Elder loses bid to appeal ruling on genocide against King Charles
The case alleges that the king, along with the Australian government and its institutions, is perpetuating genocide by maintaining systems that disadvantage Indigenous people across numerous socio-economic measures.
A Krautatungalung elder, Robbie Thorpe, has been denied a chance to bring a landmark case against King Charles III for alleged genocide against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The court ruled that Thorpe's bid to prosecute the monarch for perpetuating genocide was unsuccessful because it did not reference any proper source of law.
Thorpe, who has faced three legal defeats in his pursuit against the monarch, is now considering taking his allegations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands. He believes the ICC, which does not recognize head-of-state immunity, would be more willing to hear his case than Australian courts. Thorpe says Australia is in denial and that if it wasn't for acts of terror and policies of genocide, Australia wouldn't exist.
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