CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian senators on Monday voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month.
The censure of independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe is a symbolic gesture that records her colleagues’ disapproval of her conduct during the first visit to Australia by a British monarch in 13 years.
The motion was carried 46 votes to 12.
Government leader in the Senate Penny Wong said Thorpe’s outburst sought to “incite outrage and grievance.”
“This is part of a trend that we do see internationally which, quite frankly, we do not need here in Australia,” Wong told the Senate.
Thorpe launched an expletive-laden rant
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