ABC journalist Isobel Roe said prior to Mr Bandt’s arrival at a press conference on Monday, a Greens staffer put the Australian flag to the side of the room, leaving just the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags. Adam Bandt has refused to stand in front of the Australian flag, saying the country has “work to do” on racism. Picture: Twitter/isobelroe“He says the country has work to do on racism, and that the symbol is hurtful to many Indigenous Australians,” she wrote on Twitter.
“We must always recognise and acknowledge the past but the way we move forward as a nation is to walk together.” Mr Thompson continued, reflecting on his time in Afghanistan serving under the flag – saying he takes Mr Bandt’s move as a “personal insult”. “On the defence side, I fought under the Australian flag, I was wounded in Afghanistan under the flag,” he said.Ahead of a press conference with Greens leader Adam Bandt, a Greens staffer has just moved the Australian flag out of the TV camera shot.
margmopp He’s a little kunt!
If the greens ever hope to improve their image and be taken seriously,they need to start by getting rid of grubs like Bandt. Who obviously belongs on some other planet. He’s right out of his atmosphere here.
'Those who served'? Torres Strait had the highest enlistment rate of any place in aus during ww2..... those two flags are australian flags
Apparently Pliberseck has to apologise for the Voldemort comment, but a LiberalAus can use this language freely and good ole newscorpse let them get away with it. No double standards, bias or Lib boosting going on. No, not ever.
Bandt..nothing but a pce of 💩💩💩💩
A Liberal MP would be 100% AdamBandt is all that & more.
Greens are flogs, desperate for relevance.
MarthaThomas20 He doesn't care.
Watched the interview... had a feeling the MP was saying what was appropriate for TV as opposed to what he really thought...
If the flag offends you then fuck off somewhere else ( I’m a Pom and totally respect this country’s flag)
Typical of Brandt who is feeling increasingly irrelevant
Removing a national flag is so shameful!
Ironically the more these guys fetishise the Australian flag the more American they become
He doesn't like the Union Jack because it is a symbol of colonialism. Colonialism was brutal so why are we celebrating it. That's a fair point. We're not British. We're Australians.
Just get rid of the Union Jack and keep the southern stars. We're Australians not British.
It's insulting to everyone, just as Brant is.
Bandt has shown himself willing to trade off his allegiance to one of the most equitable, least racist countries in the world, in order to ingratiate himself with the victim-obsessed minority. Calling him a weasel is an insult to weasels.
Well said! Should never enter the parliament with such views. U either are elected for all Australians or none !
Greens are the worse … disgrace to Australia .. people who voted for them should be shameful.. PM said the right words ..
Yes, Bandt is a perfect example of a human parrasite, what this little traitorous know body is doing in Parliament is scandalous. Where is the Prime Minister, not suspending him from Parliament and all the Parliamentarians calling for a vote of no confidence in him? Who is loyal?
Shouldnt the Liberals be working out why they only got 57 seats ?
Bandt is your typical weasel you’d drop kick
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Grand dad needs to take his medication. Calm down sir.
he is just that
Won’t be long Albo will copy.
The only pack of national disgrace weasels are the LNP, through the their foreign policy with France and letting China in on Pacific neighbours and leasing our ports and land to China as well.
Please put little Adam in a room with Jacquie Lambie just for an hour🙈👍
Adam Bandt.........
Nothing Short of a Treasonous and Disgraceful Act
Adam Brants at Murdoch University was a member of the Left Alliance (Australian organisation of Socialists) and during university, he stated he was inspired by the works and thoughts of Leon Trotsky. It's starting to make sense now........Leon Trotsky? Really
It’s a flag. Get over it. Reading the news is like hearing school girls fight
MurdochGutterMedia jumping to disgrace those representing the interests of the majority as fast as they can! When can we boot these shameful numpties out of the country
Liberals love to link the flag, such that it is, with serving for the country via the military. There is no link.
He is the biggest DH in the land!
The liberal Nietnam vet is unwise 2 comment on what Greens do, U need 2 come clean before the new Fed Gov't ICAC about what Ur LNP corrupt, perverse, crooked did 4 the last 10 yrs of neglect, incompetence & injury that U have done 2 our First Nations people, repent, repay! BC&BPS
I wonder what our soldiers would say about this. Their mates dying and fighting for liberty. They fought under the Australian flag not some flag that belong to Australian communities. Also we don't owe anything to these people. I'm proud to be Australian and our flag
Adam Bandt the 'little weasel' and a “national disgrace” I would find it difficult to describe this little man any better. Phillip Thomson, you are a champ. When you are right, you are right.
