Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe defends comments to King as 'global truth telling'

10 months ago

News Politics This is not your land': Senator Lidia Thorpe shouts at King in Australian parliament A senator has heckled the King in Australia's parliament shouting: "This is not your land. You are not my King". Lidia Thorpe wearing traditional clothing strode up the aisle yelling: "Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us! Our bones our skulls our babies our people. Ms Thorpe is the first Aboriginal woman from the state of Victoria to become a senator. When she was sworn in she refused to take an oath of allegiance to the late Queen. She was also one of about 20 people protesting as the royals laid a wreath at a war memorial earlier in the day. Australia senatorLidia thorpe

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