1 week Ago By David Crowe
A protest over Indigenous rights has disrupted a parliamentary reception for King Charles III and Queen Camilla after Victorian independent senator Lidia Thorpe told the monarch he was not her king. Senator Thorpe strode up the central aisle of the Great Hall of Parliament House wearing a possum cloak after the King’s address to the reception to tell him she did not accept his sovereignty. Senator Lidia Thorpe marches to the front of the Great Hall, yelling ‘you are not my king!’ Credit: David Crowe “It’s not your land, you’re not my king, you’re not our king,” she shouted.
Thorpe could also be heard yelling: “Give us our land back. Give us what we deserve. Just stop.
Our babies, our people. You destroyed our land.” The senator was spotted earlier outside the Australian War Memorial, pulling away from a police officer.
King Charles turned to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and talked quietly on the podium of the Great Hall as security moved to prevent Senator Thorpe approaching the monarch. As security staff escorted Senator Thorpe out, the royal couple prepared to talk to some of the guests at the event. Several hundred people had gathered in the Great Hall of Parliament House to welcome King Charles III and Queen Camilla to a parliamentary reception hosted by Albanese and his partner, Jodie Haydon.
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