Indigenous elder scolds Lidia Thorpe for yelling ‘disrespectful’ comments at King Charles

Wiki Article

 

A Ngunnawal elder has rebuked Lidia Thorpe over her confrontation with King Charles, saying the Victorian senator doesn’t speak for her people and that her comments of “fuck the colony” were “disrespectful”. Aunty Violet Sheridan, 69, met the royals as part of an official greeting party on Monday and was sitting near the king in Parliament House when Thorpe “jumped out”, marched forward and started shouting at the royals. Thorpe yelled at the king to “give us our land back”, and shouted “fuck the colony” and “you are not my king”. Sheridan said when she greeted Charles and Camilla “it was all from the heart and I said, ‘I warmly welcome the majesties to Ngunnawal land and also to Canberra’ and it had just ended, and then she’s (Thorpe) jumped out. “Lidia Thorpe does not speak for me and my people, and I’m sure she doesn’t....................Read More

Report this wiki page