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“You Are Not Our King!”: Aboriginal Australian Lawmaker Lidia Thorpe Confronts King Charles

HeadlineOct 21, 2024

In Australia, Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe was removed by force from a Parliament event after she heckled King Charles following his speech to Australian lawmakers. Lidia Thorpe confronted the British royal as she walked toward him, decrying, “You are not our king!”

Sen. Lidia Thorpe: “You are not our king! You are not sovereign! 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! You destroyed our land!”

Other protests against King Charles’s visit were held today. Australia’s Indigenous peoples never ceded sovereignty after their land was colonized by Britain, and have never signed a treaty with the U.K.

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