Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Well, happy assimilation day! Sovereignty has never been ceded, but, for the first time in this country's history, people are starting to talk about sovereignty and what that actually means. Recognising First Peoples' sovereignty in this country will dissolve this colonial, violent institution that we're all in right now, and that's why you won't acknowledge sovereignty in the racist Australian Constitution. That's why the Greens voted it down—and the hypocrisy of climate! This is a colonial institution with colonial laws. I'm here—yes, I'm here—to infiltrate it, to rattle the cages and to destroy the white supremacy that is represented in this place.