CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 An Indigenous senator has intensified her criticism of King Charles III, again accusing the British monarch of complicity in the \u201cgenocide\u201d against Australia\u2019s First Nations peoples and declaring on Wednesday she will not be \u201cshut down.\u201d Sen. Lidia Thorpe\u2019s comments followed an encounter with the monarch at a parliamentary reception Monday where she was escorted out after shouting at him for British colonizers taking Indigenous land and bones. Despite facing political and public backlash, Thorpe was resolute in a television interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and said she would continue to press for justice. \u201cThe colonial system is all about shutting black women down in this country,\u201d Thorpe said from Melbourne. \u201cFor those that don\u2019t agree with what I have said and what I have… <\/p>\n
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 An Indigenous senator has intensified her criticism of King Charles III, again accusing the British monarch of complicity in the \u201cgenocide\u201d against Australia\u2019s First Nations peoples and declaring on Wednesday she will not be \u201cshut down.\u201d Sen. Lidia Thorpe\u2019s comments followed an encounter with the monarch at a parliamentary reception Monday where she was escorted out after shouting at him for British colonizers taking Indigenous land and bones. Despite facing political and public backlash, Thorpe was resolute in a television interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and said she would continue to press for justice. \u201cThe colonial system is all about shutting black women down in this country,\u201d Thorpe said from Melbourne. \u201cFor those that don\u2019t agree with what I have said and what I have... <\/p>\n