I was out in the Bush in Victoria in 1966 trying to get the fire going was a problem because we didn't have one of those.
Everybody has choices but I come from a different era
I'm very honoured to join you,
That looked like a good exercise. I don’t think I can still do it at my age.”
We are proud sovereign people.”
Welcome to country. We’ve got stories to tell and I think you witnessed that story yesterday in Canberra but the story is unwavering and we’ve got a long way to achieve what we want to achieve and that’s our own sovereignty. But welcome to Gadigal land.”
You have shown great respect for Australians, even during times when we have debated the future of our own constitutional arrangements and the nature of our relationship with the Crown,
People have had haircuts, people have shined shoes, suits have been pressed and that's just the republicans,
Whether Australia becomes a republic is... a matter for the Australian public to decide,
Throughout my life, Australia's First Nations peoples have done me the great honor 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,
Let me also say how deeply I appreciated this morning's moving Welcome to Country ceremony, which offers me the opportunity to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet, the Ngunnawal people, and all First Nations peoples who have loved and cared for this continent for 65,000 years,
The Australian High Commission has done a lot of work on the return of artifacts — we continue to do that, both in respect of the British Museum, but also other holders of Australian indigenous artifacts,
We say to Charles and Camilla: 'Welcome, we hope you're enjoying our country and good health and good spirits.' But we also look forward to this being the final tour of a sitting Australian monarch,
You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty in this country. You are a genocidalist,
Wave Goodbye to Royal Reign with Monarchy: The Farewell Oz Tour!"
If we cannot find ways to make our countries more resilient to these shocks, we will not survive,
I see a family of some 2.5 billion people striving for peace, justice and mutual respect,
I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonizing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,
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,