Adam Bandt slammed as ‘idiotic’ for divisive anti-Aussie flag stunt
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has accused Adam Bandt’s Greens of trying to “run down the country”, after the party leader hid the Australian flag from view.
A racially divisive publicity stunt by Adam Bandt which saw the Greens leader hold a press conference with the Australian flag pushed off to the side of the room with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders flags front and centre has been labelled “idiotic”.
The event occurred Monday afternoon in Sydney shortly before Bandt was to hold a press conference with Deputy Greens leader Mehreen Faruqi at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in the CBD.
Shortly before Bandt and Faruqi appeared a staffer moved the Australian flag to the side.
When asked why the flag was moved from behind the speakers, Mr Bandt said the symbol was “hurtful” to many Aboriginal Australians, a charge that was rejected by Indigenous leader Warren Mundine.
“It’s idiotic,” Mundine said.
“Are the Greens actually in the Australian Federal Parliament? Seriously? Do they actually hate Australians that much,” he asked.
“Aboriginals call themselves Australians all the time.
“The Greens are just a fringe university type group trying to run down the country.”
Dr Bella d’Abrera, Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs said the actions were “completely out of touch with real Australians who are proud of their country, and proud of their history”.
“As an elected member of the Commonwealth parliament, Adam Bandt has shown he is unfit to be a member of parliament when he demonstrates contempt for one of Australia’s most unifying symbols.”
“This is exactly the type of empty virtue signalling we have come to expect from the Greens Party.”
“The Australian flag is a unifying symbol that is a pillar of our history and the Australian way of life,” she said.
Dr d’Abrera pointed to polling by her organisation which in January found that 84 per cent of Australians agreed they were “proud to be Australian”, with only five per cent disagreeing.
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan likewise called the move a “disgrace.”
“If the Greens are not proud of our Commonwealth they should not be using taxpayer funded Commonwealth offices for their press conferences,” he said.
The Greens’ actions come after NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet pledged $25 million to fly an Aboriginal flag permanently from the Harbour Bridge, despite not knowing why it would cost so much to add an extra flagpole to the structure.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s office declined to comment on the Greens leader’s actions, however one Coalition source said that Bandt’s behaviour “spoke for itself”.
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I'm not surprised that someone like Adam Bandt would do something like this. What I am surprised by is Aussies voting a clown like this into parliament.
Thankfully we don't have to blame all Australians for voting in Bandt, just his local electorate of inner city Melbournites. And we all know folks from Melbourne just ain't right in the head.
We live in quite possibly the dumbest era and it's very easy to prove . Of you are feeling a little down and sad for more than a couple of weeks and then go to see a doctor you will be diagnosed as suffering from depression and be given anti depressants and walk out of that doctors office as someone who has a mental health issue .
Yet if you wake up in the morning and decide that you want to identify as a,
Pot plant
Donkey with Tourette's and anal herpes
A Garden gnome
A blind person
A deaf person
A woman
A man
A dog
Then that is perfectly normal and you won't need medication .
Lefty's will whinge about Australia Day in the name of Aboriginals and they will make sure that the Aussie flag is pushed aside and out of view in the name of Aboriginals snd they will protest and march for it . Yet when it comes to the biggest issues facing Aboriginals like health and poverty the very things that affect them where are the lefties ? They remain silent .
If you bring up health and poverty, it is racist.
I mean lefties are pretty blooming vocal on Aboriginal health and poverty. Heck both are in the Greens 10 urgent attention policy document: https://greens.org.au/policies/first-nations-peoples
Also you've got some weird views on gender identity there Frankie... But you do you.
That's the funny thing about the political spectrum, it's a horse shoe shape. Nutters on both the left and the right have more nuttiness in common than the sensible centre, even though they claim to be sworn enemies.
But when have we seen lefties actually March and protest about Aboriginal health and poverty ?
We all know how they marched and protested about Australia Day.
Captain , but what are the Greens answers on the matter ? They don't want to hear about incest , child abuse and alcoholism in remote communities where these real problems are .
They only want to hear about more money and more government jobs for middle class inner city dwelling indigenous. They only want to hear about more funds in the budget to be filtered into indigenous charities that sponsor the likes of Greg Inglis with more millions , they only want to hear about anything other then the indigenous being half the problem for many of the issues they're flagging . When was the last time Bandt was out in the remote communities of the NT for a few weeks at a time to see what doing ? Fucking never.
They whine about Indigenous health issues , howver turn a blind eye to the blatantly obvious fact that they themselves encourage indigenous to reject modern western medicines and lifestyles which will increase your expected lifespan and health. The greens and the left are the Indigenous worst enemies encouraging them to be left behind in so many aspects of life.
You could not be more right on this Wiz (no pun).... I have been saying for years that the "greens" are the most dangerous political party on the planet.
The only good to come out of his press conference is that the "dills" that voted for them are now seeing their true colours.....our ignorant youth think they are a party representing climate change....these ignorant green bastards just represent insurrection and nothing more.
Can you imagine sitting down with them and trying to reason something out?
LOL, very accurate Mr Fong!
^^This.
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