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Lidia Thorpe makes herself a royal pain · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, October twenty two. Everyone agrees it's better for
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  Speaker 1: elderly Australians to be cared for at home, but wait
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  Speaker 1: times have blown out, with families waiting nine months to
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  Speaker 1: access government support. Three years ago it was between thirty
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  Speaker 1: and ninety days. An outburst by firebrand Senator Lydia Thorpe
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  Speaker 1: has injected some energy into an otherwise dull Australian tour
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  Speaker 1: by King Charles and Queen Camilla. It's the King's first
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  Speaker 1: visit since becoming monarch and it's got everyone asking where's
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  Speaker 1: the razzle dazzle gone. Queen Elizabeth visited Australia for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in nineteen fifty four. She opened a session
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  Speaker 1: of Parliament in Canberra.
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  Speaker 2: It was a day that long will be remembered by
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  Speaker 2: the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 1: She was twenty seven years old and dropped dead gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: She wore a floor linked capsleaved white ball gown.
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  Speaker 2: But all Australia was eager for a sight of this
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  Speaker 2: young woman. Yeah too. It was the first time that
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  Speaker 2: the raining sovereign had landed on Australia's.
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  Speaker 1: Shores, satin gloves, a royal blue sash, a diamond tiara
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  Speaker 1: and earrings the size of gobstoppers. By her side was
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  Speaker 1: husband Philip in his white navy dress uniform, including a
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  Speaker 1: full chest of medals and a sword.
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  Speaker 2: All children, even if they can't go up to London,
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  Speaker 2: still like to see a queen.
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  Speaker 1: They were the most glas amorous thing ever to hit
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  Speaker 1: Australia in nineteen eighty eight when the Queen opened the
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  Speaker 1: new Parliament House just a little way up the hill.
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  Speaker 1: The Queen was resplendent in head to toe hot pink
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  Speaker 1: and a sensational hat. You don't have to be a
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  Speaker 1: monarchist to wonder where the glamour's gone. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: deliberate choice by the King, partly because he's seventy five
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  Speaker 1: and going through cancer treatment, but also because Charles has
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  Speaker 1: spent the past decade preparing to relaunch the monarchy in
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  Speaker 1: his own image, less sparkle, more good works. They call
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  Speaker 1: it the slimmed down Monarchy. The nieces, nephews and cousins
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  Speaker 1: have been cast off to pay their own way, and
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  Speaker 1: Charles has shrunk the family of working royals to his
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  Speaker 1: own family, William Catherine, Camilla himself, and a few hard
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  Speaker 1: working outliers like Princess Anne. This is a man who
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  Speaker 1: still wears the same clothes he wore in his twenties,
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  Speaker 1: and on occasion his father, Prince Philip's old coats, which
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  Speaker 1: have been carefully patched and repaired. He reportedly eats half
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  Speaker 1: an avocado for lunch every day. Not half an avocado
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  Speaker 1: on top of something else, just half an avocado. It's
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  Speaker 1: all a bit flat, thank goodness. Then for Lydia Thorpe,
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  Speaker 1: the Senator gave a gift to the reporters covering the
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  Speaker 1: royal tour inside Parliament on Monday, marching towards the stage
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  Speaker 1: and screaming obscenities at the King.
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  Speaker 3: She was wearing a possum or kangaroo skin coat, so
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  Speaker 3: she cut quite a striking figure amongst the crowd of
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  Speaker 3: ministers and military officials. As such.
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  Speaker 1: Brihann and Down is a reporter in the Australian's Canbra Bureau.
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  Speaker 3: And then she was just pushed out of the hall
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  Speaker 3: by security officials. And then there's a sort of stunned silence,
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  Speaker 3: and then the string quartet struck up again and Nevy
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  Speaker 3: I just went back to Mingley.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, while it was going on, he seemed to
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  Speaker 1: me to be just continuing to chat to Anthony Albanzi.
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  Speaker 1: He's quite good at not looking like he's bothered at all,
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  Speaker 1: isn't he?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I did wonder what Anthony ALBANIZI would have said
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  Speaker 3: to have him. I would have loved to have known.
