Protesters calling for the monarchy to be abolished smeared the Australian flag with fake blood as they paraded through central Melbourne on a public holiday to mourn the Queen.
“You want to mourn the coloniser who brought the pain and the genocide and the murders here to our people. Shame,” Thorpe said. “The Crown’s boot is on our neck and we’re sick of it. And we are here to fight for our rights as the first people of these lands.” That did not appear to be the British symbol and was more probably associated with the Cartier store that occupies the building’s ground floor.
Uncle Charlie and around 500 supporters of Indigenous rights, rejecting a public holiday mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II.She pointed to Premier Daniel Andrews’ election commitment this week to replace the Aboriginal name of a rebuilt Maroondah Hospital with a tribute to the Queen as “a step backwards” and a “painful message” to First Nations people.
His grandfather-figure Sir Douglas Nicholas was the first Aboriginal person to be knighted in Australia – a title Murray said he did not believe in but brought Nicholas “extra weapons” to negotiate with.that advocates needed to continue to fight for Aboriginal self-determination and sovereignty.
The queens role rides on the back of racial plunder. Down with royalty
Maybe Lidia would prefer to live in a Country that has rejected its ‘colonisation’. Somalia is now a Republic and I hear it’s nice in summer!
Looks like a promo for MMA. The Senate has lost its credibility with Lidia’s antics. Ask Lidia about the old white man Attorney General in NT!
Welcome to country, activists on welfare everywhere ?
is that you lidia, who are your parents ?
Maybe they should learn how our system of government works
Don’t get angry just vote No
Send in the cavalry
I agree with these people and yet they embarrass me. What terrible timing.
We all had to go into work as normal. Just another work day for me. We should be a republic.
Welcome they Move to China 🇨🇳 or Russia 🇷🇺…
It’s my country too and I say yes to the Monarchy.
So we can take a day off the mourn the queen but not a national public holiday for Sorry Day?
It wasn’t the monarchy that colonised Australia, it was the British government. Does anyone know what a constitutional monarchy actually is? Lydia Thorpe is a divisive disgrace.
yeah like we be better off with these haters running the country
They are lucky this ain't Game of Thrones because we all know what Joffrey would do.
Fools, it should be 'Republic for All Australians', we CANNOT abolish the monarchy. Didn't these people go to school.
We're always being told how we should respect THEIR culture, so how about them respecting ours. Not much evidence of a desire for unity or integration here. I don't suppose any of them were arrested as the authorities are too frightened of the 'R' word. Whatif we burned THEIRflag
The sad thing is they are right. They do have a boot on their neck. But its not the Crown. It's our government. Which Queen or King or not, will still have the weight on their necks, Republic or not.
What the hell is wrong with her she need locking up.
they really need to stop funding leftists courses
Reasons to abolish the monarchy: - 𝘶𝘩. 𝘪𝘵'𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥. Reasons not to: - The cost of overhauling our entire governmental structure for almost zero benefit. - The governor-general failsafe. - Connection to our settler heritage.
total disrespectful to a woman who is sadly dead and has nothing to do with the first European settlement in Australia. It's actually time to abolish Greens and SenatorThorpe AbolishTheGreens AbolishSenatorLidiaThorpe
Spiteful mutants all
Legends
Rejected that public holiday so hard that they didn't go to work. Such commitment to the cause. Stunning. Brave.
Of course it was in Melbourne, people in Melbourne do not know anything else other than protesting
Always white women with something to complain about 🙄
“Rejecting the public holiday” By not going to work and instead attending a protest!
Maybe they're angry cause prince Andrew touched their smelly bits
They didn't really reject the public holiday, they just spent it protesting.
The lazy people taking a day off to protest , they should have been working if they disagree with the holiday
If it weren't for the queen these people could have done something with their lives
Rejecting the public holiday? So why weren't they all working?
It looks like we are about 1/5th of the way through the Book of Indigenous Complaints. At this rate, the book looks to be finished sometime in the year 2250🤦♂️ AbolishTheMonarchy it must be their fault
So many triggered white people in the comments😂😂
This is how a Politician treats our Flag. 😡
Yet they took the day off, or got paid double time, some might find that ......
You can tell this lot doesn't do a lot during their week days when they spend a day off doing shit like this.
I hope all these concerned citizens will be boycotting the AFL, and protesting the GrandFinalParade and the game, because, you know, it’s all about Indigenous Australians. 🤷🏻♀️
English settlers really were way too nice 230 odd years ago. Abolish Centrelink payments NOW!!!
Any excuse for a big piss-up. As 99.9% of the protestors are dole bludgers, I am not sure why they couldn't have done this on another day.
This will further delay a Republic. Aborigines these days are not challenged by the media for fear of been called, you guessed it....RACIST!
Rejecting a holiday while being on holiday? Sure run with that
They weren't at work so they took the 'colonists' public holiday?
AUST 1901 Independent country,all other commonwealth nations given independence from Q back to their society by 1998, HK, INDIA,ETC.Incorporation is NOT A GOV,act of War against AUST under our established FED Law 1990-2022.USA enacted WW3 against Terrorism to commit it 2001-2022.
Ironic. Senator Lidia Thorpe protests the Queen's reign yet she is the one who sits in the house which approved the white Australia policy and legislation related to the stolen generations. Pathetic excuse of a politician, more likened to an anarchist...
Ferals!
Guarantee they are all on welfare
Must be millions of them protesting by now, given how the media loves to blow these leftie woke protests completely out of proportion
14 Days mourning…..absolutely crazy. Australia you are better than this, much better. Time to end the monarchy in Australia. A totally dysfunctional family ‘ruling’ from the other side of the planet….totally ridiculous. No place for an hereditary monarchy in a modern democracy
Not surprise this happened on the streets of Melbourne the crime and drug capital of Australia also regarded as a floating sewer as they stink of urine and rubbish thanks to Melbourne City Council
aboriginalEMPIRE steal from Australian’s back pocket everyday. The voice is a distraction from what they have already achieved. This country doesn’t get to move without consent or $$ taken back 50% of country on the quite already. What a pathetic race ..
Don't complain when their welfare comes in
When the peasants at your remote penal colony start yelling in the streets
What’s the bet they took the pay for todays public holiday. Well those who work.
The aboriginal culture becomes degraded by these extremists claims to represent them.
These people are so embarrassing 😂
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