"You are not my king," and that the British royal family had committed 'genocide' against Indigenous people. 'Give us our land back,' shouted Thorpe, an independent senator from the state of Victoria. "
"Give us what you stole from us - our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty in this country."
The king remains Australia's head of state, a largely ceremonial role, and he and the queen were greeted earlier outside Parliament by hundreds of supporters, some protesters and one alpaca.
Yet, Monday's incident threatened to revive the contentious debate Down Under that surrounded the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Australia is one of the few settler-colonized Commonwealth nations that doesn't have a treaty with its First Nations people.
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