10/21/2024
Aboriginal Australian senator Lidia Thorpe shouts out to King Charles,
"You committed a genocide against our people.. Give us our land back.. Give us what you stole from us.. Our bones, our skulls, our babies.. Our people.. You destroyed our land.. This is not your land.. This is not your land.. You are not my king"
Speaking to the BBC, "I wanted to send a clear message to the king of England that he's not the king of this country, he's not my king. He is not sovereign. We are sovereign. To be sovereign you have to be of the land. He's not of this land"
"We have been demanding a treaty for decades and decades. There is a sophisticated genocide going on against my people. We have almost 24,000 aboriginal children that have been taken from their families. We have over 600 deaths in custody with not one officer, ever, being held accountable or responsible. We have the r**e and pillage of our water, our land. We have mass incarceration and mass su***de rates in this country"
"How can he stand up there and say he's the king of our country? He's stolen so much wealth from our people and our land. And he needs to give that back. And he needs to entertain a conversation for a peace treaty in this country"
"We can be a better country. But we cannot bow to the coloniser whose ancestors he spoke about in there, are responsible for mass murder and mass su***de"
