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King Charles heckled by Australian senator over land ownership and colonial legacy

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Senator Lidia Thorpe, an independent lawmaker from Victoria, was removed from parliament after she heckled King Charles during his visit to the parliament on Monday. She shouted anti-colonial slogans, including "This is not your country," "You committed genocide against our people," and "Give us our land back." Thorpe also cursed the colony and said "You are not my king." King Charles acknowledged Australia's First Nations people, who lived on the land for tens of thousands of years before the arrival of British settlers over 230 years ago. The incident occurred during a parliamentary reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla.

  1. AU
    Anthony Albanese
    Australian Government
    1. You have shown great respect for Australians, even during times when we have debated the future of our own constitutional arrangements and the nature of our relationship with the Crown.
  2. AU
    Lidia Thorpe
    Independent
    1. We can move towards a Treaty Republic now. The two processes are not opposed, they're complimentary.
    2. I signed up to become a senator in the colonial project, and that wasn't an easy decision for me personally, and it wasn't an easy decision for my family either to support me in this.
    3. You want to paint me as an angry black woman, well you are about to see an angry black woman.
    4. Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!
    5. All of the wealth that he has created for his family has been stolen. He should apologise for taking our land. We need a peace treaty.
    6. How can he stand up there and say he's the King of our country - he's stolen so much wealth from our people and from our land and he needs to give that back. And he needs to entertain a conversation for a peace treaty in this country.
    7. I had no choice in being influenced by black activists and the black struggle of my people … I was born into it and I don't know anything else.
    8. We can lead that, we can do that, we can be a better country - but we cannot bow to the coloniser, whose ancestors he spoke about in there are responsible for mass murder and mass genocide.
  3. AU
    Sue Lines
    Labor Party
    1. Senator Thorpe, Senator Thorpe, you are required to recite the oath as printed on the card.
  4. GB
    Buckingham Palace
    1. Whether Australia becomes a republic is ... a matter for the Australian public to decide.
  5. GB
    King Charles III
    Buckingham Palace
    1. Throughout my life, Australia's First Nations peoples have done me the great honour of sharing so generously their stories and cultures. I can only say how much my own experience has been shaped and strengthened by such traditional wisdom.
    2. Australia has all of the natural ingredients to create a more sustainable regenerative way of living.
    3. By harnessing the power with which nature has endowed the nation, whether it be wind or its famous sunshine, Australia is tracking the path towards a better and safer future. It's in all our interests to be good stewards of the world. And good ancestors to those who come after us.
    4. Throughout my life I have believed in the power of education to improve lives and unite communities across the Commonwealth and beyond.
    5. Let me also say how deeply I appreciated this morning's moving Welcome to Country ceremony, which offers me the opportunity to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet, the Ngunnawal people, and all First Nations peoples who have loved and cared for this continent for 65,000 years.

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sources

  1. 1.The Guardian
  2. 2.The Times of India
  3. 3.BBC
  4. 4.Al Jazeera
  5. 5.CNN
  6. 6.The Times
  7. 7.CTV News
  8. 8.The New York Times
  9. 9.The Washington Post
  10. 10.ABC News
  11. 11.Agence France-Presse
  12. 12.Guardian

perspectives

  1. 1.British Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Protests
  3. 3.British Monarchy
  4. 4.Independence Movements
  5. 5.Australian Foreign Policy
  6. 6.Australia under Anthony Albanese
  7. 7.Commonwealth

countries

  1. 1.AlbaniaAL
  2. 2.AustraliaAU
  3. 3.United KingdomGB
  4. 4.SamoaWS

organizations

  1. 1.First Nations
  2. 2.Green Party
  3. 3.Indigenous Australians
  4. 4.Commonwealth
  5. 5.Gunditjmara
  6. 6.Blak Sovereign Movement
  7. 7.Buckingham PalaceGB
  8. 8.First Peoples
  9. 9.Aboriginal Australians
  10. 10.Association of Commonwealth Universities
  11. 11.Australian Monarchist League
  12. 12.Australian National University

persons

  1. 1.Lidia ThorpeAU
  2. 2.Queen Elizabeth IIGB
  3. 3.Anthony AlbaneseAU
  4. 4.King Charles IIIGB
  5. 5.Peter DuttonAU
  6. 6.Allira Davis
  7. 7.Malarndirri McCarthy
  8. 8.Angus Watson
  9. 9.Auntie Violet Sheridan
  10. 10.CJ Adams
  11. 11.Dean Martin
  12. 12.Dick Smith

technicals

  1. 1.Aboriginal
  2. 2.God Save The King
  3. 3.Torres Strait Island
  4. 4.Australian War Memorial
  5. 5.Victorian
  6. 6.Uluru Dialogue
  7. 7.Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
  8. 8.Sydney Opera House
  9. 9.Anglicanism
  10. 10.Genocide
  11. 11.Mardi Gras
  12. 12.NAIDOC Week