Our Victorian state MP, Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell has moved the following motion in parliament –\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That this House \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(1) notes that \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(a) the Australian national flag and the Victorian state flag are enduring symbols of the nation, representing Australian and Victorian history, values and unity;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(b) the deliberate desecration of the Australian and Victorian flags are not harmless acts of protest but a threatening act of aggression, a symbolic call to violence against Australia, its institutions and its people;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(c) 77 per cent of Australians polled by the Institute of Public Affairs believe that burning the Australian national flag should be against the law;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(d) 63 per cent of Australians polled by the Institute of Public Affairs believe that those who burn the Australian national flag should face jail time;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(e) 71 per cent of Australians polled by the Institute of Public Affairs believe that non-citizens who burn the Australian national flag should be deported; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(2) calls on the Allan Labor Government to enact legislation to criminalise the desecration of the Australian national and Victorian state flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our Victorian state MP, Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell has moved the following motion in parliament –\u00a0 That this House \u2014 (1) notes that \u2014 (a) the Australian national flag and the Victorian state flag are enduring symbols of the nation, representing Australian and Victorian history, values and unity; (b) the deliberate desecration of the Australian and Victorian … Continue reading “One Nation\u2019s Rikkie Lee Tyrrell: Burning the Aussie Flag Should Be a Crime”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35444,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions\/35444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}