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  Speaker 3: And as well, I saw Queen car Miller sort of
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  Speaker 3: give Jody Hayden at the ob easiest fiance. They sort
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  Speaker 3: of fled over to each other and had a little
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  Speaker 3: quiet word. So I'd love to know what they said
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  Speaker 3: to each other, but we can only imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Outside the War Memorial, she'd actually provided the only other
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  Speaker 1: bit of drama in Canberra, Rhiannon. She's quite a colorful character.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's not that many senators who can ever
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  Speaker 3: Bragg to have gotten into a fight outside of strip
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  Speaker 3: club somewhere in Melbourne at three am. I want to
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  Speaker 3: say that black.
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  Speaker 1: Brothers there and anyone.
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  Speaker 3: That won't any black man that stands with one like that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she was a very strong advocate in the
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  Speaker 3: Black Sovereign Movement during the Voice Referendum, where she was
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  Speaker 3: just very anti the voice. She saw it a but
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  Speaker 3: admission of colonial acceptance, which is something she she rails against.
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  Speaker 3: She thinks that sovereignty was never seated.
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  Speaker 1: By gigenous people.
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  Speaker 3: Lydia Thoughte never really missus an opportunity to make a
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  Speaker 3: stand when she sees a platform with plenty of cameras
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  Speaker 3: and plenty of media around, she cut a very unusual figure.
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  Speaker 3: About two years ago, she was attempting to storm the
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  Speaker 3: stage at anti trans women's rights rally outside Parliament House,
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  Speaker 3: and she was wearing these incredible heels and a skirt
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  Speaker 3: and sort of tripped over.
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  Speaker 4: The country should be ashamed this country now.
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  Speaker 2: I went to tell her that.
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  Speaker 1: They are not welcome hours.
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  Speaker 3: She also made headlines when at Mardi Gras she lay
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  Speaker 3: down on the ground and tried to block the float,
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  Speaker 3: also making one of her political.
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  Speaker 1: Stands coming up how the King steered the day to
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  Speaker 1: be about his chosen topic. You can check out all
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  Speaker 1: our analysis and reporting of the royal tour at the
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  Speaker 1: Australian dot com dot au all the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: best journalism from around Australia and the world. Before the interruption,
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  Speaker 1: Charles had been making a speech that touched on one
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  Speaker 1: of the philosophies that shaped his outlook the future of
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  Speaker 1: our planet. Charles is a committed environmentalist and his remarks
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  Speaker 1: would have touched the heart of even avowed Republican Anthony Albanezi.
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  Speaker 1: Charles segued into it by talking about all the times
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  Speaker 1: in his many visits he's met the survivors of bushfires,
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  Speaker 1: floods and cyclones.
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  Speaker 4: The regular role of unprecedented events is an unmistakable sign
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  Speaker 4: of climate change to which Australia is so particularly vulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: And where his mother scrupulously avoided expressing anything like a
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  Speaker 1: political view during her seven decades on the throne, Charles
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  Speaker 1: wade into a talk that's deeply partisan here in Australia.
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  Speaker 4: This is why Australia's international leadership on global initiatives to
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  Speaker 4: protect our climate and biodiversity is of such absolute and
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  Speaker 4: critical importance. Indeed, the world's first global Nature Positive Summit
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  Speaker 4: was held in Sydney in the past fortnight.
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  Speaker 1: Nature Positive is what Labour called a series of reforms
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  Speaker 1: shepherded by Environment Minister Tanuaplibisek and opposed by the Coalition
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  Speaker 1: in Business, including tougher regulation that takes environmental impact into consideration.
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  Speaker 1: On developments, a new regulatory authority and what's called a
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  Speaker 1: climate trigger that would say projects assessed on their emissions impact.
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  Speaker 4: Australia has all the natural ingredients to create a more sustainable,
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  Speaker 4: regenerative way of living. By harnessing the power with which
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  Speaker 4: nature has endowed the nation, whether it be wind or
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  Speaker 4: its famous sunshine, Australia is tracking the path towards a
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  Speaker 4: better and safer future. It is in all our interests
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  Speaker 4: to be good stewards of the world and good ancestors
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  Speaker 4: to those who come after us, because we are all connected,
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  Speaker 4: both as a global community and with all that sustains life.
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  Speaker 4: That is the timeless wisdom of indigenous people throughout the
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  Speaker 4: entire world, from which each one of us can benefit.
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