Australian independent senator Lidia Thorpe said that she will yell at the King Charles III if he returns to the country, report agencies.
The senator made the statement in response to a censure against her in the parliament for her defiant activity against the king.
She told reporters, “If the colonizing king were to come to my country again, our country, then I’ll do it again”.
“And I will keep doing it. I will resist colonization in this country. I swear my allegiance to the real sovereigns of these lands; First Peoples are the real sovereigns. You don’t have some random king rock up and say he’s sovereign,” she added.
However, Australian senators on Monday voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month.
The censure of independent senator Lidia Thorpe is a symbolic gesture that records her colleagues’ disapproval of her conduct during the first visit to Australia by a British monarch in 13 years.
The motion was carried 46 votes to 12.
Government leader in the Senate Penny Wong said Thorpe’s outburst sought to “incite outrage and grievance.”
“This is part of a trend that we do see internationally which, quite frankly, we do not need here in Australia,” Wong told the Senate.
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, a member of the minor Greens party, opposed the censure motion.
“The bubble of white privilege that encapsulates this parliament is a systemic issue,” Faruqi said.
“That’s why we are here today, debating a Black senator being censured for telling the truth of the British crown’s genocide on First Nations people and telling it the way she wants to.”
The vote took place before Thorpe arrived on a flight from Melbourne. Thorpe said she had wanted to be in Parliament for the vote but government senators refused to wait.
Indigenous people account for fewer than 4% of Australia’s population and are the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic group.
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