Australia's Senate on Monday censured an Indigenous woman parliamentarian over her protest against King Charles during his visit to the parliament last month when she accused the British monarch of genocide.

Australia was working through similar requests from other Pacific island leaders, he said. Tens of thousands of Pacific islanders are working in Australia under a labour scheme and receive the same benefits as their Australian counterparts,

The censure motion against Ralph Babet has also passed in the Senate. It passed “on the voices”, without a formal vote being called for. As mentioned earlier, opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham called Babet’s tweets “repugnant”,

Sky News host Chris Kenny has reacted to Lidia Thorpe tearing up a censure motion paper after the Senate voted to censure her following the independent senator’s outburst at King Charles and Queen Camilla in parliament.

The Senate has censured two of its own, Lidia Thorpe and Ralph Babet, both of whom were absent when the votes were taken because of problems with their flights to Canberra. Thorpe, a crossbencher who defected from the Greens,