During an appearance on Seven’s Sunrise, Dutton was asked whether his stance on displaying the Aboriginal flag at press conferences also applied to flying it on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

“I am just the body, I am just the mechanism.’’ Senator Thorpe called on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to “put the flag in’’ to assert sovereignty over Australian land.

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Flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags alongside the Australian flag is “dividing our country unnecessarily”, Peter Dutton has declared, vowing a major change. Peter Dutton has taken ...

Surprised by the speed of construction around him and feeling homesick, he decided to spray-paint an Aboriginal flag on a small temporary brick wall. “It wasn’t an artwork in the first place ...