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By Praveen Menon and Anna Mehler Paperny SYDNEY/TORONTO (Reuters) – When newly elected indigenous Australian parliamentarian Lidia Thorpe took her oath to office last month, she raised her fist above her head in protest and labelled Queen Elizabeth II a “colonising queen”. “It was like kneeling to the murderer,” the Greens senator told Reuters this week. “I had to swear my allegiance to a colonising power that has caused so much harm to our people.” The death of Queen Elizabeth has led First Nations people from Canada to Australia and former colonies in the Caribbean to speak about their pain …