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.
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.
Australia was settled by the British in the late 18th century, resulting in the mass displacement of Aboriginal communities and countless deaths due to disease and frontier massacres.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed his preference for Australia to become a republic but has ruled out holding a referendum on the issue during the current parliamentary term.
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