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Senator confirms 'hairs' oath after challenging King

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe has confirmed she swore allegiance to Queen Elizabeth's 'hairs', rather than heirs, when taking office.

AAP

Cultural burning isn’t just important to Indigenous culture – it’s essential to Australia’s disaster management

Last month, Australia’s newly appointed minister for emergency management, Senator Jenny McAllister, and Senator Tony Sheldon, special envoy for disaster recovery, took part in a cultural burn outside Lismore in New South Wales, as part of the National Gathering on Indigenous Disaster Resilience.

The Conversation

Simon Birmingham floats new ‘disorderly conduct’ penalties after Lidia Thorpe’s protest against the king

Liberal senator says world leaders could give Australia ‘a wide berth’ without measures to deter protests, but expert says such sanctions not ‘appropriate’

The Guardian - AU

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The Hindmarsh Island bridge case is being deliberately misremembered in a new fight over the Blayney goldmine

Twenty-three years after the federal court found there was no reason to think ‘secret women’s business’ was a lie, the claim that it was is still being used to discredit what Aboriginal people say about their culture

The Guardian - AU

Australian senator doubles down on Charles criticism, saying monarchy holds ‘stolen wealth’

Lidia Thorpe, who campaigns on First Nations issues in Australia, disrupted Charles’s welcome to the capital Canberra with an outburst on Monday.

Evening Standard

Australian senator says Charles holds ‘stolen wealth’ after parliament protest

Lidia Thorpe, who campaigns on First Nations issues in Australia, disrupted Charles’s welcome to the capital Canberra with an outburst on Monday.

The Independent UK

Senior Coalition women and senator Matt Canavan reject Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s abortion comments

Shadow Indigenous Australians spokesperson says she ‘cannot agree’ with later term abortions, sparking rebuke from Sussan Ley, Jane Hume and Bridget McKenzie

The Guardian - AU

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Selfies, hugs and protests: King Charles’s new approach in spotlight during ‘fast and furious’ royal tour of Australia

Issue of Aboriginal sovereignty front and centre during head of state’s whirlwind first visit

The Guardian - AU

Claim MP booted from Liberals over 'annoying' questions

Nazis gatecrashing a rally were used as a pretext to expel MP Moira Deeming from the Liberals based on her views, her lawyer has alleged in court.

AAP

Western Australia is tearing up environmental protections – and taking a bet the rest of the country won’t notice

The state Labor government is steering Australia’s climate policy, letting emissions soar unbridled as it paves the way for massive fossil fuel projects

The Guardian - AU

King Charles Winds Up Australia Trip, Flies To Samoa Summit

King Charles III wrapped up a six-day Australia tour Wednesday, jetting off to the Pacific island of Samoa for a summit of the 56-nation Commonwealth, where more questions about Britain's colonial legacy await.

International Business Times

If Australians knew the whole truth about Indigenous history, Lidia Thorpe’s royal outburst would not have been a shock

Resistance to colonisation has rarely been polite. The senator asked questions Aboriginal people are still waiting – after two centuries – to get the answers to

The Guardian - AU

Patrick Harvie: Australia's indigenous people deserve 'proper apology'

SCOTTISH Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has said the indigenous people of Australia deserve a “proper apology” after King Charles was berated…

The National (Scotland)

Charles and Camilla bid farewell to Australia after a ‘sausage sizzle’

Dame Joanna Lumley, who is staging her one-woman show at the Sydney Opera House, met the couple.

Evening Standard

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Queen Victoria statue vandalised hours before King Charles's visit to Sydney

A STATUE of Queen Victoria in Sydney was defaced with red paint just a few hours before King Charles’s scheduled visit to the city.

The Conversation

View from The Hill: We have bigger issues around freedom of speech than Lidia Thorpe’s noisy protest

King Charles – as the old-fashioned saying goes – didn’t come down in the last shower. He’s unlikely to have been fazed by the outburst from independent senator Lidia Thorpe, who disrupted Monday’s Parliament House reception for the royals.

The Guardian - AU

Australian senator Lidia Thorpe confronted King Charles with a string of claims. How do they stack up?

The Gurnai Gunditjmara and Djab-Wurrung woman accused the crown of a range of crimes against Indigenous people at Parliament House

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Indigenous community to 'tell our truth' at inquiry

Queensland's truth-telling and healing inquiry will hold a hearing at the Indigenous community of Cherbourg, as the LNP promises to scrap the process.

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Thorpe doubles down on royal protest; Central Park Five sue Trump; and a teacher-free pilates class

Independent senator says, ‘I’m not looking to be re-elected – I’m looking to get justice for my people’

AAP

Indigenous All Stars to play Fremantle in 2025

After a 10-year hiatus, the AFL Indigenous All Stars will assemble in 2025 and return to action in a pre-season match against Fremantle at Optus Stadium.

The Independent UK

King lambasted by Australian senator for ‘genocide’ against indigenous people

Senator Lidia Thorpe waited until the end of a landmark speech Charles gave in the capital, Canberra, to verbally attack the King.

The Independent UK

King Charles III ends first Australian visit by a reigning British monarch in 13 years

King Charles III is ending the first visit to Australia by a reigning British monarch in 13 years with anti-monarchists hoping his journey is a step toward an Australian citizen becoming head of state

Evening Standard

King Charles faces Indigenous activists for second day in a row on Australia tour

Indigenous elders in Sydney one told him their goal was ‘sovereignty’

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: elder says Thorpe lacked respect, Musk’s $1m voter ploy, Safran on squatting in Kanye West’s mansion

Aunty Violet Sheridan says the Victorian senator ‘does not speak for my people’

Marie Claire

King Charles Heckled by Anti-Monarchist in Parliament During Royal Tour of Australia

"Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us."

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