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The first minister said that he and "so many people of colour have been traduced and vilified merely for raising concerns about how some of these debates have been handled".

He accused senators investigating the UN Oil-for-Food programme of being "cavalier" with justice, saying they had "traduced" his name.

“The government will in no way traduce or criticize the work of the committee who are doing exactly what Parliament has asked them to do.”

Ms Forbes says she does not know if seeing a public figure like her being "absolutely traduced" for her views has made them braver or more fearful.

It’s difficult, she acknowledges, for women “to achieve self-worth” when they have been so often “diminished, traduced, silenced by history.”