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An unhinged radical Australian senator confronted King Charles III during a visit by the monarchy, demanding he give back indigenous lands while declaring “You’re not my king!”

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe gave the King an earful but he stopped short of apologizing to indigenous leaders. Instead, he gave an extremely weak response stating that he had “witnessed the courage and hope that have guided the nation’s long and sometimes difficult journey towards reconciliation,” according to Sky News.

That was nowhere near good enough for Thorpe who screamed, “Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us! Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty!”

She continued her rant, informing Charles, “You are not our King, you are not sovereign… you have committed genocide against our people!” until security escorted her outside.

The confrontation took place on Monday as Charles attempted to finish a speech at Parliament House, according to NBC News.

“The King, who is the first reigning British monarch to visit Australia in 13 years, was addressing lawmakers and other dignitaries in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra, the Australian capital. His five-day visit along with Queen Camilla, his first to an overseas realm as monarch and his first major foreign trip since his cancer diagnosis, comes as the Commonwealth country debates severing ties with the British monarchy,” the media outlet noted.

After Thorpe got the boot, she told reporters, “We’ll continue to resist the colony until we have a peacemaking treaty where we can celebrate this country together. We don’t need a king from another country to dictate to us what we do here.”

“There’s thousands of massacre sites in this country from invasion and someone needs to answer for that,” the senator declared. “If he is the successor, then he needs to answer.”

After being under British colonial rule for over a century, Australia became independent in 1986. However, it is still a constitutional monarchy and the British monarch serves as the head of state. The position is considered to be basically symbolic.

“In a 1999 referendum, a majority of Australians voted against transitioning to a republic. Charles has said it is up to Australians whether they want to break ties with the monarchy,” NBC News reported.

“Though the debate has been revived following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, the nation is still ambivalent about becoming a republic. According to a YouGov poll published last year, about one-third of Australians want the country to transition to a republic as soon as possible, while 35% would prefer to remain a constitutional monarchy and the rest are undecided,” the outlet added.

Thorpe is the first Aboriginal female senator from Victoria. She has made it abundantly clear that she stands strongly against the monarchy. When she was sworn into office in 2022, she referred to the ruling British monarch as “the colonizing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.” She was asked to take the oath again after that statement was made.

Before Charles’ speech on Monday, the royal couple was given a traditional Aboriginal welcoming ceremony outside Parliament House.

“Charles referenced the ceremony at the start of his 10-minute speech, saying he ‘deeply’ appreciated the gesture, which offered him a chance to pay respects to ‘the traditional owners of the land on which we meet,’” NBC News wrote.

“The king, who spent six months living in Australia as a teenager, acknowledged Australia’s First Nations people, who inhabited the land long before the arrival of British settlers more than 230 years ago,” the outlet recounted.

“Throughout my life, Australia’s First Nations people have done me the great honor of sharing so generously their stories and cultures,” Charles proclaimed. “I can only say how much my own experience has been shaped and strengthened by such traditional wisdom.”

Over a thousand citizens greeted the King as he arrived on Friday. About 20 protesters, including Thorpe, railed at the royals as they laid a wreath at a war memorial earlier in the day.

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