CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia\u2019s parliament on Monday. Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones. \u201cYou committed genocide against our people,\u201d she shouted. \u201cGive us what you stole from us \u2014 our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty.\u201d No treaty was ever struck between between British colonizers and Australia\u2019s Indigenous peoples. Charles spoke quietly with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese while security officials stopped Thorpe from approaching. \u201cThis is not your land. You are not my king,\u201d Thorpe yelled as she was… <\/p>\n
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia\u2019s parliament on Monday. Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones. \u201cYou committed genocide against our people,\u201d she shouted. \u201cGive us what you stole from us \u2014 our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty.\u201d No treaty was ever struck between between British colonizers and Australia\u2019s Indigenous peoples. Charles spoke quietly with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese while security officials stopped Thorpe from approaching. \u201cThis is not your land. You are not my king,\u201d Thorpe yelled as she was... <\/p>\n