Melbourne, Australia The image is striking.
Draped in a possum-skin cloak Senator Lidia Thorpe entered her first day in the Australian Federal parliament last September with her right fist raised in a Black Power salute.
In her left hand, she carried a stick engraved with 441 stripes representing the number of Indigenous people to die in custody since a landmark Royal Commission in 1991.
Thorpe tells Al Jazeera she raised her fist as a sign of resistance and as a sign of our struggle and in solidarity with Black people across the world.
She also described the responsibility as carrying the voice of my people into a place which denied our rights for so long and confirmed her intent: Im not saying anything different to what the people on…
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