An Aboriginal smoking ceremony will welcome King Charles III to Australia's capital Canberra on Monday, where the monarch will spotlight past war efforts and a new fight against climate change.Bearing a swag of new military honours bestowed over the weekend,

The king’s visit, his first to an overseas realm as sovereign, comes amid revived debate over whether Australia should cut ties with the royal family and become a republic instead.

King Charles was confronted by the monarch's rich and at times controversial past at the start of his royal tour of both Australia and Samoa. On Sunday, Oct. 20, King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla attended religious services at St.