King Charles visited Australia's capital Canberra on Monday, where he was sneezed on by a suit-wearing alpaca, heckled by an Indigenous senator, and applauded for a speech on the country's climate perils.

Among the thousand plus well-wishers gathered to greet King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Monday was Hephner, a nine-year old alpaca in a suit with a crown perched atop his fluffy white head.

King Charles III is ending the first visit to Australia by a reigning British monarch in 13 years with anti-monarchists hoping his journey is a step toward an Australian citizen becoming head of state

King Charles and Queen Camilla flew to Australia's capital Canberra on Monday where crowds gathered for their first visit to the city in almost a decade. Charles' 16th official visit to Australia, where he attended school for six months as a teenager in 1966,

Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe was removed from an event at Australia’s parliament after accusing the British royal family of “genocide” and stealing land.

The duration of this visit has been shorter and the engagements have been arranged to avoid early starts and late finishes. Even with the alterations, it has still been a busy schedule for the King and Queen.

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.