r/InternationalNews • u/speakhyroglyphically • Oct 21 '24
International ‘You are not my king’: Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe disrupts King Charles’ address to Australian parliament
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u/speakhyroglyphically Oct 21 '24
British king and queen are on a nine-day tour of Australia and Samoa.
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Britain’s King Charles III has been heckled by an Aboriginal lawmaker after he arrived in Australia for the first visit to the country by a reigning monarch in more than a decade.
Charles, who is on his first royal tour since announcing his cancer diagnosis in February, was confronted on Monday after completing an address to Australia’s Parliament in which he urged stronger action against climate change.
“You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!” Senator Lidia Thorpe yelled.
“Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land!”
“This is not your land!” Thorpe continued as she was led away by security.
Thorpe, who is the first Indigenous person to represent the state of Victoria in the Senate, was earlier pictured turning her back when God Save the King was played in anticipation of Charles’s arrival.
Australia was settled by the British in the late 18th century, resulting in the mass displacement of Aboriginal communities and countless deaths due to disease and frontier massacres.
The country has had de facto independence from Britain since 1901, but remains a Commonwealth realm with the British monarch as the head of state...
(continues: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/21/king-charles-heckled-by-indigenous-lawmaker-on-australia-visit
Video: theaustralian
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u/Used_Intention6479 Oct 21 '24
She's right.
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u/Death_by_Hookah Oct 22 '24
Australian media is almost universally panning her for this, which feels completely tone deaf. I know there’s a lot of people who love the British royalty but people have been getting way more critical recently.
Anyways, there’s a huge disconnect as always, thanks Murdoch
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u/Poltergeist97 Oct 22 '24
Australian media is unfortunately very conservative. They fucking jailed one of their soldiers for whistleblowing on a US war crime. Don't you love that?
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u/irishemperor Oct 22 '24
Was watching BBC News (biased towards the royals just like Sky) talking about this Australian Aboriginie spokesperson / senator who was heckling King Phillip, and the anchor was super friendly to 2 women who criticized her as rude and not representative of the Australian public for a solid 5 minutes... and then the anchor unenthusiasticly introduces an anti monarchy activist while making a negative expression, he gets 2 words out and then with impeccable comedic timing it cuts away from him to BREAKING NEWS Kier Starmer announces some NHS scheme
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u/wearyclouds Oct 22 '24
I always end up watching BBC News when I visit Great Britain and I feel like it always goes exactly like this lol. There’s this really tangible unfriendliness and dismissal when it comes to anything critical of the status quo
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u/SAGElBeardO Oct 22 '24
"Oh shit, the consequences of the wealth I hang my overpriced jacket on..."
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u/_-Kr4t0s-_ Oct 22 '24
What am I missing here?
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u/speakhyroglyphically Oct 22 '24
Genocide of Indigenous Australians 18th to 20th-century genocide of the Australians and their culture by the European colonisers
The genocide of Indigenous Australians is the systematic and deliberate actions taken primarily by British colonisers and their descendants, particularly during the 18th to the 20th centuries, aimed at eradicating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, languages, and people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_Australians
Hope that helps
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u/_-Kr4t0s-_ Oct 22 '24
It does. Thanks. It looks like got some reading to do.
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u/RobynFitcher Oct 22 '24
Also, you can listen to, or watch "Stuff the British Stole " with Marc Fenell.
Aboriginal people who were massacred, and some who were supposed to have been respected by colonisers had their skulls stolen and sent to British phrenologists. Aboriginal elders and communities are fighting to have them returned home to be welcomed, honoured and respectfully buried by their families.
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u/explain_that_shit Oct 22 '24
And it's not even ancient history. It comes right up to the present day - the latter half of the 20th century is littered with injustices, from nuclear bombs dropped on them to more subtle invasions like the stealing of Arnhem Land.
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u/RobynFitcher Oct 26 '24
The bodies found after the testing at Maralinga are a haunting part of recent Australian history.
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u/paxcoder Oct 22 '24
It appears like none of the episodes of the show you recommended talk about this genocide
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u/RobynFitcher Oct 26 '24
I'm sorry. I may have confused it with another show I was watching around the same time.
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u/Axel_Raden Oct 22 '24
Her history of being a obnoxious attention seeking nut job https://youtu.be/TV4uvOn8Mzo?si=1ESwhdKPA14GIFoc
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u/frontera_power Oct 22 '24
He isn't anyone's "King."
The entire concept of monarchies needs to go in the trash.
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u/Pattoe89 Oct 22 '24
Hasn't Charles already stated that he is willing to step away from Australia as head of state and allow them to leave the commonwealth if that is what they want.
Surely if Charles is sympathetic to your plight, he's a massive ally to have on your side to secure true independence.
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u/CyonHal Oct 22 '24
He gave some lip service, this is like saying Kamala Harris is sympathetic to Palestinian plight and that she is a massive ally on their side.
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u/Pattoe89 Oct 22 '24
Are we sure it's lip service, though? Surely the determining factor of that comes from the result of his visit to Australia?
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u/CyonHal Oct 22 '24
You can tell its lip service by the fact that he will do absolutely nothing to make things right for what his predecessors did in the past
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u/Pattoe89 Oct 22 '24
The assumption that he will do that. The future can't be fact. It hasn't happened yet.
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u/Plenty_Building_72 Oct 22 '24
Why does Australia even have a Brit as their king? Why do they even have a monarch as head of state?
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u/Immortan Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24
Shoulda grabbed that crown. That is where he holds all his power, right? By bri'ish law, if she knocks his crown off and pours a stout over his head, she gets to ascend to Avalon.
Edit: /s
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u/Axel_Raden Oct 22 '24
She's a racist nut job that got kicked out of the crazy left wing party because she was too much even for them https://youtu.be/TV4uvOn8Mzo?si=1ESwhdKPA14GIFoc
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u/-Sloth_King- Oct 22 '24
Literally every country was founded in conquest
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u/wearyclouds Oct 22 '24
That’s not true. And, for the hundreth time, conquest and colonialism are different things. Please go read like a single book.
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u/-Sloth_King- Oct 22 '24
I don't know thee difference
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u/wearyclouds Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24
That’s okay. You can think of it this way:
Conquest was when states took new territory by force and made it a part of their state, like Ancient Rome did when it expanded. It’s a very broad category.
Colonialism is like conquest plus a bunch of other things like colonial settlement, subjugation or extermination of the native. The people who were colonized did not become part of the colonizing state. They were taught that they were subhuman and inherently inferior, and in many places they had their children stolen (Edit: like in Australia) and their languages and traditions systematically erased. It describes a very specific process.
The Wikipedia article on Colonialism is quite good I think, it explains the word more in-depth.
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u/-Sloth_King- Oct 22 '24
The vast majority of North Africa is Arab. Was that conquest or colonialism?
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u/Chilifille Oct 22 '24
Fuck literally every country, then. Especially the unelected royals who live lavishly on stolen wealth.
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