Politics latest: Lidia Thorpe blasted by Tony Abbott for disrupting King Charles' address to parliament
Tony Abbott was among the attendees critical of Lidia Thorpe's foul-mouthed spray during a reception for King Charles and Camilla at parliament house, while the Senator says she intended to hand the king ‘a notice of complicity in genocide' | WATCH
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