King Charles heckled by Indigenous lawmaker on Australia visit

British king and queen are on a nine-day tour of Australia and Samoa.

Britain’s King Charles III has been heckled by an Aboriginal lawmaker after he arrived in Australia for the first visit to the country by a reigning monarch in more than a decade.

Charles, who is on his first royal tour since announcing his cancer diagnosis in February, was confronted on Monday after completing an address to Australia’s Parliament in which he urged stronger action against climate change.

“You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!” Senator Lidia Thorpe yelled.

“Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land!”

“This is not your land!” Thorpe continued as she was led away by security.