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An Aboriginal senator was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for King Charles III and his wife, Camila, in Australia on Monday, after yelling that he'd"committed genocide against our people" and demanding a treaty between between British colonizers and Australia 's Indigenous people.Sen.
She was stopped by security from directly approaching Charles, who spoke quietly with the prime minister until she was escorted out while yelling, “You are not our King,” The heckling has re-sparked online conversations about Australia's relationship to the British crown; Australians decided in 1999 to retain then-Queen Elizabeth II as head of state are estimated to have died in conflicts in Australia between when the British first colonized in the late 1700s and the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
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