Australian Senate censures Indigenous member for King Charles protest Independent senator Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous activist, shouted that she didn’t accept Charles’ sovereignty over Australia.

The Senate has censured two of its own, Lidia Thorpe and Ralph Babet, both of whom were absent when the votes were taken because of problems with their flights to Canberra.

Australian Independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe gestures during a censure motion against her in the senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP) ...

The motion to suspend Thorpe was voted on without debate. Only the Greens opposed it – the colleagues whom Thorpe had deserted in 2023, for the freedom of being an independent.