Australia's national flags - pride, politics and problems

Australia's national flags - First Nations, Commonwealth & Torres Strait Islands. Waving the flag National flags engender emotion. People fight for them, stand to them, fly them. They can cause the following, either knowingly or unknowingly: Positive emotions such as pride and patriotism if representative of the country one belongs to, e.g. at the Olympic Games; Negative emotions, such as on international sporting occasions (e.g. soccer or football) wherein hatred for the other side is engendered); Mixed emotions, if there is reference to a cause one sees as worth fighting, whilst others do not, e.g. Free Tibet!, End the war in Gaza, or opposition if the item is representative of something sinister, dark and definitely what one is opposed to, such as the NAZI flag. The present writer, during his term as the Federal Member for Cunningham in the Australian federal parliament between 2002 - 2004 was supportive of the Free Tibet! cause and not only brou...