Royal news live: Indigenous protestor arrested by police after attempting to confront King Charles in Sydney

Lidia Thorpe’s colleagues have responded to her confrontation of King Charles during his visit to the country’s parliament.

Senator Ralph Babet took to social media to condemn Ms Thorpe’s comments, in which she told Charles “you are not my King,” and accused him of committing “genocide against our people”.

He wrote on X: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the actions of Senator Lidia Thorpe today at Parliament House where she hurled verbal abuse at our King.

To show such utter disrespect to King Charles, who has traveled to Australia, despite ongoing cancer treatment, is disgusting. Senator Thorpe has disgraced not only herself and the Australian Parliament, but every Australian man, woman and child.

“Senator Thorpe demanded an apology from King Charles, I’d say it’s King Charles and the Australian people that should be demanding an apology from Senator Thorpe.”

The King and Queen after continuing their tour of Australia after they were confronted by an Indigenous MP during their parliamentary adress.

It is understood the King was unruffled and did not let the outburst overshadow what the royal party viewed as a wonderful day in the Australian capital, which had seen them greet hundreds of well-wishers at the national war memorial – including a sneezing alpaca.

Earlier, hundreds of people had gathered outside Australia’s parliament house for a chance to meet the royal couple.

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In his speech to the Australian parliament on Monday, Charles spoke affectionately about his relationship with Australia, a country he first visited as a teenager, saying he arrived as an “adolescent” and left more “chiselled” after his experience studying in the Outback.

He also highlighted the debt he owed to Australia’s Indigenous people.

Charles said: “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 traditional wisdom.”

During his parliamentary address on Monday, Australian senator Lidia Thorpe confronted King Charles, telling him  “You are not my King”.

She is an Indigenous independent politician and became the first Aboriginal senator for the state of Victoria in 2020.

Born into family of prominent Aboriginal activists, Thorpe regularly speaks out about the monarchy’s impact on Indigenous people.

She was sworn into parliament wearing a traditional possum-skin cloak in 2020, carrying an Aboriginal message stick with 441 marks, representing each Indigenous person who had died at the time since the 1991 royal commission into deaths in custody.

In 2022, she was forced to re-do her oath into parliament after she referred to the late Queen Elizabeth as “the colonising Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II”.

The Prince of Wales has shared the simple parenting motto he and the Princess of Wales use to keep their young children happy at an engagement.

William, 42, made the revelation while attending a game hosted by the NFL Foundation UK in London on Tuesday, where he was gifted a football for Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six.

Expressing his appreciation for the gift at the Kennington Park hockey pitch, he said: “Oh, that’s very kind. Never go home empty handed! That’s a crucial motto of being a parent.