Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe was removed from a parliamentary reception for King Charles in Canberra on Monday after shouting "you are not my king" and "this is not your country".
After Charles, who is on a tour of the country accompanied by Queen Camilla, finished speaking at Parliament House on Monday afternoon, Senator Thorpe walked up the aisle towards the stage and out to the royals.
"You committed genocide against our people," the Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung Senator said.
"Give us our land back, give us what you stole from us."
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As parliamentary officials began to step forward to prevent her reaching the stage, footage posted online showed the Senator saying: "Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people—you destroyed our land."
"Give us a treaty. We want a treaty in this country."
As she was being escorted out, Senator Thorpe yelled: "This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king."
Footage from Nine's 2GB then shows King Charles seated and watching before the Prime Minister leans over and says something to him and appears to smile.
Once in the foyer, it was reported Senator Thorpe could be heard shouting: "F**k the colony."
The Senator has been an outspoken advocate for Blak sovereignty and a critic of the royal family, and on Monday said First Peoples "never ceded our Sovereignty over this land".
"The Crown invaded this country, has not sought treaty with First Peoples, and committed a Genocide of our people. King Charles is not the legitimate Sovereign of these lands," she said in a statement.
She said Australia had "unfinished business that we need to resolve before this country can become a republic", arguing this "must happen through Treaty".
In a statement late on Monday afternoon, Senator Thorpe said she had intended to hand King Charles a "notice of complicity in the Genocide of the First Peoples of this county".
Krauatungalung Elder, Uncle Robbie Thorpe, first issued the notice to the International Criminal Court on October 13. It requested King Charles be charged and prosecuted for genocide, the Senator said.
"The visit by the so-called King should be an occasion of Truth-telling about the true history of this country," she said.
"The colonial state has been built on the continuing Genocide on First Peoples."
Footage showed the Senator turning her back on the King when the national anthem was played.
She argued she had been "silenced and removed" when she was removed from Parliament.
"The truth is, this colony is built on stolen land, stolen wealth and stolen lives," Senator Thorpe said.
"The British Crown committed heinous crimes against the First Peoples of this country. These crimes include war crimes, crimes against humanity and failure to prevent genocide. There has been no justice for these crimes. The Crown must be held accountable."
She then said the federal police has attempted to arrest her for wearing a 'Stolen Land, Stolen Lives, Stolen Wealth' shirt.
"I was at a rally to call out the crimes committed by the Crown. This is a clear attack on free speech and expression, at the war memorial of all places," she said.
"Today we call for justice, an end to this ongoing genocide, for Treaty and a republic. We want to be able to live in peace and finally come together as a nation."
