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Both Charles and Camilla are having their gilt edged fault lines exposed on their Australian tour. We should be thankful for Lidia Thorpe’s courage and outspokenness.

Having failed to support the referendum to place an Indigenous Voice in the Constitution, Senator Lidia Thorpe has shown she has the courage to use her own voice on behalf of all Australians, and particularly First Nations peoples by telling the British Royals they are unwelcome here.

 

Thorpe unmasks the coloniser who visited genocide on Australia’s First Nations    By Tony Smith

 

Britain was and remains the invader in Australia. Australians did not cede their sovereignty, despite the sycophancy of some politicians.

For her plain – Australian – speaking, Senator Thorpe was manhandled out of the Great Hall of Canberra’s Parliament House. Exactly how the decision to evict her was taken is not clear. While the Great Hall might not be the Chamber, it is a matter of parliamentary privilege that Senator Thorpe should not be constrained within the environs of the parliament. The tradition arose as a direct result of the actions of King Charles the First in proroguing unfriendly assemblies and arresting his critics.

The only way a parliamentarian should be excluded is through order of the Presiding Officer – President of the Senate – usually after a vote directing him or her to do so. It would be interesting to know from where the authority to silence Senator Thorpe came. Was it a nod from the Prime Minister?

We should hear no further hypocrisy about democracy from the royals. Whether Senator Thorpe’s outburst could be considered impolite is hardly relevant. Democracy is not about manners but about accountability and truth. MPs should be able to speak fearlessly without fear of repercussions – legal or social.

Charles had the option of approaching Senator Thorpe and facing her criticism. We have often seen ceremonial hostility enacted across Africa and the Pacific with smiling royals welcoming the attention. The problem on this occasion was that there was too much accountability, too much truth and too much democracy.

Apparently, both C & C earlier signed an historic bible. There was a problem there also as CIII, when the mere Prince of Wales, had signed the book along with his then wife, the hugely popular Princess Diana.

Now we find that Camilla is to give her advice to Australians on domestic violence. While it is possible Camilla could have some helpful suggestions, there are serious grounds to doubt her bona fides in this area. Like her husband, she represents the coloniser which visited genocide on Australia’s First Nations.

 

The continuing horrendous record of violence experienced by Indigenous women originated in the force used by the British to subjugate the proud First Nations. And of course the British did this for profit, which flowed into the pockets of generations of royals and remains there. Any contribution from the royal coffers to assist in campaigns against domestic violence would be welcome. Such donation would of course be a small balm to British consciences.

During a British cricket tour some years ago, the Barmy Army taunted Australian spectators by chanting that ‘your next Queen will be Camilla’. Perhaps of the two Cs Camilla was the easier target, but they might have had a jibe at CIII as well. What a pity the Barmy Army is not in action today to witness the pathetic duo on tour and to immortalise Lidia Thorpe’s justified challenge.

 

https://johnmenadue.com/thorpe-unmasks-the-coloniser-who-visited-genocide-on-australias-first-nations/

 

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alpaca spit....

Aboriginal protester arrested during King's Sydney tour

 

BY Katy Watson and Tiffanie Turnbull

 

An Aboriginal protester has been arrested at the Sydney Opera House as crowds awaited a glimpse of the King and Queen on the final day of their tour in Australia.

Thousands of people packed the harbourside forecourt to see the royal couple visit on Tuesday afternoon.

Before they arrived, Wayne Wharton, a prominent Indigenous activist from Brisbane, was arrested after shouting anti-monarchist slogans and refusing a police order to move on.

It comes as backlash over an Aboriginal senator's heckling of King Charles in Canberra on Monday intensifies.

Mr Wharton had shouted "he’s not my King", echoing the words of independent Senator Lidia Thorpe the day before.

The crowd waiting for the royals - many clutching Australian flags - shouted back "God save the King".

Mr Wharton had also protested outside the church service the royals attended on Sunday.

Thorpe's protest has been praised by some Indigenous activists as brave, but condemned by other prominent Aboriginal Australians as "embarrassing" and disrespectful. It has also been roundly criticised by her parliamentary peers.

On Tuesday, Thorpe said she had deleted a violent cartoon of the King that was posted to her Instagram account, describing it as "inappropriate" and posted by a staff member without her knowledge.

Outside the Sydney Opera House, onlookers applauded officers when Mr Wharton was arrested and placed into a police van.

Many of the hundreds there had been queuing since early on Tuesday, a few draped in British flags. Others had accessorised with royal-themed jewellery and handbags.

“We want to celebrate our country and all the people in it,” said Karen Clark, with her little boys Benjamin and Harrison who were both wearing crowns and capes with a fake fur trim. 

“We were brought up with the King, we celebrate the King’s birthday with the boys - it’s fun to have high tea and dress up in our best outfits.”

Christie Delaney also lined up for several hours. Her reward? Shaking Queen Camilla’s hand.

“I got a lot of excitement out of it to be honest... seeing somebody so famous," she told the BBC.

"To be able to shake her hand and actually say hello to her and welcome her to Australia - that's something else isn’t it?”

Bettina Bethuel, who came with her friend Taja Shephard, said: “My father was from Liverpool and I’ve always been interested in the royals."

Taja saw the heckling by Thorpe on TV and wasn’t impressed.

“I thought it was a little rude but I suppose she makes her point for Indigenous people,” she said. “But I don’t think it’s appropriate how she behaved.”

Nellie Pollard-Wharton, who was with her father as he was arrested, said it was "laughable" to watch crowds "cheering as he’s put into a paddy wagon [police van] for standing up for his rights".

"Essentially, in the vein of what many Aussies say to us, it’s like ‘get over it’ - it’s been long enough," she told the BBC.

"[But we] need to keep resisting so we can have treaties, so we can have our rights heard, so our young people and our men and women in custody stop dying, so that our health outcomes improve... so we can actually self-determine."

On the other side of the city, King Charles began Tuesday with a visit to the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence in Redfern, where he met with Aboriginal elders.

He later attended a community picnic in Parramatta, where the monarch had a go at cooking sausages on a barbeque before meeting a sheepdog.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79n9l0p3x8o

 

APPARENTLY AN AUSSIE-BRED ALPACA SPAT IN THE FACE OF KINGO CHARLIE THREE.....

 

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