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'You are not my king,' Indigenous Australian senator yells at visiting King Charles
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'You are not my king,' Indigenous Australian senator yells at visiting King Charles

  • An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia's parliament. Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple Monday after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who wants the country to become a republic with an Australian head of state, made only an oblique reference to the issue in his speech welcoming the monarch, but the heads of all six of Australia's states declined invitations to a reception with the royals, citing more pressing engagements.

An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia's parliament. Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple Monday after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who wants the country to become a republic with an Australian head of state, made only an oblique reference to the issue in his speech welcoming the monarch, but the heads of all six of Australia's states declined invitations to a reception with the royals, citing more pressing engagements.

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