Hold the front page: Sydney Morning Herald forgoes Lidia Thorpe protest in favour of sneezing alpaca

Lidia Thorpe’s protest against King Charles dominated newspaper front pages, but not the Sydney Morning Herald’s. Composite: Daily Express, the Sydney Morning Herald, the National, the Daily Telegraph, The Australian

Lidia Thorpe’s outburst dominated the headlines this week and while most of the British press saw the dramatic moment an Indigenous senator heckled King Charles in Parliament House as front-page material, not all the local press did.

In the UK, the Guardian, Telegraph, Express and the very pro-independence National in Scotland published front-page photographs of Lidia Thorpe shouting: “You are not our king.”