Senator Lidia Thorpe waited until the end of a landmark speech Charles gave at Australia's Parliament House to verbally attack him and claim "genocide" had been committed against the Commonwealth country's indigenous people.

King Charles faced a verbal attack by indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe during his Australian parliament speech as the senator called him to return indigenous remains and land. Explaining her action, Thorpe told Sky News that Charles should answer for the thousands of massacre sited in Australia.