23 Oct 2024

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 23 October 2024
Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive to attend a Sunday morning service at St Thomas' Anglican Church in Sydney on October 20, 2024, during their six-day royal visit to Sydney and Canberra.

Photo: Dean Lewins / POOL / AFP

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton discusses the reaction after King Charles and Queen Camilla were shouted at by an Indigenous senator, danced at by a bunch of students outside the Sydney Opera House and spat on by Hephner the alpaca.

And Former right-wing Catholic union leader Joe de Bruyn has sparked a walkout at the Australian Catholic University after he used the platform afforded him by the bestowing of an honorary doctorate to advocate against abortion in Australia. 

Karen Middleton is political editor of the Guardian Australia.

 

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