Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month. The censure of independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe is ...
Ms Payman will now join the crossbench as an independent senator. The 29-year-old Muslim lawmaker, whose family fled Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban in 1996, is Australia’s first and ...
"He is not of this land." Thorpe, who is an independent senator from Victoria, is among those who have advocated for a treaty between Australia’s government and its first inhabitants. Unlike New ...
When Fatima Payman was first elected to Australia’s senate, she didn’t imagine she’d go to war with the prime minister two years later. Back in May, the country’s first hijabi lawmaker broke ranks ...
Australia's Senate on Monday censured an Indigenous woman parliamentarian over her protest against King Charles during his visit to the parliament last month when she accused the British monarch of ...
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian senators on Monday voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month. The censure of ...
Australian Independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe gestures during a censure motion against her in the senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP) ...