'This is not your land, you are not my king,' lawmaker heckles King Charles at Australian parliament

Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe disrupting proceedings as Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a Parliamentary reception at Parliament House in Canberra on Oct 21, 2024. - AFP

CANBERRA: Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles during his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday (Oct 21), shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries.

"Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!" Thorpe screamed in an almost minute-long diatribe, after the 75-year-old king's speech.