Independent senator and Indigenous activist Lidia Thorpe shouted that she did not accept Charles' sovereignty over Australia moments after he delivered a speech in which he paid his "respects to the traditional owners of the lands".

Australia was working through similar requests from other Pacific island leaders, he said. Tens of thousands of Pacific islanders are working in Australia under a labour scheme and receive the same benefits as their Australian counterparts,

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe has been censured over her confrontation of King Charles, and Clive Palmer-backed senator Ralph Babet is censured over offensive comments he made online following the election of Donald Trump.

The censure motion against Ralph Babet has also passed in the Senate. It passed “on the voices”, without a formal vote being called for. As mentioned earlier, opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham called Babet’s tweets “repugnant”,

After confronting the British monarch during his royal visit to Australia, independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been officially censured by her colleagues