General Discussions

[LP]

Moreland is in the Wurundjeri-Woiwurrung traditional owner area and Kingston, Casey, Stonnington and Mornington are in the Bunurong traditional owner area.  Neither of those groups have  their own flags and none of those councils have gifted land to the traditional owners.  In fact, no Aboriginal groups in Victoria have their own flag; they all use the Harold Thomas flag.

It’s pretty clear that the claim that Aboriginal groups were charging local governments a fee for flying their own flags is false.  The claim about “sacred places” gifted to Aboriginal groups is also false.

Who knows what local government councillors get up to.? Their “initiatives” generally reflect their beliefs and are usually developed without the local Aboriginal group’s knowledge or input.

I get that there may be no official involvement from the Indigenous groups, but I'm not surprised as I was referring to what I believe to be dodgy disingenuous behaviour.

I've never heard of or seen any Indigenous Tribal flags before very recent times, when I gather someone pegged that there may be a quid in it for them or their mates!

I'd love for the traditional elders step forward and call out the fakes and the fake claims, because if they don't they are basically sanctioning the behaviour.

As for councils following whatever laws there may be, I drive past council chambers every morning, and every week there is a different weird flag flying even in gale force winds like today. This week flapping around was a Rainbow Pride flag, wedged between the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander flags, and what I thought was an EU flag but when I got to work and checked it was a Non-Binary Pride Flag. So I think the official regulations aren't worth much at all!

FFS, Kingston used to have a bloke who flew the Nazi flag long with many others in his front yard, and the council and authorities did feck all about it for decades. It became well known and a sick novelty to drive past and see what shizen was flying each day!