National Don't miss out on the headlines from National. Followed categories will be added to My News. A letter has emerged showing Lidia Thorpe had “respectfully” requested a personal meeting with King Charles to discuss a path to Treaty more than a year ago.
The outspoken senator was on Thursday branded “the most loathed woman in parliament” after her controversial outburst this week during Charles’ fist visit to Australia since his coronation. The Victorian politician cried “f*** the colony” and “you are not my king” before being escorted from Parliament House’s Great Hall during a ceremony in Canberra on Monday. Now Ms Thorpe’s March 2023 letter addressed to the monarch at Buckingham Palace has been published online, in which she wanted to explore “the possibility of a meeting and co-operation going forward”.
Ms Thorpe – a Djab Wurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjama woman – is a leader of the Blak Sovereign Movement and fierce critic of colonialism. Senator Lidia Thorpe heckles King Charles. Picture: Victoria Jones/Getty Images Her 2023 letter sent to the King.
Sent before then-Prince Charles became Charles III in May, her letter stated a “war was declared on my people” 200 years ago and described an “attempted genocide” on First Nations peoples. Ms Thorpe went on to say “we yearn for nothing more than peace” and that “Treaty can bring us peace”. “Sir, in light of your commitment to decolonisation, I respectfully request a meeting wi.
