Independent senator Lidia Thorpe interrupted a reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla in Canberra.
King Charles III was met with a defiant protest by independent senator Lidia Thorpe, who interrupted the royal couple's parliamentary reception, yelling: "You are not my King." Senator Thorpe strode up the central aisle of the Great Hall of Parliament House after the King's address to tell him she did not accept his sovereignty.
During the swearing in ceremony, Thorpe approached the dispatch box with her fist raised in a symbolic gesture of Blak resistance. When asked to declare her allegiance to the monarch, Thorpe inserted the word 'colonising' before Queen Elizabeth II's title. Several hundred people were in the Great Hall of Parliament House to welcome Charles and Queen Camilla to a parliamentary reception hosted by Albanese and his partner, Jodie Haydon.
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