Flying Flag banned (3 Viewers)

[rantman]

why arent ethnic ppl and refugees allowed to fly their homeland flags?
i think they r still aussie if they still love their old country
is this just politically correctness or trying to protect australia from becoming owned by other nationalities?

 

[Comrade nathan]

why arent ethnic ppl and refugees allowed to fly their homeland flags?
i think they r still aussie if they still love their old country
is this just politically correctness or trying to protect australia from becoming owned by other nationalities?

I think they are allowed to/

 

[Rafy]

Yes you are allowed to fly any flag.

 

[Raiks]

why arent ethnic ppl and refugees allowed to fly their homeland flags?
i think they r still aussie if they still love their old country
is this just politically correctness or trying to protect australia from becoming owned by other nationalities?

You are allowed to fly any flag. In my street alone, we have the Welsh, Italian, Canadian and South African flags flying alongside the Australian flag on their masts.

 

[Comrade nathan]

Where did you get the idea that people can't fly any flag they want?

 

[rantman]

i read in the newspaper somewhere that some taiwan ppl wanted to fly the taiwanese flag in a public shopping space but the chinese government complained about it to the australian government and it was banned by the local council

 

[withoutaface]

The difference is that that's public property, I'd assumed it wasn't owned by the Taiwanese people and so they had no right to put anything there.

 

[rantman]

no it was a festival in cabra, and they hung their flag on the stage

 

[Generator]

They had a 'right' to fly the flag there in their own way (e.g., on a person, on a car, etc.), it's just that given that it was 'public' property it couldn't be displayed on a permanent basis (that's what I would assume, anyway).

Edit: As a temporary item within a cultural festival... No idea. Maybe because it isn't recognised as an 'official' flag and due to political pressure from above and beyond (as you said)?

 

[Raiks]

It was probably just a bit of backroom negotiation to stop a shit fight occurring... which seems to happen a lot when it comes to national and cultural celebrations.

 

[ujuphleg]

It was probably just a bit of backroom negotiation to stop a shit fight occurring... which seems to happen a lot when it comes to national and cultural celebrations.

Or with Taiwan and China full stop.

 

[sped_kid01]

i remember when Cathy Freeman won a medal @ the 2000 olympics or maybe it was 96? she got in trouble for flying the aboriginal flag around after her race?

 

[Raiks]

Or with Taiwan and China full stop.

Yeah, because Taiwan and China are like school kids trying to share the lollybag.

 

[Lorie]

i remember when Cathy Freeman won a medal @ the 2000 olympics or maybe it was 96? she got in trouble for flying the aboriginal flag around after her race?

yeah it was at the commonwealth games at Canada in 1994. She got in trouble for carrying both the Australian and aboriginal flag.

 

[= Jennifer =]

yeah it was at the commonwealth games at Canada in 1994. She got in trouble for carrying both the Australian and aboriginal flag.

i did not know that she got in trouble for that...what was the basis of the argument?

 

[neo o]

i did not know that she got in trouble for that...what was the basis of the argument?

Because there is no such thing as the Aboriginal nation?

 

[miaomiao]

i did not know that she got in trouble for that...what was the basis of the argument?

Probably just some fascist cunt having a whinge because they like to pretend Aboriginies never owned this place.

 

[rantman]

abos deserve to fly flag alongside australian flag in public on aussie day 26th jan, cause they own this land and they should be spared another national day of mourning

 

[transcendent]

Same thing happened when the vietnamese in Cabramatta tried to fly the South Vietnamese flag because they still bare a grudge for Communist Vietnam.

I dunno about flying the Australian flag in USA. If it'd piss them off I'm all for it

 

[Xayma]

Because there is no such thing as the Aboriginal nation?

Depends on your definition of nation, which can differ from the definition of country.

But the point would more be, that there was no Aboriginal team competing with that flag in the games.

Taiwan, although argued about being a country, participates in many international games under Chinese Taipei.