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Thorpe removed from reception after yelling ‘you stole from us’ at king
Karen Middleton
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been removed from a parliamentary reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla after yelling “this is not your country” and “you are not my king” and “fuck the colony”.
After King Charles concluded his speech, Thorpe walked up the aisle towards the stage, yelling at the royal couple.
“You stole from us,” she shouted, as officials stepped forward to stop her reaching the stage.
…You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty in this country.
As security officers escorted Thorpe back to the door, she shouted:
This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king.
As she left the hall and was forced back into the foyer she could be heard shouting: “Fuck the colony.”
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Watch: the moment Lidia Thorpe shouted after King Charles’ speech
Here is the moment that Independent senator Lidia Thorpe shouted after King Charles’ speech in parliament house just earlier.
As Sarah Basford Canales notes, Thorpe can be heard saying:
This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king.
Here’s the moment Lidia Thorpe shouted after King Charles III delivered his speech in Parliament House just after 2pm. She can be heard saying, “This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king”. #auspol pic.twitter.com/4udHc1ZB9q
— Sarah Basford Canales (@sbasfordcanales) October 21, 2024
Josh Taylor
More from Australia’s privacy commissioner on AI
Continuing from our last post: Some companies have updated their terms since the arrival of large-language model AI systems to say that personal data will be used unless users opt out, and in some cases this has only been picked up by users of the platform delving into the terms and sharing that information with other users.
Carly Kind said just updating the policy wasn’t sufficient:
Just updating a privacy policy will not be sufficient to meet the requirements of the Privacy Act, in which entities have to be able to establish that it’s within users’ reasonable expectations that their personal information will be used in a different way. And so I think that’s the relevant test that entities need to turn their mind to.
If you don’t have consent to do use that information in a different way, then you need to be able to show it within users’ reasonable expectations.
Josh Taylor
Privacy watchdog issues AI warning over people’s data
Australia’s privacy commissioner, Carly Kind, has warned companies that bury how they’ll use AI on people’s data they have collected risk being investigated by her office.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released new guidelines for both developers of AI systems and the organisations that use those systems on how personal information should be used. Kind told Guardian Australia:
We think that this guidance will hopefully set out pretty clearly how they need to be thinking about that when it comes to larger players and the developments of developers of these models. we’re articulating the legal situation we would have imagined that they had also given consideration to these laws in the development of these models.
We would expect to see compliance with the Privacy Act in instances where the Privacy Act applies, and it does apply to some overseas entities, and then it will be a matter for my office to consider whether to take enforcement action if we do have a sufficient suspicion to suspect non compliance.
Sarah Basford Canales
King ‘doing an amazing job’, longtime fan says
Earlier, Elaine Hoskins spoke of the moment she got to shake Queen Camilla’s hand at the Australian War Memorial.
Camilla is wonderful. Always the lady, and she is such a supporter to him, and it was a privilege to talk to her today.
Hoskins drove up from Melbourne with her husband, Russell Baker, to get a glimpse of the royals. But it wasn’t her first time travelling afar to see the British monarchy.
Donning a tiara, Hoskins said she was a fan of King Charles III since she was 12.
Charles and I are the same age, yes, and so he was my pin-up boy on my wall from when I was about 12. He came to the throne through sadness, but as he is now, I think he’s doing an amazing job.
Hoskins went to King Charles’ coronation in England, where she picked up the flag she brought to Canberra.
As for Baker, does he share his wife’s love for the British monarchy too?
Oh yeah, but she is an absolute monarchist. She’s just mad [about the royals] … I don’t care. I’m a royalist more than anything – I don’t think we should be a republic.
Thorpe removed from reception after yelling ‘you stole from us’ at king
Karen Middleton
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been removed from a parliamentary reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla after yelling “this is not your country” and “you are not my king” and “fuck the colony”.
After King Charles concluded his speech, Thorpe walked up the aisle towards the stage, yelling at the royal couple.
“You stole from us,” she shouted, as officials stepped forward to stop her reaching the stage.
…You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty in this country.
As security officers escorted Thorpe back to the door, she shouted:
This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king.
As she left the hall and was forced back into the foyer she could be heard shouting: “Fuck the colony.”
Karen Middleton
Wrap-up of Albanese and Dutton’s speeches
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton welcomed King Charles and Queen Camilla to Parliament House with warm greetings and a few jokes, thanking them for standing with Australians in good times and bad.
Albanese called it honour of his life to have led the Australian delegation attending the king’s coronation.
Albanese praised the king’s engagement on issues including climate change and reconciliation.
You have shown great respect for Australians, even during times where we’ve debated the future of our own constitutional arrangements and the nature of our relationship with the Crown. Nothing stands still.
Dutton also welcomed the royal couple and lightened the mood, noting how much those gathered had been anticipating the visit.
“People have had haircuts, people have shined shoes – and that’s just the republicans,” Dutton said, drawing laughter around the room.
King’s speech ends with heckles
The king has finished his speech with applause heard across the room, but a heckler can be heard from the crowd:
You are not out king … Give us our land back … You destroyed our land … We want treaty.
