Justice Munir’s infamous invocation of “necessity” is seen as a watershed moment in the constitutional history of Pakistan. But the groundwork for using the narrative of an exceptional situation to ...

Indigenous Australian senator, Lidia Thorpe, referred to the Queen as a "coloniser" while being sworn into Australia's parliament. The Senate president stopped the Greens senator for Victoria and ...

The allegation that Israel is a “colonizer” has really taken root among the ignorant and indoctrinated, so it’s time to nail the myth – and not just because the idea of Jews as colonisers is utterly ...

When called to do the oath, Senator Thorpe stood and walked to the front of the chamber with her fist raised, which she kept up while reading the oath. “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and ...

A video of the oath has gone viral after Lidia Thorpe, a First Nations Greens member of the Australian senate, was told to recite the words as they were written in order to be sworn into the house Get ...

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This is the moment a man was allegedly caught writing "coloniser" on the poster of a hostage kidnapped by Hamas. Police have launched an investigation into the footage, which was taken yesterday ...