During King Charles’s visit to the Australian Parliament, something happened that surprised people there. He had reached the Parliament of Australia. Then an MP, Lydia Thorpe, started raising slogans against him. The rest were surprised to see his actions. After King Charles’s speech, Thorpe started sloganeering. He said, this is not your land. Give back our land. In fact, even after 123 years of independence, Australia has not yet become a republic.
Australia’s independent MP opposed the monarchy and said, you are not our king nor is this land yours. King Charles had to stop his speech because of their sloganeering. After this the security personnel took Thorpe out. Let us tell you that Australia was a colony of Britain for almost a century. In 1901, an independent government was formed in Australia, but under the agreement with the British dynasty, the king here is King Charles. In such a situation, Australia has not become a full republic till date.
Currently Charles is in Australia on a 9-day official visit. This is his first foreign trip after suffering from cancer last year. This is not the first time Thorpe has opposed the monarchy. He opposed Queen Elizabeth II only after she was sworn in in 2022. At that time she was the head of state of Australia. He refused to take the oath in the name of Queen Elizabeth.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in the national capital Canberra on Monday. Charles (75) is undergoing treatment for cancer, due to which his travel schedule has been shortened. This is Charles’s 17th visit to Australia and his first since becoming Britain’s monarch in 2022.
Charles and Camilla rested the day after their arrival and made their first public appearance at a church service in Sydney on Sunday. He then proceeded to Canberra, where he visited the Memorial to the Unknown Australian Soldier. He then attended a reception hosted by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House.
He emerged from the war memorial and greeted hundreds of people. Government leaders from all six Australian states did not attend the reception. He declined the invitation on the grounds that he would prefer an Australian citizen as head of state rather than a British monarch. Albanese also wants Australia to become a republic, but has refused to hold a referendum on this during his current term.
