A politician staged a protest at a royal reception attended by the King and Queen in Canberra, shouting that the monarch had “committed genocide against our people”.
After speeches in Parliament House by the King, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and leader of opposition Peter Dutton, Lidia Thorpe, an independent senator from Victoria, walked down the aisle of the Great Hall shouting: “You committed genocide against our people. 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. We want a treaty.”
