Not everyone is happy about King Charles and Queen Camilla’s visit to Australia, with protests recently taking place in Sydney. Now, protesters have thrown what seems to be red paint on the large Queen Victoria statue that sits outside the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney’s CBD.
Police have been investigating since 5.30am this morning after they were alerted to reports of the vandalism. A listener of the Ben Fordham Live on 2GB sent in a photo to the radio station that shows red paint splashed mostly on the base of the statue.
Police have cordoned the area off with cones and police tape while they look into the situation.
“It looks like red paint,” the listener told the radio host. “I can see three police are guarding it at the moment… one police car right behind.”
The red paint incident happened just one day after Senator Lidia Thorpe confronted the pair while in Canberra. The Indigenous senator shouted various anti-royal and anti-colonialist sentiments in Canberra’s Great Hall.
“Give us our land back that you stole from us,” she shouted. “You committed genocide against our people. Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land.”
Today is also the last day of King Charles and Queen Camilla’s Australia visit, where the royals are expected to make multiple appearances across Sydney.
They’re planning on making a final appearance not too far from the defaced statue this afternoon — at the Sydney Opera House around 4.20pm. Thousands of royal fans are expected to rock up to see them off.
“It comes hours before the King and Queen visit the Opera House just down the road,” Edwina Bartholomew said on Sunrise. “Nobody has been caught as yet but as you can imagine that area has a lot of CCTV so they will be combing through that to find who did this overnight.”
The royals will head to Samoa to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting after they have wrapped up their tour in Australia.
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