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Indigenous senator defends protest action against King Charles
An Indigenous senator who told a visiting King Charles III that Australia is not his land, on Monday vowed to continue "resisting" the country's links to Britain.
Senator Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones.
"Until we have peace, we must continue to resist," she told British broadcaster Sky News in a video call from Melbourne.
No treaty was ever struck between British colonizers and Australia's Indigenous peoples.
“You committed genocide against our people," she shouted earlier in Canberra. “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.”
“This is not your land. You are not my king,” Thorpe yelled as she was ushered from the hall.
She later told Sky that she wanted King Charles to "take some leadership and sit at the table and discuss a treaty with us."
Thorpe is renowned for high-profile protest action.
When she was affirmed as a senator in 2022, she wasn't allowed to describe the then-monarch as “the colonizing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.”
Australians decided in a referendum in 1999 to retain Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
That result is widely regarded to have been the consequence of disagreement about how a president would be chosen rather than majority support for a monarch.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who wants the country to become a republic with an Australian head of state, has ruled out holding another referendum on the subject during his current three-year term in government.
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