'You are not my King': Australian protester interrupts King Charles

The King has been berated by an Australian senator who accused the monarchy of “genocide” against her nation’s indigenous people and declared: “You are not my king”.

Lidia Thorpe, who campaigns on First Nations issues, disrupted Charles’s welcome to the capital Canberra with her outburst which overshadowed a speech by the King highlighting his debt to the descendants of Australia’s first inhabitants.

After the King spoke to guests at Parliament House, Ms Thorpe, who wore a possum skin coat and carried a traditional message stick, shouted: “You are not our King, you are not sovereign … you have committed genocide against our people.

“Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us … Our babies, our people. You destroyed our land.”

As she was gently ushered from the building’s hall, she screamed: “Give us a treaty – we want a treaty with this country … This is not your land, this is not your land, you are not my King, you are not our King.”

It is understood the King was unruffled and did not let the outburst overshadow what the royal party viewed as a positive day in the Australian capital.

The senator told BBC News afterwards: “I wanted to send a clear message to the King of England that he is not the king of this country.

“He is not my king. He is not sovereign. We are sovereign. To be sovereign, you have to be of the land. He is not of this land.”

In a speech before Charles’s address, the prime minister said to Charles: “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.

“Nothing stands still.”

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[geneleonardmedhurst]

He wants to get back here show some back bone and sort this government out

[RaquelGarcia-fjpk]

She is an Australia Senator Lidia Thorpe 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[kumbawithey]

Why doesn’t this woman shouting ask the Australian government to give the land back?,

[petercoyne]

She’s right! He’s not my ‘king’ either…

[TerryBrown-nt]

Good for her if she finds away to ditch these two please let Scotland know .

[davidanderson]

NOT my king either!, this excuse for royalty is a WEF stooge!, his mother would be ashamed of him!

[andrewgreen]

Lives 10000 miles away and is about as Australian as a bratwurst... So she's obviously correct. Having a head of state who is not from your country is ridiculous.

[sdaobamna]

love how the title just says 'protester' and not senator

[bibiwooz]

Brave lady telling the truth?
Has he done as nothing to stop the Genocide, and flewn to Australia?

[rottenbeggar]

Not my king'either! Just a WEF PUPPET!

[Emtbtoday]

He's just laughing to he doesn't give a damb about anything or anyone never has!

[samibaozilover]

Lol good on her, abolish the monarchy.

[AlbPerNil]

I agree with this woman, not my king and never will be.

[obaidjilani]

Brilliant. I live in the UK and he is NOT my king either

[ghst]

Brave lady we need more people like her in this world

[ajdesmond]

He’s not a proper king he is not noble to his people not my king

[brainstormingsharing]

Millions of people agree with her! So based on that, she is right that he is not her king and therefore not the king of hundreds of millions of others!!!

[JuniperTheMischievous]

Isnt she a part of that colonialists? Then leave Australia to aboriginal people.

[chrislaurenceleo]

He is even more disliked in Oz than in the UK

[paulcooper]

I am British and he is not my king. I am not one of his subjects!!