King charles Heckled in Australia

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Did anyone see that King Charles was heckled in Australia this week by an Australian senator, Lidia Thorpe.

She shouted at him "you are not my King, this is not your land, you have stolen our land".

Any thoughts?

I didn't see any thread on it, so I started this one.

Actually that’s not true. There have been news articles, pieces, radio phone ins, on line discussions prompted by Lidia Thorpea’s heckling, and it has very much been about colonialism, empire, and the monarchy. So her heckling has stirred quite a bit of conversation on these topics.

There's lots of elderly men battling cancer. This particular one has immense wealth and privilege and the best possible care, and has lived a long and pampered life.

I'm sure he's heard worse.

I am old, and my family has long generations. But I have actually spoken to an elderly family member who, when young, was aware of native Australians being hunted for sport.

The population of native Australians has declined by 84% since colonisation.

To be honest, I think white people should shut the fuck up. We destroyed possibly the oldest human culture in the world. If those who remain want to shout at the King then they should get on with it.

Yes girl 🏆 💯

** excuse my cringe post written social media style but this calls for it !

preach sister

Well as a Scottish person she has no right to speak for me on that topic or represent what she assumes we're all thinking.

Stupid woman.

So you’re not an ethnic minority then 😂 please don’t go telling me which country is more racist from “your experience” because quite frankly you don’t have a clue

I’m actually pissed off and offended by the white people on here trying to deny that a country that killed off its native population for sport is not racist. It’s hugely offensive and diminishes the atrocities committed by white people in Australia that still pervade and influence the social, racial and cultural balance of the country.

Stop commenting on your experience racism if you’re white - you don’t know and you’d do better to shut up and learn.

What? My ethnicity is none of your business. You sound deranged.

If you weren’t white you would say. If you weren’t white you wouldn’t suggest Australia’s not racist. You sound racist - I’d take deranged over that.

Let me put it like this. I have been told "Go back where you came from." HTH

Cool story. You may have experienced xenophobia - doesn’t mean you’re not white. But perhaps you should try have some empathy for and understanding of the experiences of ethnic minorities and natives in Australia.

This doesn’t show much. You already have one of the most hardline approaches in place

@EasternStandard Why do you think I don’t do anything about this? My comment was an explanation for why Senator Lidia Thorpe’s vehement response to the royals had validity.
If you must know, I work in the arts and in regional health. I work with, for and among amazing Indiginous Australians and use my votes carefully every single time.

Hello, Brexit.

My posts are more directed at a general you as in voters in Aus

All the changes people want can happen but it’s more within your gift (general population) than anyone else

That includes becoming a republic if wanted

@LateAF please don't use the word 'natives' to refer to Aboriginal or First Nations people.

True, but people have a right to say something don’t they? They don’t have to move on just because you want them to. If they don’t know their grandparents because they’re part of the stolen generation for example why can’t they have feelings about it and say something?

Take it from someone that knows, money doesn’t change a cancer prognosis or change the effects from surgery, have a bit of a heart and just stop please, you could be doing so many things instead your arguing somebody’s cancer wasn’t that bad.

I thought that the coastguard, border controls are very well funded and efficient.

Another article on that upstanding and principled senator, Lydia Thorpe:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13990801/Lidia-Thorpe-heirs-swearing-in.html

Wasn’t she clever doing that? Or silly? Immature? Deceptive? So many adjectives to choose from!

I'm not arguing it's not bad.

But wealth and status smooth the way where Joe Bloggs has to manage on his own. You can't compare someone on just his state pension trying to get to hospital appointments by bus etc and say the King doesn't have it easier. 🙄

Whether he should be doing what he's doing is a different question.

If Charles is not well enough to be doing his public duties, which IMO include being heckled by discontent people, then he shouldn't be there.

Let him retire, abdicate, stop public duties, whatever, if he's not fit.

The Greens in Aus are clearly every bit as unhinged as the Greens in Scotland.

Most people do respect the Middletons for that. Snobby headlines in the Mail don't reflect the majority of people.

@EverybodyLovesString

One letter does not prove that indigneous people were officially classified as fauna - an urban myth rejected by indigneous scholars - which is the point I have been making the entire time.

They weren't officially classed as fauna, but they were treated as such. The letter excerpt illustrated how colonists thought of indigenous people - although this letter was more complimentary than most as it was in the vein of wildlife protection. He was saddened to see fewer native flowers, bees, platypuses and aborigines in his daily walks. Do you see what I'm getting at?