Today’s global challenges require ‘both ancient and new thinking’ – king
King Charles said that with Covid-19 “barely behind us”, the impacts of climate change “deepening”, and the “horrors of war, death, and needless destruction all too visible”, this moment in history “requires both ancient and new thinking”.
The challenges we now face call us to show not only constancy and valour, but also humanity, empathy and generosity of spirit.
Looking out across the global Commonwealth of nations, I see a family of some 2.5bn people, striving for peace, justice, and mutual respect. The Commonwealth spans six continents and as a group has the size and influence to play a significant role on the global stage, while being small enough to nurture a personal relationship.
It has the diversity to understand the world’s problems, and the sheer brain power and resolve to formulate practical solutions.
King says Australia ‘particularly vulnerable’ to climate change
King Charles noted the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, the floods of 2022-23 and the tropical cyclones last year, and this year, and spoke of the importance of addressing climate change:
I cannot tell you how much I have felt grief and shock of what you have gone, through having visited many of the communities myself over all of these years. Amid such overwhelming challenges, I have always been deeply impressed by the extraordinary bravery and resilience of those who look up, look out and in that most Australian way, battle on! …
The regular roll of unprecedented events is an unmistaken sign of climate change, to which Australia is so particularly vulnerable.
The king said that Australia’s “international leadership on global initiatives to protect our climate and biodiversity is of such absolute and critical importance.”
Australia has all of the natural ingredients to create a more sustainable, regenerative way of living, by harnessing the power with which nature has endowed the nation, whether it be wind or its famous sunshine, Australia is tracking the path towards a better and safer future.
King recalls attending Victorian school in 60s
King Charles is speaking about his first visit to Australia in 1966 for school in Victoria – “and, ladies and gentlemen, what an education it was!”
I had thought that the school I had been attending in Scotland was remote and testing enough, but nothing had quite prepared me for the realities of the bush country around Mount Bulla.
Six decades since his first visit, the king said he was “witnessed both continuity and great change.”
It is worth reflecting that Australia’s unique character has endured and also evolved, and that Australia has become a stronger nation as a result of becoming one of the most multicultural on Earth.
King notes Australia’s ‘long and sometimes difficult journey towards reconciliation’
King Charles III is now addressing the crowd at the parliamentary reception, saying he is “enormously touched” by the welcome.
Let me also say how deeply I appreciated this morning’s moving Welcome to Country ceremony, which offers me the opportunity to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet – the Ngunnawal people and all First Nations peoples who have loved and cared for this continent for 65,000 years.
In my many visits to Australia, I have witnessed the courage and hope that have guided the nation’s long and sometimes difficult journey towards reconciliation. Throughout my life, Australia’s First Nations peoples have done me the great honour of sharing so generously their stories and cultures. I can only say how much my own experience has been shaped and strengthened by such tradition and wisdom.
Dutton says Australia should ‘never take British inheritance for granted’
Peter Dutton told King Charles that his presence “reminds Australians of all of the things that we love about Britain” – as well as “our great British heritage”.
Representative democracy, the constitution, the separation of powers, the rule of law, the English language, freedom of speech, of association of the press, and so much more besides.
We should never take our British inheritance for granted. Australia has benefited from the stability of a democracy with the monarchy as our bedrock. Through times of peace and war, constitutional and parliamentary crises, good times and bad – Australians have known stability and have taken confidence knowing that there are better days ahead, because our institutions are protected and underpinned by the independence and stoicism of the reigning monarch.
Peter Dutton is now addressing the crowd at the parliamentary reception. The opposition leader took a moment to send his well wishes to Princess Catherine:
Upon your return home, your majesties, I know that you will convey Australia’s well wishes to the Princess of Wales.
‘The commonwealth is family’ – PM
Anthony Albanese has noted “decades of change” in Australia, stating that “bonds of respect and affection” have endured. He told King Charles during the address:
The Australia you first knew has grown and evolved in so many ways. Our communities have been strengthened and enriched from people drawn from every culture [and] background … As a modern, outward-looking economy, we found our place in the world and made our home in the region. We’ve gained a deeper and truer understanding of our national story. Yet through these decades of change, our bonds of respect and affection have matured and they have endured …
For Australia, the commonwealth is family. And, as with any family, we appreciate our differences … We know the institution is secure in your hands, and we know your commitment to peace and stability will act as your guide during the challenging times in which we find ourselves.
PM says king has ‘long apprehended the grave reality of climate change’
Anthony Albanese is now speaking at the parliamentary reception.
The prime minister told King Charles that as king, he has “an extraordinary duty to the traditions so carefully upheld, protected and generations of your forbearers, not least your mother, Queen Elizabeth II”.
He noted the king’s work towards addressing climate change, and said:
Your abiding duty to all that has been built on the foundations of tradition is balanced by a great responsibility to the future – both its serious challenges and its exciting possibilities.
You have long apprehended the grave reality of climate change. You take seriously the threat that it represents, as well as the necessity and, crucially, the capability of humanity to take meaningful and effective action against it.
Thorpe turns back on king
Karen Middleton
Senator Lidia Thorpe turned her back on King Charles and Queen Camilla as they stood to attention for the national anthem, sung in English and the local Ngunnawal Indigenous language.