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Lidia Thorpe has emboldened protests against King Charles

23 October 2024

6:04 PM

23 October 2024

6:04 PM

King Charles and Queen Camilla flew to Samoa for the Commonwealth leaders’ meeting early on Wednesday, after completing their visit to Australia the previous day. Not, however, without again being confronted by the historic grievances of Aboriginal community leaders.

It was a disgraceful display of look-at-me exhibitionism, but Monday’s one-woman disruption of the King and Queen’s formal welcome by part-Aboriginal firebrand senator and full-time activist, Lidia Thorpe, gave others licence to express their concerns directly to King Charles.

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