Greens inciting flag-burners should be booted

JANUARY 19, 2017: Members of the Greens who want to disrupt Australia Day celebrations and encourage people to “steal and burn aus rags” – an obvious reference to the Australian flag – should be expelled from their party. The far left faction of the NSW Greens are actively promoting disruption of our national day of celebration and I call on Greens leader Richard di Natalie to show some spine and expel party members who are encouraging theft and acts of desecration of our national flag.The Greens Left Renewal arm are sharing ideas for “7 days of Resistance” in the lead-up to Australia Day via their Facebook page, and the suggestions promoted include “interrupting aus day celebrations, paint images words/wording on walls and roads” and “steal and burn aus rags”.To think that elected representatives would promote not only highly offensive, but downright illegal acts is a disgrace.I feel so strongly about this that I put up a bill to criminalise burning the Australian flag after Australia Day last year.That bill will need to be reintroduced as we now have a new Parliament.The need for such a bill is being demonstrated yet again as the vast majority of Australians get ready to enjoy a day of celebrating this great country of ours, and we have this pack of ratbags wanting to grandstand and denigrate what we stand for.Those elected to show leadership and make important decisions about our country are the last people in the community who should be inciting such action and I call on Di Natalie to do something about it.