King says Australia’s climate leadership of ‘critical importance’ in Parliament House address disrupted by Indigenous senator’s protest

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King Charles III has declared Australia’s leadership on climate change is of “absolute and critical importance” in a lightning-fast visit to Canberra, blemished only by a senator’s protest about the involvement of the monarchy in stealing Aboriginal land.

In an address in the Great Hall of Parliament House on Monday, King Charles acknowledged the “grief and shock” Australians had faced over recent years because of catastrophic weather events.