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What are message sticks? Senator Lidia Thorpe continues a long and powerful diplomatic tradition

Written by Piers Kelly, Linguistic anthropologist, University of New England

This week, newly appointed Greens senator Lidia Thorpe entered the chamber with one fist raised. In her other hand, she carried a large message stick with 441 carefully painted marks.

The lines represented each of the First Nations people who have died under police supervision since the 1991 Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody. The first...

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