Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, October twenty two. Everyone agrees it's better for
Speaker 2: elderly Australians to be cared for at home, but wait
Speaker 2: times have blown out, with families waiting nine months to
Speaker 2: access government support. Three years ago it was between thirty
Speaker 2: and ninety days. An outburst by firebrand Senator Lydia Thorpe
Speaker 2: has injected some energy into an otherwise dull Australian tour
Speaker 2: by King Charles and Queen Camilla. It's the King's first
Speaker 2: visit since becoming monarch and it's got everyone asking where's
Speaker 2: the razzle dazzle gone. Queen Elizabeth visited Australia for the
Speaker 2: first time in nineteen fifty four. She opened a session
Speaker 2: of Parliament in Canberra.
Speaker 3: It was a day that long will be remembered by
Speaker 3: the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2: She was twenty seven years old and dropped dead gorgeous.
Speaker 2: She wore a floor linked caps leaved white ball gown.
Speaker 3: But all Australia was eager for a sight of this
Speaker 3: young woman. Yeah too. It was the first time that
Speaker 3: the raining sovereign had landed on Australia's.
Speaker 2: Shores, satin gloves, a royal blue sash, a diamond tiara
Speaker 2: and earrings the size of gobstoppers. By her side was
Speaker 2: husband Philip in his white navy dress uniform, including a
Speaker 2: full chest of medals and a sword.
Speaker 3: All children, even if they can't go up to London,
Speaker 3: still like to see a queen.
Speaker 1: They were the most glass amorous thing ever to hit Australia.
Speaker 2: In nineteen eighty eight when the Queen opened the new
Speaker 2: Parliament House just a little.
Speaker 1: Way up the hill. The Queen was.
Speaker 2: Resplendent in head to toe hot pink and a sensational hat.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be a monarchist to wonder where
Speaker 2: the glamour's gone. And that's a deliberate choice by the King,
Speaker 2: partly because he's seventy five and going through cancer treatment,
Speaker 2: but also because Charles has spent the past decade preparing
Speaker 2: to relaunch the monarchy in his own image, less sparkle,
Speaker 2: more good works. They call it the slimmed down Monarchy.
Speaker 2: The nieces, nephews and cousins have been cast off to
Speaker 2: pay their own way, and Charles has shrunk the family
Speaker 2: of working royals to his own family, William Catherine, Camilla himself,
Speaker 2: and a few hard working outliers like Princess Anne. This
Speaker 2: is a man who still wears the same clothes he
Speaker 2: wore in his twenties, and on occasion his father, Prince
Speaker 2: Philip's old coats, which have been carefully patched and repaired.
Speaker 2: He reportedly eats half an avocado for lunch every day.
Speaker 2: Not half an avocado on top of something else, just
Speaker 2: half an avocado. It's all a bit flat, thank goodness.
Speaker 2: Then for Lydia Thorpe, the Senator gave a gift to
Speaker 2: the reporters covering the royal tour inside Parliament on Monday,
Speaker 2: marching towards the stage and screaming obscenities at the King.
Speaker 4: She was wearing a possum or kangaroo skin coat, so
Speaker 4: she cut quite a striking figure amongst the crowd of
Speaker 4: ministers and military officials.
Speaker 1: As such. Brihannon Down is a reporter in the Australian's
Speaker 1: Canbra Bureau.
Speaker 4: And then she was just pushed out of the hall
Speaker 4: by security officials. And then there's a sort of stunned silence,
Speaker 4: and then the string quartet struck up again and everyone
Speaker 4: just went.
Speaker 1: Back to mingling.
Speaker 2: In fact, while it was going on, he seemed to
Speaker 2: me to be just continuing to chat to Anthony Albanzi.
Speaker 2: He's quite good at not looking like he's bothered at all,
Speaker 2: isn't he?
Speaker 4: Yes, I did wonder what Anthony Albanize would have said
Speaker 4: to her him. I would have loved to have known.
