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    Home - Australia - Australian senator Lidia Thorpe explains furious outburst after King Charles’s speech
    Australia Updated:October 22, 2024

    Australian senator Lidia Thorpe explains furious outburst after King Charles’s speech

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    Australian senator Lidia Thorpe explains furious outburst after King Charles’s speech

    Australian senator Lidia Thorpe explains furious outburst after King Charles’s speech – Royal family news

    The Indigenous senator who confronted King Charles has spoken out to explain why she shouted at him after his parliamentary adress.

    Senator Lidia Thorpe told the monarch “you are not my king” and demanded a treaty between Australia‘s First Nations and its government on Monday.

    Ms Thorpe, an Indigenous woman from Victoria, has long advocated for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians to recognise their autonomy and set right historical wrongs.

    The independent politician has now said that as current King, Charles should “answer for” the “thousands of massacre sites” in Australia.

    She told Sky News hours after her appearance at parliament: “We have our bones and our skulls still in his possession – or in his family’s possession. We want that back.

    “We want our land back and we want your King to take some leadership and sit at the table and discuss a treaty with us.”

    Charles and Camilla have faced low-key protests during their tour of Australia from supporters of First Nations resistance to colonisation, who have been displaying a banner with the word “decolonise” at a number of events.

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    Full story: King Charles heckled by Australian senator shouting ‘you are not my king’

    As he finished his speech, senator Lidia Thorpe approached the stage and shouted for around 30 seconds, saying “this is not your country”.

    “You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us – our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people,” said Ms Thrope, an outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights.

    Senator Lidia Thorpe shares beheaded King Charles cartoon on Instagram after monarchy heckle

    An Australian senator who confronted King Charles in parliament has shared a cartoon showing the monarch beheaded on social media.

    Lidia Thorpe, 51, an outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights, shouted at the King in a fiery address during his royal reception in Great Hall of Parliament House on Monday.

    She approached the stage shouting “you are not my king” and accusing the King of “committing genocide against our people”, as she urged him to negotiate treaty between Australia‘s First Nations and its government.

    After her protest, the independent politician took to social media to further reiterate her position, sharing a cartoon showing a beheaded King Charles to her Instagram story.

    The original post, shared by artist Matt Chun, was captioned with Thorpe’s words she directed at the King earlier on Monday: “You are not our king. You are not sovereign.”

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    Lidia Thorpe says royal family still has Indigenous ‘bones and skulls’

    The Indigenous senator who confronted King Charles has spoken out once more to claim that the “bones and skulls” of Aboriginal people are still in possession of the royal family.

    She told Sky News hours after her appearance at parliament: “We have our bones and our skulls still in his possession, or in his family’s possession. We want that back.

    “We want our land back and we want your King to take some leadership and sit at the table and discuss a treaty with us.”

    Who is the Australian senator who confronted King Charles?

    Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has made headlines around the world after denouncing King Charles following his Parliament House reception speech.

    Ms Thorpe, an Indigenous woman from Victoria, has long advocated for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians to recognise their autonomy and set right historical wrongs.

    Ms Thorpe, a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung mother, grandmother, is a well-known activist for Indigenous causes. Her recent actions, however, have been described as her most high-profile protest to date.

    She became the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Victorian state parliament with Green Party in 2017. While her seat was subsequently lost in 2018, she was preselected to be a senator for the party in the federal government in 2020.

    At the time of her swearing into parliament in 2020, she raised her hand in a black power salute. She did so while wearing a traditional possum-skin cloak and holding an Aboriginal message stick.

    The stick was covered in 441 marks to represent the deaths of Aboriginal people known to have died following the 1991 royal commission into deaths in custody.

    She protested again in 2022 upon her re-election, describing the late Queen Elizabeth II “the colonising Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II” in her oath. Ms Thorpe was then forced to recite her oath again using the correct words.

    The causes championed by Ms Thorpe on behalf of Indigenous Australians include the reform of the prison and justice systems, environmental issues and land rights.

    Full story: King Charles heckled by Australian senator shouting ‘you are not my king’

    As he finished his speech, senator Lidia Thorpe approached the stage and shouted for around 30 seconds, saying “this is not your country”.

    “You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us – our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people,” said Ms Thrope, an outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights.

    Watch moment King Charles heckled by Australian senator Lidia Thorpe: ‘You are not my King’

    This is the moment senator Lidia Thorpe heckles King Charles during a reception in Australia’s parliament.

    The monarch had just finished addressing lawmakers in Canberra on Monday when Ms Thorpe shouted “This is not your land. You are not my King.”

    She continued raising her voice in protest, saying “Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us! Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people.

    “You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty!”

    Security stopped Ms Thorpe from getting close and ushered her out of the chamber as the King turned to talk to prime minister Anthony Albanese.

    King Charles heckled by Australian senator: ‘Give us our land back’

    Prime minister praises King’s ‘fantastic’ work in Australia despite cancer

    The British prime minister has praised the King’s “fantastic” work during his Australia tour despite facing cancer.

    Sir Keir Starmer made the comments after Charles was berated by Australian senator Lidia Thorpe, who accused the King of “genocide” against her nation’s indigenous people.

    “I think the King is doing a fantastic job, an incredible ambassador, not just for our country, but across the Commonwealth,” Sir Keir said on Monday.

    “We should remember in the context of health, that he is out there doing his public service notwithstanding, you know, the health challenges he himself has had – so I think he’s doing a great job,” he added.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/king-charles-heckled-lidia-thorpe-australia-speech-latest-news-b2633196.html

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    David Pike is an experienced news journalist with over 20 years experience as a UK News editor for WTX News and other news publications.

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