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: “I’m not saying anything different to what the people on the ground are calling for.”
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On 1 February, Myanmar’s military detained the country’s president and put a former army officer serving as vice president in his stead. The new president declared a state of emergency, handing government to the military for the next year. The takeover prevented a new legislature dominated by the National League for Democracy, which won an election last November, from sitting.
The military put the NLD leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, chief ministers of subnational states and territories and others incommunicado since. Protestors and others involved in civil disobedience campaigns, including doctors, teachers and some civil servants, have demanded the military step down and restore civilian government.