On National Flag Day, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price stood proudly with the Australian flag draped across her shoulders. For that simple, patriotic act, she was ordered by the Senate to remove it. The Greens, predictably, led the charge to silence her.
What makes this even more offensive is that the so-called pride flag has been displayed in the Parliament without any ban. That flag, which pushes harmful gender-fluid messages onto our children, is apparently welcome. But our national flag – the flag under which Australians of every background have fought, worked, and built this great nation – is treated as a “prop” to be banned.
Family First shares Senator Price’s outrage. The Australian flag belongs to all of us. Unlike some other flags political activists like to promote, it is not a divisive symbol based on identity politics. It is the uniting emblem of our democracy, our sacrifices, and our shared future. It is our true pride flag.
Senator Price is also right to call for laws making it a criminal offence to burn or desecrate the flag. Like millions of Australians, Family First was disgusted to see radicals torching our national emblem on the streets of Melbourne. Burning the Australian flag is not “free speech” – it is an attack on the very freedoms the flag represents.
Meanwhile, the Greens continue to prove themselves hostile to the nation they are elected to serve. Their contempt for the flag, for our history, and for the people they claim to represent shows just how deeply anti-Australian they have become.
Family First applauds Senator Price for her courage. Alongside her and others who still value our heritage, we call for the Prime Minister and his government to stand firmly behind one flag – the Australian flag – not three, not four, not endless banners of identity politics.
The flag is not a symbol of division but of unity. It represents all Australians – Indigenous and non-Indigenous, old and new, young and old. It reminds us of our responsibilities to family, to community, and to country.
It is time to take pride again in our national symbol. It is time to protect it from desecration. And it is time to say clearly: the Australian flag unites us all.