General Discussions

[DJC]

Yes, it seems so.

But on the fringe there are some real whack jobs and they are chipping around the edges!

A great example are flags.

There was outrage that local councils had to pay to fly the Indigenous flag, then the Feds fixed that problem and the Indigenous flag was flying freely at locations all over the state.              But wait, there's more!                  All of a sudden councils had to fly the "Local Tribe's Indigenous Flag" or else it is disrespectful, apparently not everyone thinks the Indigenous flag is their flag, did you even know Local Indigenous Tribes had a flag, and if so when did they come into existence? :o

You guessed it, there is a fee for flying the Local Tribe's Indigenous Flag, who would have thunk it! :

There are whack jobs chipping away at the finges of every community, group, club, organisation, religion, etc.  Why should Indigenous communities be any different?

The local flags issue is not an issue.  Only the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags are officially recognised. While club pennants may be flown with National, State and the two Indigenous flags, you can't just invent a flag and have it flown on public buildings.  I have never heard of any local council being asked to fly a "local Aboriginal community flag" and they wouldn't be permitted to do so if they were.