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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard

RARE PHOTOS: Indigenous elder scolds lidia thorpe for yelling disrespectful comments at king charles | Vintage Vibes

A Ngunnawal elder has rebuked Lidia Thorpe over her confrontation with King Charles, saying the Victorian senator doesn’t speak for her people and that her comments of “fuck the colony” were “disrespectful”.

Aunty Violet Sheridan, 69, met the royals as part of an official greeting party on Monday and was sitting near the king in Parliament House when Thorpe “jumped out”, marched forward and started shouting at the royals. Thorpe yelled at the king to “give us our land back”, and “you are not my king”. As she left the hall and was forced back into the foyer, Thorpe could be heard shouting: “Fuck the colony.”

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