Lidia Thorpe’s outburst in Parliament during King Charles III’s visit is just the latest in a long list of controversial stunts masterminded by the independent senator.
From defending her ex-boyfriend from deportation to shouting profanities outside a Melbourne strip club at 3am, Ms Thorpe, 51, has kept Australians on their toes since being sworn into the Senate in 2022.
Still, she managed to top her list of stunts on Monday when she aggressively interrupted King Charles’ royal reception in Parliament in front of stunned guests.
Shortly after His Majesty finished his speech praising Australia, Ms Thorpe launched a foul-mouthed tirade, shouting ‘f**k the colony’ and ‘you are not my king’.
“You have committed genocide against our people,” she shouted, dressed in a native fur coat.
‘Give us our country back. Give us what you stole from us.
“Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You have destroyed our country.
‘Give us our treaties. We want a treaty in this country. You are a genocide plotter. This is not your country, this is not your country.’
Ms Thorpe, wearing a native fur coat (pictured), repeatedly shouted: ‘Not my king’ before being removed from the room by security on Monday
Ms Thorpe (pictured at a protest in 2022) has repeatedly made headlines for her divisive protests and opinions
Ms Thorpe then repeatedly shouted ‘not my king’ before being removed from the room by security.
She was previously a member of the Greens before leaving the party and declaring herself independent in February 2023 during her No campaign to an indigenous voice in parliament.
“Now I will be able to speak freely on all issues from a sovereign perspective, without being limited by portfolios and agreed party positions,” she said at the time.
‘MPs, members and sympathizers of the Greens have told me that they want to support the vote. This is at odds with the community of activists who consider the treaty more important than the vote.’
In September 2022, shortly after taking her position in the Senate, she faced harsh backlash after leading a protest against the monarchy during which the wrong weapon was smeared with fake blood.
Thousands of protesters had gathered against British colonization in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra during the national day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.
The most dramatic scenes took place in Melbourne, where protesters burned the Australian flag and smeared a royal emblem with red dye.
Thorpe was infamously filmed verbally attacking a group of men outside a Melbourne strip club (pictured)
In early 2023, Ms Thorpe (pictured) disrupted a ‘Let Woman Speak’ event outside Parliament House in Canberra, held by controversial women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull
However, demonstrators demonstrating outside the building that houses the British Consulate unknowingly smeared the wrong royal emblem with fake blood, destroying the coat of arms of the Portuguese monarchy.
Ms Thorpe was a leading voice in the protest, addressing the crowd with hands dripping with fake blood.
‘The Crown has blood on their hands. Our people are still dying every day in this country,” she said.
“The boot of the Crown is around our necks and we are sick of it.”
She followed the stunt with more antics in 2023, including getting into an infamous brawl outside a strip club in Melbourne.
David Ross, the general manager of Maxine’s Gentlemen’s Club in Melbourne’s north, previously told Daily Mail Australia that Ms Thorpe had approached “white men” and “told them they were stealing her land” before the 3am viral spray .
The senator was filmed unleashing herself on a group of men, threateningly telling one, “You have a small penis,” and another, “You’re scarred.”
One of the men called her a ‘racist dog’ to which she responded with ‘f*** you’ as a friend stopped her.
She told the men, “The one thing I want to say to the black brothers out there and to everyone we’re fighting against…
‘Any black man standing like that with that damn white little c*** – you (sic) can get f*cked up too!’
One of the men then asked: ‘How on earth does someone like you get into parliament?’
She hit back: “We’ve been oppressed in this country all our damn lives and you made this little dog speak.”
Ms Thorpe’s previous relationship with motorcycle boss Dean Martin (pictured together) was back in the spotlight earlier this year after she claimed the government had made a mistake by revoking his visa on character grounds.
Ms Thorpe faced backlash after protesters at a protest she led smeared fake blood on the wrong weapon (pictured)
After watching footage of Ms Thorpe’s confrontation, Mr Ross said she would no longer be welcome at the strip club.
In February 2023, Ms Thorpe clashed with police after interrupting Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade.
She had lain down in the middle of the procession as it moved along Oxford Street, prompting the large crowd to ‘boo’ at her.
Daily Mail Australia saw Ms Thorpe suddenly drive into the police section of the parade, with her arms crossed above her head, shouting ‘f**k the Police’.
After chasing officers as they marched, she repeatedly shouted her slogan in their faces as others confronted her.
She then jumped in front of the Australian Federal Police float and lay on the ground, causing it to stop.
Ms Thorpe later said she was ‘proud’ of her action.
“Black and brown trans women started the first pride march to protest police brutality,” she wrote on Twitter.
‘Today we are still confronted with violence from the police. I’m proud to have joined the #PrideInProtest float in Sydney to say #NoPrideInGenocide, #NoPrideInPrisons and #NoCopsInPride.”
Ms Thorpe’s previous relationship with former motorcycle boss Dean Martin was back in the spotlight earlier this year after she claimed the government had made a mistake by revoking his visa on character grounds.
The New Zealander is a former national president of the Rebels motorcycle gang and had an infamous relationship with Ms Thorpe while she was part of a committee investigating motorcycle gangs.
In 2022, Ms Thorpe (right) marched onto the floor of Parliament with a Black Power salute to take her parliamentary oath
Despite claims she was quietly expelled from the Greens for failing to disclose the relationship, Ms Thorpe came to Martin’s defense in July.
Ms Thorpe said that although she had not spoken to Martin, she believed “the government had made a mistake with this decision”.
“Mr Martin has the proof, support and recognition that he is Aboriginal from the elders and community in Lutruwita Tasmania,” she said.
“We have already seen the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2020 that the Commonwealth has no constitutional power to deport First Peoples under the Migration Act.
“The 2020 ruling reflected the Mabo decision, which recognized that First Peoples’ ties to this land have never been severed.”
Martin managed to avoid deportation in August after proving his indigenous heritage.
Ms Thorpe has also made enemies within other left-wing movements, disrupting a ‘Let Woman Speak’ event outside Parliament House in Canberra in early 2023, held by controversial women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull.
Wrapped in an Aboriginal flag, Ms Thorpe made her way towards Ms Keen-Minshull before being intercepted and taken down by police.
She crawled across the lawn and walked towards a group of more than a hundred pro-trans counter-protesters.
The independent senator from the ‘black sovereignty’ movement later claimed she had been ‘pulverized’ by police and said Ms Keen-Minshull – who she called ‘filth’ – was not allowed to speak on Aboriginal land.
Even Ms. Thorpe’s first act as senator was controversial.
Mrs Thorpe (pictured among the crowd) told King Charles on Monday: ‘You have committed genocide against our people’
She had marched to the floor of Parliament with a Black Power salute to take her parliamentary oath.
After raising her right fist, Mrs Thorpe sarcastically vowed to serve the monarchy.
She added her own twist to the oath, saying, “I will be faithful and faithful to the colonizing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.”