King Charles, Queen Camilla heckled by Australian Lawmaker shouting 'you are not my king'
PTC News Desk: Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been removed from the parliamentary reception that was organized for King Charles and Queen Camilla in Canberra after she hurled anti-colonial slogans at King Charles.
After King Charles ended his speech, Lidia Thorpe walked up the aisle and started yelling at the royal couple and saying 'this is not your land' and 'you are not my king'.
'You stole from us,' she shouted, as officials stepped forward to stop her reaching the stage. King Charles is not the legitimate sovereign of these lands. Any move towards a republic must not continue this injustice. Treaty must play a central role in establishing an independent nation,” Ms Thorpe said.
BREAKING:
The end of King Charles speech has been interrupted by a protest from an indigenous campaigner.
Senator Lidia Thorpe shouted at the stage “you are not our King”, “this is not your land”.
She demanded the King apologise for British atrocities in Australia pic.twitter.com/ZytV8X9OC9 — Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) October 21, 2024
The royal couple encountered several low-key protests during their Australia visit. Australia remains the only Commonwealth country without a treaty with its Indigenous people.Thrope released a statement last week calling for Australia to become a republic and form a treaty with First Nations people. The King and Queen Camilla are on a five-day tour of Australia and King Charles addressed the Great Hall of Parliament House on Monday in one of the most important engagements of his first visit to the country as monarch.
For more than 100 years, Australia has been a british colony during which thousands of Aboriginal Australians were killed and entire communities displaced. In 1999, Australians narrowly voted against removing the queen, amid a row over whether her replacement would be chosen by members of parliament, not the public.
- With inputs from agencies
