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King Charles heckled by Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe on Australia visit

Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe disrupts proceedings as Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a reception at Parliament House in Canberra on October 21, 2024 [Lukas Coch/Pool via AFP]

Britain’s King Charles III has been heckled by an Aboriginal lawmaker after he arrived in Australia for the first visit to the country by a reigning monarch in more than a decade.

Charles, who is on his first royal tour since announcing his cancer diagnosis in February, was confronted on Monday after completing an address to Australia’s Parliament in which he urged stronger action against climate change.

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