King Charles heckler Lidia Thorpe shares sick cartoon after shouting at him

An Australian senator who accused King Charles of committing “genocide” against her nation’s indigenous people during a clash in parliament has shared a photo of him with his head severed.

Lidia Thorpe, who campaigns on First Nations issues, disrupted Charles’ welcome to the capital, Canberra, with her outburst that overshadowed a speech by the King highlighting his debt to the descendants of Australia’s first people.

Thorpe, wearing a traditional long possum fur coat, walked across the hall and told the king: “You committed geocide against our people.” Give us back our land. Give us what you stole from us.

‘Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our lives. Give us a treaty, we need a treaty in this country. You are a genocide.’

As security escorted her out of the chamber, she was heard saying, “Fuck the neighborhood.”

The senator, who refused to swear the Queen’s oath upon being elected, was one of around 20 people who protested the King’s arrival as he laid a wreath at a war memorial in Canberra earlier in the day.

She was among several indigenous voices who protested. the arrival of the king in what has been Dubbed a ‘farewell tour’ by Australian republicans.

After the confrontation, he reposted a cartoon of Charles with his head severed on his Instagram Story, created by Matt Chun, co-editor of the anti-imperialist publication The Sunday Paper.

Speaking to Sky’s Kay Burley after the incident, Ms Thorpe said she was “not concerned” if some people thought she had abused her senatorial power as she has “the support of Aboriginal people across the country”.

“We are the true sovereigns of this country,” he said. ‘The King lives in your country, he is from your country. He cannot be our King.

He added: “We still have our bones and skulls in his family’s possession.” We want that back. We want to recover our land.

“And we want your king to take some leadership, come to the table and discuss a treaty with us.”

When asked why she referred to the King as “genocidal”, the senator said: “There are thousands of places of massacre in this country because of the invasion and someone has to answer for that.” “He is the successor, so he has to respond.”

Upon arrival, Charles and Camilla were greeted by Aunt Serena Williams of the Ngunnawal people, who urged the king to apologize for colonial atrocities.

He told reporters: ‘We all have roles and responsibilities, and I have roles and responsibilities to my people. “And I think an apology would be lovely.”

When asked if the king should ask for forgiveness personally, she said: “Yes.” Because we have to acknowledge our past.’

Charles acknowledged the comments during his speech in parliament, saying he “offered to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the land on which we met”, but stopped short of formally apologizing.

Aunt Violet Sheridan, another Ngunnawal elder who formally welcomed Charles and Camilla to their ancestral lands as they entered Parliament House, said the senator did not speak for her.

She said: ‘We are all very disappointed by this. Having that in the Great Hall is disgusting. I’m so upset for her. He has waited so long to be king that he has rehearsed for it his entire life.

“He is our king, our sovereign and he has cancer.”

Who is Lidia Thorpe?

Thorpe was elected in 2017 and sits as an independent in the upper house of the Australian parliament.

After refusing to swear allegiance to the Queen upon being elected, she was forced to repeat the oath of allegiance in 2022 after initially describing the late monarch as a “colonizer”.

In a statement before the King’s visit, he said: ‘As First Nations, we never gave up our sovereignty over this land. The Crown invaded this country, did not seek a treaty with the First Peoples, and committed genocide of our people. King Charles is not the legitimate sovereign of these lands.

‘Any movement towards a republic must not continue this injustice. The treaty must play a central role in the establishment of an independent nation. There should not be a republic without a Treaty.”

In an interview with Australian media, he also referred to the King as a “violent invader” who must take responsibility for crimes committed by the British empire.

“I recognize him as an invader, a violent invader,” Mrs Thorpe said. “Yes, he was not personally responsible, but he certainly enjoys the wealth that has been created at the expense of slavery, massacres and murders, and stolen children.”

He also said indigenous people deserve retaliation from the monarchy for the atrocities inflicted on them.

The visit to Parliament came on the fourth day of the King and Queen’s tour, which saw several Australian officials avoid meeting the royals.

A series of low-level protests have marred his visit so far, including a banner with the word “decolonize” being displayed at an event in Sydney.

Prime Minister Albanese has a long-standing goal of holding a referendum on severing ties with the British monarchy and turning his country into a republic.

But plans were put on hold after Australians overwhelmingly rejected a plan to give greater political rights to indigenous people in a referendum last year.

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