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In this image made from video, Australian Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe speaks in a television interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.(Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)

Indigenous Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe intensifies criticism of King Charles III

An Indigenous senator has intensified her criticism of King Charles III, again accusing the British monarch of complicity in the “genocide” against Australia’s First Peoples and declaring she will not be “shut down.”

By AP News
Published - Oct 23, 2024, 05:52 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:05 PM EST

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Indigenous senator has intensified her criticism of King Charles III, again accusing the British monarch of complicity in the “genocide” against Australia’s First Nations peoples and declaring on Wednesday she will not be “shut down.”

Sen. Lidia Thorpe’s comments followed an encounter with the monarch at a parliamentary reception Monday where she was escorted out after shouting at him for British colonizers taking Indigenous land and bones.

Despite facing political and public backlash, Thorpe was resolute in a television interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and said she would continue to press for justice.

“The colonial system is all about shutting black women down in this country,” Thorpe said from Melbourne. “For those that don’t agree with what I have said and what I have done, I can tell you now there are elders, there are grassroots Aboriginal people across this country and Torres Strait Islander people who are just so proud.”

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