Senator Lidia Thorpe interrupted King Charles‘ address at Parliament.
‘You committed genocide against our people,’ she shouted, while wrapped in a native fur coat.
‘Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us.
‘Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land.
‘Give us our treaties. We want a treaty in this country. You are a genocidalist. This is not your land, this is not your land.’
She then repeatedly shouted, ‘Not my king,’ before she was lead out in of the room by security.
Earlier, Senator Thorpe turned her back as the Australian anthem was played.
Senator Lidia Thorpe interrupted King Charles ‘ address at Parliament
Earlier in the day, Senator Thorpe was nearly been arrested while protesting the visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla to Canberra.
The tussle with the police took place at an Indigenous protest outside the Australian War Memorial.
A group of some two dozen Indigenous protesters positioned themselves outside the Memorial, chanting ‘always was, always will be Aboriginal land’.
The group was well away from where the King and Queen appeared.
In a video circulating online, a police officer holds Senator Thorpe’s red shirt.
But Senator Thorpe then twists out of the shirt and walks away from the officer, who follows her.
The outspoken Indigenous senator is an outspoken critic of the monarchy and Britain’s intrusion into the Australian continent.
In a statement released on Monday, Senator Thorpe said the British Crown and King Charles should be prosecuted for ‘genocide’.
She also said a treaty with Indigenous Australians ‘must be central’ in any move towards a republic.
She said First Nations Australians should play a key role in rewriting the Constitution, and a charter or rights should be established to enshrine the universal declaration of human rights and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
‘There’s unfinished business that we need to resolve before this country can become a republic,’ she said.
‘This must happen through Treaty. We can move towards a Treaty Republic now. The two processes are not opposed, they’re complimentary.’
‘As First Peoples, we never ceded our Sovereignty over this land. The Crown invaded this country, has not sought treaty with First Peoples, and committed a Genocide of our people. King Charles is not the legitimate Sovereign of these lands.’
