CP-Web. Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a Parliamentary reception hosted by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Jaydon at Parliament House in Canberra,, Australia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.Photo by Lukas Coch/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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

Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers had taken Indigenous land

· National Post

An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia’s parliament on Monday.

Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers had taken Indigenous land and bones.

“You committed genocide against our people,” she shouted. “Give us what you stole from us — our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty.”