Charles received a standing ovation before Senator Lidia Thorpe emerged in the chamber and told him: "You are not my King" adding that "genocide" had been committed against the Commonwealth country's indigenous people.

Britain’s King Charles III has been heckled by an Aboriginal lawmaker after he arrived in Australia for the first visit to the country by a reigning monarch in more than a decade.

King Charles warned of "overwhelming" climate dangers in an address at Australia's parliament on Monday, saying the growing ferocity of bushfires and floods were an "unmistakable sign" of a sweltering planet.