Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne no doubt spoke for many Australians when he rubbished Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe over her right royal protest in Parliament House.

“I was absolutely amazed that she got through the door,” Payne told me after witnessing Thorpe disrupt a reception for King Charles III to call for a treaty for First Australians. “That was uncalled-for and un-Australian.”

But there was no simple way to stop Thorpe making an appearance in the Great........

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