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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emma Guinness

King Charles’s poignant comments about Australian Indigenous people before senator accused him of ‘genocide’

King Charles urged Australia to take a leading role in the fight against climate change in his Parliament House speech before an Indigenous senator dramatically accused the royal family of genocide.

The monarch, 75, paid tribute to the “traditional owners of the lands” who have “loved and cared for this continent for 65,000 years” as he spoke in the capital of Canberra.

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