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A reception of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the Parliament House in Canberra has been interrupted by an obscene rant from an indigenous Australian lawmaker.

After the British monarch finished his address to the gathering on Monday, independent Senator Lidia Thorpe stepped forward and confronted him.

“You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us back what you stole from us: Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land,” she shouted.

The lawmaker, who was wearing a native fur cloak, demanded that a treaty be agreed with First Nations peoples. Australia remains one the few countries in the British Commonwealth that has not signed an agreement between the state and the indigenous peoples. “Give us a treaty, we want a treaty in this country,” she said.

“This is not your land, you are not my king” and “f**k the colony,” Thorpe shouted while being escorted out of the hall by security.

The Daily Mail reported that King Charles and Queen Camilla were seen “laughing off” the senator’s demands.

Earlier in the day, Thorpe, an advocate for indigenous sovereignty, took part in a protest outside the Australian War Memorial, which was visited by the royals. The lawmaker reportedly had a brief altercation with police and barely avoided arrest.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the royal couple that the people in the country have great respect for them. “Your majesties are very welcome here,” he said.

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott accused Thorpe of engaging in “unfortunate political exhibitionism,” according to SBS News.

According to the Australian Museum, there were at least 270 massacres carried out by the colonists against Aboriginal Australians between the late 18th and early 20th century “as part of a state-sanctioned and organised attempts to eradicate First Nations people.” Due to those actions, the indigenous population in Australia reduced from an estimated 1-1.5 million to less than 100,000 by the early 1900s, it said.

https://www.rt.com/news/606012-king-charles-australia-thorpe/

 

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not aware?.....

Independent senator Lidia Thorpe's protest at a reception for King Charles III was "grandstanding" and "failed miserably", according to frontbenchers on both sides of parliament.

But on Q+A on Monday night, one First Nations man challenged politicians to listen to her message, asking in the wake of the failed Voice referendum: "What do Indigenous people have left?"

"After the recent history, or the last year at least, how can we find this audience with the monarch, in particular, to effect that change," said Daniel Williams during a taping of Q+A at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

Throughout last year's Indigenous Voice referendum, the monarchy provided no comment toward the proposal, Indigenous self-determination, or the effects of colonialism linked to their lineage."

Senator Thorpe was escorted out of Parliament House's Great Hall after yelling "you are not our king" and "this is not your land" to King Charles and Queen Camilla, who sat a few metres away with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

"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 Senator Thorpe, who is Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung.

Mr Williams, a descendant of the Gureng Gureng people in Bundaberg and the Meriam Mer people of the Eastern Torres Strait, asked the panel what their position was on the "repatriation of Indigenous remains and return of artefacts to country".

"I do believe it was an important issue, still affecting Indigenous Australians. We're talking about 200 years of pain that is continuing to be unanswered and unresolved," he said.

Employment Minister Murray Watt and opposition frontbencher Susan McDonald offered to take the issue up — but both argued Senator Thorpe had done her cause no favours.

"She was grandstanding and that wasn't a productive way to prosecute the issue," Senator McDonald said.

"We had the opportunity to have a forum to showcase Australia's parliament. We had a lot of people who've really contributed to Australia in a whole lot of ways, and they were there and should have had the opportunity to talk about their issues."

Senator Watt told Q+A he was "not aware until this very moment that this is the issue that Lydia was raising today".

"I don't think it worked. I don't think it got the message through to anyone in the room," he said.

"If the idea was to raise the issue with the people who were in the room, I think it failed miserably."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-21/lidia-thorpe-king-ceremony-protest-indigenous-rights/104358316

 

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