King Charles protestor’s defiant 4-word vow after being censured for heckle on royal tour
The Australian senator who disrupted King Charles’s speech at Australia’s Parliament House during his royal tour last month was given a censure motion by her colleagues on Monday following severe criticism for her outburst.
But she has ripped up the motion and promised “I’ll do it again” as she’s completely unfazed by the parliamentary rebuke
Lidia Thorpe, the first Aboriginal senator for the state of Victoria yelled at the King and accused him of committing “genocide” against the country’s indigenous people after he gave a landmark speech in what was the first visit to Australia by a British monarch in 13 years.
Ms Thorpe, who sits as an independent in the upper house of the Australian parliament, said: “You are not our King, you are not sovereign… Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us… Our babies, our people. You destroyed our land.”
She was swiftly escorted out of the chamber but sparked outrage when shortly after she reposted a grim cartoon online showing the King beheaded.
