The independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been removed from a parliamentary reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla after yelling “this is not your country” and “you are not my king” and “fuck the colony”.
After King Charles concluded his speech, Thorpe walked up the aisle towards the stage, yelling at the royal couple.
“You stole from us,” she shouted, as officials stepped forward to stop her reaching the stage.
… You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty in this country.
As security officers escorted Thorpe back to the door, she shouted:
This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king.
As she left the hall and was forced back into the foyer she could be heard shouting: “Fuck the colony.”
(Guardian live feed)
Fuck this parasite family, they can fuck right off. And Lidia Thorpe is a hero today...in my view.
He's not my fucking king either.
'The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.' David Graeber
The independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been removed from a parliamentary reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla after yelling “this is not your country” and “you are not my king” and “fuck the colony”.
After King Charles concluded his speech, Thorpe walked up the aisle towards the stage, yelling at the royal couple.
“You stole from us,” she shouted, as officials stepped forward to stop her reaching the stage.
… You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty in this country.
As security officers escorted Thorpe back to the door, she shouted:
This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king.
As she left the hall and was forced back into the foyer she could be heard shouting: “Fuck the colony.”
(Guardian live feed)
Fuck this parasite family, they can fuck right off. And Lidia Thorpe is a hero today...in my view.
He's not my fucking king either.
She was interviewed by the BBC afterwards and explained herself in more considered language, not the mode of theatrical protest. I thought it was very good. So yeah, fuck the colony is about right, it's good that he hears those words.
I'm not sure how much this was reported outside NSW - the "tarball" pollution on Sydney beaches. Early suggestions were it might have been from an oil spill out to sea somewhere. It turns out to be shit and "fatberg" fragments. Authorities are denying it was from sewage outpours, but something smells bad about this, figuratively and literally. Beach pollution is an outrage, even the anti-woke RWNJs agree on this one.
