An Australian senator who confronted King Charles in parliament has shared a cartoon showing the monarch beheaded on social media. Lidia Thorpe, 51, an outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights, shouted at the King in a fiery address during his royal reception in Great Hall of Parliament House on Monday.

During his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday, King Charles was accused of genocide by Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries. This came moments after the monarch delivered a speech in which he paid his ‘respects to the traditional owners of the lands’.

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe has responded to calls for her resignation after her King Charles protest in Parliament. Spoiler: She won't.

You committed genocide against our people’An Australian politician shouted “you are not my King” at Charles III during his

King Charles III is ending the first visit to Australia by a reigning British monarch in 13 years with anti-monarchists hoping his journey is a step toward an Australian citizen becoming head of state

Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe was removed from an event at Australia’s parliament after accusing the British royal family of “genocide” and stealing land.

Charles, on his 16th official visit to Australia and his first major foreign trip since being diagnosed with cancer, had finished speaking when independent senator and Indigenous activist Lidia Thorpe shouted that she did not accept Charles' sovereignty over Australia.

Britain's King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia's urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra.