An Australian senator who berated King Charles III and shouted ‘You are not my King’ during a welcome reception has now posted a cartoon of the monarch beheaded.
Senator Lidia Thorpe waited until the end of a landmark speech Charles gave at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra to verbally attack him and claim ‘genocide’ had been committed against the Commonwealth country’s Indigenous people.
And she has now reposted a cartoon of the monarch’s head lying next to a crown on her Instagram story, after it was created by Matt Chun, co-editor of anti-imperialist publication The Sunday Paper.
Questions have been raised over how 51-year-old Greens Senator Thorpe – who demanded a treaty between Australia’s First Nations and its government – was able to speak for so long before being gently ushered from the Parliament House hall.
Charles and Camilla have faced low-key protests during their tour of Australia, from supporters of First Nations resistance to colonisation, who have been…
