heckling

On Monday, an Australian senator defended heckling the King and accusing him of genocide after he addressed Parliament House, telling the BBC "he's not of this land".

Although republican sentiment bubbles under the surface here, except for the heckling in Parliament it has not burst through in any significant way on this trip.

It comes as backlash over an Aboriginal senator's heckling of King Charles in Canberra on Monday intensifies, with politicians and some Indigenous leaders condemning Lidia Thorpe's behaviour.

Some Indigenous leaders have criticised an Australian senator’s heckling of King Charles, as she faces a backlash over a violent image of the monarch briefly posted to her social media account.

On Tuesday, Foreign Secretary David Lammy faced angry scenes and heckling in the Commons, when he made a statement on the Chagos deal with Mauritius.