An Indigenous Senator has described the acknowledgment of country as “lip service” as she vowed to “smash the racial stereotype” that Aboriginal Australians should toe the progressive line. 
Australia’s acknowledgment of country is a practice where an individual pays respect to Aboriginal people, country, culture and heritage, and is usually done at the beginning of a meeting, speech, and event. 
But Liberal Senator Jacinta Price questioned why it singled out Aboriginals instead of paying respect to all Australians. She argued that the acknowledgment has been constantly repeated to the point it becomes “lip service” and “a real divisiveness.” 
“I don’t feel there’s a real genuine sort of, you know, sentiment behind it but more like we want to be seen as being non-racist,” she told Sky News on Tuesday. “Nobody’s really learning anything deeper or going beyond anything like that.”…