7 hours ago Charles's heckler makes me embarrassed to be Australian. It was like watching someone turn on your grandparents, writes ANGELA MOLLARD

While the King and Queen showed remarkable poise as they came under fire from Senator Lidia Thorpe, there is widespread revulsion that the couple were targeted in such a manner.

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11 hours ago Indigenous elder scolds Lidia Thorpe for yelling ‘disrespectful’ comments at King Charles

Aunty Violet Sheridan says the Victorian senator ‘does not speak for me and my people’ and called her yelling of ‘fuck the colony’ inappropriateWho is Lidia Thorpe, the Australian senator who accused King Charles of genocide?A Ngunnawal elder has rebuked Lidia Thorpe over her confrontation with King Charles, saying the Victorian senator doesn’t speak for her people and that her comments of “fuck the colony” were “disrespectful”.Aunty Violet Sheridan, 69, met the royals as part of an official greeting party on Monday and was sitting near the king in Parliament House when Thorpe “jumped out”, marched forward and started shouting at the royals. Thorpe yelled at the king to “give us our land back”, and shouted “fuck the colony” and “you are not my king”. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Senator Lidia Thorpe shares beheaded King Charles cartoon on Instagram after monarchy heckle

Indigenous politician shouted at the King in a fiery speech as he visited the Australian parliament

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14 hours 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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15 hours 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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15 hours 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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15 hours 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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16 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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16 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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