'Trying to disappear us': Dutton won't use Indigenous flags at press events as PM
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Liberal leader Peter Dutton will not stand beside the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at press conferences if he becomes prime minister. Some Indigenous leaders say it is a level of "pettiness" they never expected.

Summary

Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton stated he would not stand beside Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander flags at press events if elected prime minister, arguing for unity under a single national flag.

Dutton called the use of multiple flags “confusing” and divisive.

Indigenous leaders and critics, including Mick Gooda and Minister Malarndirri McCarthy, condemned the stance as divisive and dismissive of Indigenous cultures, which are represented by official Australian flags.

This follows Dutton’s history of opposing symbolic Indigenous measures, including the Voice to Parliament referendum.

  • Geobloke@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    12 days ago

    He’s got a good chance. All he needs do is say “are you worse now than 3 years ago,” while not providing a better solution than what we lived through

    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
      11·
      12 days ago

      More than a good chance. Albo’s paralysed with the fear of fucking it up, and has the unmistakable stench of a one-term government. Given the media and the oligarchs’ bias, it’d be a miracle if he scrapes through.

      • Geobloke@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        And Elon is going to jump into our election for our regulator trying to bring Twitter into line with Aussie community expectations. Albo has no charisma, of we’ve learnt one thing about Trump is that politicians need to change and stop counting numbers

        • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          The best Australia can hope for is that Musk is too busy trying to make Nigel Farage the UK’s PM or kickstarting a Fourth Reich in Germany or something, and forgets all about this dusty corner of the South Pacific until it’s too late.

    • suigenerix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      Yeah, seems most people have forgotten that inflation was already over 6% for the quarter when Liberal left office in 2022. Labor didn’t cause the problem, they inherited it. And they helped start to bring down inflation within 6 months.

      I’m not saying Albo and Labor are a godsend, but Liberal are a far worse choice. The Libs blew over $50 billion on the NBN screw up and Snowy 2.0. And their nuclear power project is already looking to easily exceed that.

    • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Certainly, we’re going to have Musk and Murdoch pushing for Dutton to get in and our dumbass populace will buy whatever those two media networks are selling as usual.