Britain’s King Charles was heckled by an Australian senator during his visit to that country. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman reports.
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00:00Britain's King Charles was heckled by an Australian senator during his visit to that country.
00:04Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!
00:08Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people!
00:12You destroyed our land!
00:14Give us a treaty! We want a treaty in this country!
00:18Lydia Thorpe is an indigenous independent senator.
00:21Australia is technically still a commonwealth with King Charles as its monarch,
00:25but its relationship with Britain has long been controversial.
00:28Indigenous Australians were massacred throughout the country's colonial history.
00:32According to the New York Times, in 1999, the Australian public voted against
00:36separating from the British monarchy 55% to 45%.
00:41As for King Charles, he pretended not to have heard Senator Thorpe's protest.