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With her protest before the king, Lidia Thorpe bursts the warm bubble of nostalgia around the royal visit | Karen Middleton

Charles and Camilla entered the Great Hall from a door behind the stage – not from the foyer, down the centre aisle, and past Thorpe. Now we may know whyKing Charles heckled by Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe at Australia’s Parliament HouseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs soon as Lidia Thorpe RSVP’d to the royal reception at Parliament House, it would have been clear to those in charge of protocol that there was probably going to be a protest.Perhaps this was why the king and queen and their hosts entered the Great Hall from a door behind the stage and not straight ahead from the foyer, down the centre aisle and right past where Thorpe, dressed in a possum-skin cloak, had taken up an early position at the front of a group of waiting MPs. Continue reading...

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												40 minutes ago											Australian senator shares cartoon of beheaded King Charles after protest in parliament
												
													Lidia Thorpe earlier stormed into a royal reception where she shouted that Charles had ‘committed genocide’												
												
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												46 minutes ago											King Charles’s poignant comments about Australian Indigenous people before senator accused him of genocide
												
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												74 minutes ago											Royal news live: Australian senator Lidia Thorpe explains furious outburst after King Charles’s speech
												
													The Australian senator speaks out again following confrontation in parliament												
												
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												84 minutes ago											Who is Lidia Thorpe? Radical indigenous Australian senator behind King Charles rant had romance with ex
												
													Lidia Thorpe, 51, (pictured) has a track record of stunts at major political events and angry outbursts, from calling the Queen a 'coloniser' to berating a group of men outside a strip club.												
												
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												89 minutes ago											Fury as radical Australian Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe posts beheaded King Charles cartoon hours after hijacking and embarrassing King by accusing him of 'genocide' at royal welcome event
												
													Dressed in a native fur coat, Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, 51, shouted at Parliament House in Canberra that the King had 'committed genocide against our people', adding: 'F*** the colony'.												
												
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												2 hours ago											Who is Lidia Thorpe? What you need to know about the Australian senator who heckled the King
												
													The Indigenous senator has long been known for her dislike of the British monarchy.												
												
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												2 hours ago											Who is Lidia Thorpe? Australian senator who heckled King Charles at Parliamentary reception
												
													The senator shouted “You are not my King” and “This is not your land” at the monarch during a royal reception												
												
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												2 hours ago											Royal news live: Lidia Thorpe breaks silence to tell King Charles ‘your family has our bones and skulls’
												
													The Australian senator speaks out again following confrontation in parliament												
												
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												2 hours ago											Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe faces angry backlash over 'rude and disrespectful' outburst during King Charles' visit
												
													Dressed in a native fur coat, Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, 51, shouted at Parliament House in Canberra that the King had 'committed genocide against our people', adding: 'F*** the colony'.												
												
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