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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on Lidia Thorpe heckling King Charles and the reaction from politicians · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The protests certainly got some reaction and some headlines didn't it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Australian Senator Lydia Thorpe reaction. Donna Demeyo,
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  Speaker 1: Our Australia corresponds with us Donna, good morning. What has
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  Speaker 1: the reaction been.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we're quite a hostile reception for the Royals in
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  Speaker 2: Canberra and it was just a few meters away that
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  Speaker 2: the Royal couple sat through this rather intense heckling from
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  Speaker 2: the Independent Senator Lydia Thorpe. The reaction, of course has
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  Speaker 2: been quite swift. We know that the Australian Monarchist League
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  Speaker 2: wants her to step down immediately, calling the protest a childish.
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  Speaker 2: Then we heard from Australia's first female Aboriginal senator, Nova Paris,
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  Speaker 2: and she's actually issued what some people are saying is
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  Speaker 2: literally an apoll to the King, saying it was a
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  Speaker 2: rude outburst and a disrespectful attempt to confront the King.
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  Speaker 2: We know that the senator was escorted out by security.
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  Speaker 2: There was even an expletely yelled out in fact, as
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  Speaker 2: Camilla and Charles sat there. There was no reaction from
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  Speaker 2: the Royals. Mind you. The PM also was in the
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  Speaker 2: Room and his fiancee and Peter Dutton, quite a selection
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  Speaker 2: of politicians of course. But we've also heard from front
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  Speaker 2: benches from both sides and they're saying it was just
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  Speaker 2: grand standing and it actually just failed miserably.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, lots of reaction coming from the UK as well,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll get to some of that in a second,
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  Speaker 1: but very quickly, Donna, there's a massive compensation bill coming
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  Speaker 1: for Quantas.
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  Speaker 2: Huge Quandas is facing a well about one hundred million
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  Speaker 2: dollar plus payout for illegal sackings. It's a hefty bill
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  Speaker 2: for unlawfully laying off staff during the pandemic and it
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  Speaker 2: impacts about seventeen hundred workers that lost their job in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Now they've got to get together, the lawyers
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  Speaker 2: will get together and tender mediation to determine that final
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  Speaker 2: amount payout.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Donna, thank you very much for that. That's
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  Speaker 1: done into our Australia Correspondent.
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