Indigenous Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe Shouts in Protest at Visiting King Charles

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An Indigenous senator has interrupted a reception for British monarch King Charles III during his first visit since taking the throne, calling for a treaty between the Australian government and First Nations peoples.

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00:00Give us what you stole from us, our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people, you destroyed

00:15our land, give us a treaty, this is not your land, this is not our land, you are not my

00:23people, you are not our people.

00:28I did it for truth telling, global truth telling about the royals who caused so much devastation

00:39to not only our people in this country but indigenous people around the world.

00:47We don't have a treaty in this country, we've been calling for decades and decades for a

00:52treaty, we just want peace.

00:54I'm not fussed about what people say about me, I will continue to fight for justice for

01:00my people, we are the real sovereigns in this country, the king is not our sovereign, the

01:06king lives in your country, he's from your country, he can't be our king.

01:12So I don't really, I have the support of Aboriginal people around this country, I have the support

01:18from my grandmother, I have support from elders around the country.

01:22You might put up the scary photos but I will continue to resist and it's only when other

01:30people have their children removed, when their families are incarcerated, when you have your

01:37land taken from you that you will understand what I'm talking about.

01:42But I understand that it's all about portraying me as an angry black woman, well yeah I'm

01:49angry, I'm angry because I see too many of our people dying, too many people incarcerated,

01:56we don't have any land, your king and his previous kings and queens stole that from

02:04us and we want it back and we won't stop resisting.

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