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The Australian senator who disrupted King Charles’ speech at Australia’s Parliament House during his royal tour last month was given a vote of no confidence by her colleagues on Monday after heavy criticism of her outburst.
But she has torn up the motion and promised: ‘I will do it again’, because she is completely unaffected by the parliamentary reprimand.
Lidia Thorpe, the first Aboriginal senator for the state of Victoria, shouted at the king and accused him of committing ‘genocide’ against the country’s indigenous people after delivering a historic speech during what was the first visit to Australia by an British monarch for 13 years. .
Ms Thorpe, who sits as an independent in the upper house of the Australian parliament, said: “You are not our king, you are not sovereign… Give us our country back. Give us what you stole from us… Our babies, our people. You have destroyed our country.”
She was quickly escorted from the room, but caused outrage when she reposted online shortly afterwards a grim cartoon showing the king being beheaded.
But on Monday, Australian senators voted to censure her, with the motion passing by 46 votes to 12. The vote took place before Ms Thorpe arrived on a flight from Melbourne. The politician said she would have wanted to be present for the vote in parliament, but government senators refused to wait.
Senate Majority Leader Penny Wong said Thorpe’s outburst sought to stoke “outrage and dismay.”
He said: “This is part of a trend we’re seeing internationally that, quite frankly, we don’t need here in Australia.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Thorpe, after her disapproval, tore up a copy of it and said she would repeat her tirade when the king returned.
‘If the colonizing king were to come to my country again, our country, I will do it again.
‘And I will continue to do so. I will oppose colonization in this country. I pledge my allegiance to the true sovereigns of these lands; the First Nations are the real sovereigns. There is no arbitrary king who says he is sovereign. “
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, a member of the small Green Party, opposed the vote of no confidence.
He said: “The bubble of white privilege that encapsulates this parliament is a systemic issue.
“That’s why we’re here today, debating a Black senator being censored for telling the truth about the British Crown’s genocide of First Nations people and telling it the way she wants.”