Whether “flag-gate” was a deliberate stunt, or not, it was all a bit undergraduate: deliberately divisive and the sort of dogma you’d expect to hear at a student council meeting | EDITORIAL
After snaring three new lower house seats at the federal election, and seizing the balance of power in the Senate, the Australian Greens find themselves wielding more power and influence than ever before.
However, a month after the poll, few people seem to be talking about the Greens and the environment in the same breath. Instead, internal ructions within the party are getting far more attention.refused to stand in front of the national flag at a press conference on Monday Whether “flag-gate” was a deliberate stunt, as some claimed, or a long-standing practice that had hitherto gone unnoticed, was immaterial. What mattered was that the episode made headlines for the Greens around the country for all the wrong reasons, helped in no small measure by Bandt’s defence that “for many Australians, this flag represents dispossession and the lingering pains of colonisation”.
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