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      <title>Australian senator Lidia Thorpe heckles King Charles, sparks controversy over protest</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has defended her heckling of King Charles during his address at Parliament House, accusing him of genocide and asserting that ‘he’s not of this land.’&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“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,” she told &lt;em&gt;BBC&lt;/em&gt; after the protest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thorpe, an Aboriginal Australian, interrupted the ceremony in Canberra, shouting for approximately a minute before being removed by security.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thorpe from Victoria has been a vocal advocate for a treaty between the Australian government and its Indigenous peoples.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unlike New Zealand and other former British colonies, Australia has never established such a treaty. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people assert that they never surrendered their sovereignty or land to the Crown.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“He [King Charles] is not sovereign. We are sovereign. To be sovereign, you have to be off the land. He is not of this land. We have been demanding a treaty for decades and decades.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also, read this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;She called on the King to instruct the Parliament to discuss a peace treaty with the First Peoples.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“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.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In contrast, Aboriginal elder Aunty Violet Sheridan, who welcomed the King and Queen earlier in the event, criticised Thorpe’s actions as “disrespectful,” stating, “She does not speak for me.”&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has defended her heckling of King Charles during his address at Parliament House, accusing him of genocide and asserting that ‘he’s not of this land.’</strong></p>
<p>“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,” she told <em>BBC</em> after the protest.</p>
<p>Thorpe, an Aboriginal Australian, interrupted the ceremony in Canberra, shouting for approximately a minute before being removed by security.</p>
<p>Thorpe from Victoria has been a vocal advocate for a treaty between the Australian government and its Indigenous peoples.</p>
<p>Unlike New Zealand and other former British colonies, Australia has never established such a treaty. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people assert that they never surrendered their sovereignty or land to the Crown.</p>
<p>“He [King Charles] is not sovereign. We are sovereign. To be sovereign, you have to be off the land. He is not of this land. We have been demanding a treaty for decades and decades.”</p>
<p><strong>Also, read this</strong></p>
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<p>She called on the King to instruct the Parliament to discuss a peace treaty with the First Peoples.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>In contrast, Aboriginal elder Aunty Violet Sheridan, who welcomed the King and Queen earlier in the event, criticised Thorpe’s actions as “disrespectful,” stating, “She does not speak for me.”</p>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:36:07 +0500</pubDate>
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        <media:title>Lidia Thorpe, an outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights, shouted at the King during his royal reception in Great Hall of Parliament House on October 21, 2024. Reuters
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