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JENI O’DOWD: Senator Thorpe’s vile outburst at King Charles wasn’t about drawing attention to the enduring harms of colonisation. As usual, it was all about her.

King Charles and Queen Camilla have delighted fans after getting on the tongs and helping cook for hundreds of people at an invite-only community BBQ at a park in western Sydney. 

A delighted Queen Camilla accepted ‘the most prestigious order’ ever bestowed by Australian food rescue charity OzHarvest at its restaurant in Surry Hills this morning. 

Respected Indigenous leaders have called out Senator Lidia Thorpe’s ‘disprespectful’ confrontation with King Charles where she shouted profanities and called the monarch a ‘genocidalist’.

King Charles has been greeted by traditional dancers and met with key Indigenous elders in Sydney on his last full day in the country.

Leila and Danny Abdallah lost three children to a drunk and drugged driver in 2020. On Monday they met Queen Camilla at the royal reception in Canberra.

Liberal leader Peter Dutton has called on Lidia Thorpe to resign after she heckled the King, questioning how she is happy to accept a quarter of a million dollars in salary from a system she doesn’t believe in.

Senator Lidia Thorpe has issued an explanation and deleted an image from her social media after facing fierce backlash from a third incident on Monday. 

A barbecue fit for a king and a trip to the harbour is on the agenda as the royal tour continues in Sydney following a visit to the nation's capital, with thousands expected to turn out to catch a glimpse of the royals.

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has backed his successor’s decision to all but shelve any campaign for Australia to become a republic. 

EDITORIAL: For most Australians, whether to sever ties with the British monarchy is not a pressing concern. Not when we’ve got dual housing and cost-of-living crises occupying our agenda.

A shouting senator, a sneezing alpaca and a fiery science demonstration made King Charles’ first visit to Canberra as monarch a lively day.

Princes William and Harry were repeatedly invited to party with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, it has been revealed — with the rapper apparently obsessed with the pair.

Senator Lidia Thorpe has been removed from an official ceremony for King Charles at Parliament House as he finished his speech, yelling: ‘This is not your land.’

King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra where they were met with loud cheers from around a thousand onlookers - and even a sneezing alpaca named Hephner.