations communities and asking for a Treaty. In the days since, Thorpe has been accused of breaching the pledge of allegiance she took when she entered Parliament. Only Thorpe doesn’t think so, because she’s claiming a bit of wordplay meant she didn’t actually make the pledge.

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