Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has shrugged off calls from conservative opponents to resign from parliament after interrupting a reception for King Charles. Meanwhile, the royal couple were greeted by thousands of wellwishers at events across Sydney on Tuesday.

Britain's King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia's urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra.

Crews worked overnight to investigate the fault and expect to restore power throughout the Far West region on Tuesday evening, the NSW government said. 06:27Daisy Dumas School children, adults in faux crowns and a cat on a leash: thousands of royal fans are in place to meet the King and Queen at the Sydney Opera House.

King Charles III flipped sausages and admired Australian avocados on Tuesday on the final leg of his tour Down Under, a whirlwind jaunt designed to shore up support in one

King Charles and Queen Camilla cap a six-day visit to Australia with a community barbecue and a military jamboree aside Sydney's iconic Opera House Tuesday.