Speaker 4: And as well. I saw Queen car Miller sort of
Speaker 4: give Jody Hayden at the out and easiest fiance. They
Speaker 4: sort of fled over to each other and had a
Speaker 4: little quiet word. So I'd love to know what they
Speaker 4: said to each other, But we can only imagine.
Speaker 2: Outside the war memorial, she'd actually provided the only other
Speaker 2: bit of drama in Canberra, Rhiannon.
Speaker 1: She's quite a colorful character.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's not that many senators who can ever
Speaker 4: Bragg to have gotten into a fight outside of strip
Speaker 4: club somewhere in Melbourne at three am.
Speaker 5: I want to say that the Black brothers there and
Speaker 5: anyone that won't fight well, any black man that stands
Speaker 5: with the like that.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 4: She was a very strong advocate in the Black Sovereign
Speaker 4: Movement during the Voice Referendum, where she was just very
Speaker 4: anti the voice. She saw this wet admission of colonial acceptance,
Speaker 4: which is something she she rails against. She thinks that
Speaker 4: sovereignty was never seated by gious people Lydia Thoughte never
Speaker 4: really missus an opportunity to make a stand when she
Speaker 4: sees a platform with plenty of cameras and plenty of
Speaker 4: media around, she cut a very unusual figure. About two
Speaker 4: years ago, she was attempting to storm the stage at
Speaker 4: anti trans women's rights rally outside Parliament House, and she
Speaker 4: was wearing these incredible heels and a skirt and sort
Speaker 4: of tripped over.
Speaker 1: The country should be ashamed this country now.
Speaker 5: I went to tell her that they are not welcomed
Speaker 5: me hours.
Speaker 4: She also made headlines when at Mardi Grass she lay
Speaker 4: down on the ground and tried to block the float,
Speaker 4: also making one of her political.
Speaker 2: Stands coming up how the King steered the day to
Speaker 2: be about his chosen topic. You can check out all
Speaker 2: our analysis and reporting of the royal tour at the
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Speaker 2: best journalism from around Australia and the world. Before the interruption,
Speaker 2: Charles had been making a speech that touched on one
Speaker 2: of the philosophies that's shaped his outlook the future of
Speaker 2: our planet. Charles is a committed environmentalist and his remarks
Speaker 2: would have touched the heart of even avowed Republican Anthony Albanezi.
Speaker 2: Charles segued into it by talking about all the times
Speaker 2: in his many visits he's met the survivors of bushfires,
Speaker 2: floods and cyclones.
Speaker 6: The regular role of unprecedented events is an unmistakable sign
Speaker 6: of climate change to which Australia is so particularly vulnerable, And.
Speaker 2: Where his mother scrupulously avoided expressing anything like a political
Speaker 2: view during her seven decades on the throne, Charles wade
Speaker 2: into a that's deeply partisan here in Australia.
Speaker 6: This is why Australia's international leadership on global initiatives to
Speaker 6: protect our climate and biodiversity is of such absolute and
Speaker 6: critical importance. Indeed, the world's first global Nature Positive Summit
Speaker 6: was held in Sydney in the past fortnight.
Speaker 2: Nature Positive is what Labour called a series of reforms
Speaker 2: shepherded by Environment Minister Tanyaplibisek and opposed by the Coalition
Speaker 2: and business, including tougher regulation that takes environmental impact into
Speaker 2: consideration on developments, a new regulatory authority and what's called
Speaker 2: a climate trigger that would say projects assessed on their
Speaker 2: emissions impact.
Speaker 6: Australia has all the natural ingredients to create a more sustainable,
Speaker 6: regenerative way of living. By harnessing the power with which
Speaker 6: nature has endowed the nation, whether it be wind or
Speaker 6: its famous sunshine, Australia is tracking the path towards a
Speaker 6: better and safer future. It is in all our interests
Speaker 6: to be good stewards of the world and good ancestors
Speaker 6: to those who come after us, because we are all connected,
Speaker 6: both as a global community and with all that sustains life.
Speaker 6: That is the timeless wisdom of indigenous people throughout the
Speaker 6: entire world, from which each one of us can benefit.
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