And he is 100% correct....however it is not fair on weasels.
Aboriginal people fought and died overseas for this country under the Australian flag long before the other one was even designed.
More lnpdrones crying their eyes out over a made up grievance.
Bandt...a dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to hi heaven!
He shouldn't hold up that mirror all time
Great description Weasel, I think we should make him leader of the Weasel Party instead of Greens
The fact people find not standing next to a flag worse than the Liberals torturing children should tell one everything they need to know about the Liberal Party and its supporters.
I call it treason!
Sky news has run out of News
Maybe the Australian Defence Force should stop serving a flag
Confected outrage. Thank God there aren’t any real issues out there to be concerned about.
He needs to be held accountable and made aware of the responsibilities he has agreed to…
Should be dismissed what a disgrace we unity not the oversea BS 😡pissed off
A perfect description of the oxygen thief!
What BS dribble promoted by a fake NEWS station trying to invoke fake nationalism. Why are flags needed for press conferences? The outrage over it is judgmental virtue-signalling.
martinjzammit 'Little weasel' perfectly apt!
Well said, Bandt should be dismissed from office by the Governor General for his treachery.
Who is Phillip Thompson .
TheFacelessSpin And again Mark Knight reads the mood of the nation in today’s theheraldsun reguarding AdamBandt I’m surprised that nobody is not asking to have him tried for Treason. auspol adambandt
What has Phil done for the ADF as a politician? What has Phil done for Australia as a politician? What has Phil done for Townsville?
I'd suggest he's an attention seeking little Weasel, with great respect to Weasels.
To me flying 3 flags shows a united county and warns any aggressive country be careful. But this Chicken dick Bandt has just divided us all. He’s taken us back 20 years.
little weasel 😁
Little weasel 🔥🔥🔥🔥 is a nice way to describe adam
Quite simply a traitor to the people of Australia
Yes
Because performative flag-worship isn't virtue-signalling in any way 🙄
A liberal mp. Yeah whatever. They're pretty irrelevant these days.
Who is virtue signalling here? The flag waver or the person who acted on and transparently explained their long held convictions ?
Insulting to those who served but don’t worry about the entire First Nations people who see that flag as a reminder of their massacre. Grow up Australia! It’s time to make a 21st century decision on our flag. Who do we want to be?
Wish I had a dollar for each time I read 'virtue signalling' lately!
Geez. Imagine if he’d called in the steam cleaners after an alleged rape in parliament. You guys would go nuts.
AdamBandt is a serious piece of shit. The Greens use to be about the environment but now attempt to be a voice piece for any minority group and advocates for all the virtue signalling bullshit happening in this country - he will and is destroying this country
Aboriginal Flag Just another wedge to widen the gap of Us & Them Greens leader Bandt proves it
Hey AdamBandt - looks amazing doesn’t it. Now show it respect or QUIT & take SenatorWong with you!!
Couldn’t have said it better myself
So AdamBandt doesn't have the freedom to be honest to his beliefs? This has really smoked out Type A conservative racists. The Type B are doing a great job of hiding that they are ripping of their sheep.
The Murdoch playbook: Fuel Type A conservatives with the hate & division they love - Rip them off - Repeat. He cares not who he hurts. Australians must be better than that.
How did he become a multi millionare 🤔 ?Paid off by?
That lunatic leader is now the most powerful politician in Australia when you look at the senate results
He was a virtue signaling weasel before he removed the flag, this just made it obvious to more people.
But hey this is ok is it?
rodent
Surely Jacqui Lambie isn't going to throw her support behind this mongrel Bandt as she's ex-ADF yeah🤬🖕
Any chance to flip the script on a valid argument. Australian alt-right always waiting to jump in to character assassinate opponents or put words in their mouths.
Yet LNP members get a free ride
Look at the fluffy confected outrage and virtue signalling from the psuedo nationalist fops.. Oh... Wah... My grandfather fought and died in 3 world wars under that flag... Wah wah.. FFS .. it is a piece of fucking cloth. No one cried when Dutton move the two indigenous flags
Would adambandt prefer a German flag from the 1940s given his surname ?
Newscorpse is our national shame
A communist sympathiser hiding in a pig’s body.
Philip Thompson MP has been a long time hero of mine. This just cements position as a Legend 💪🏾🇦🇺💙👊🏾 ThankyouForYourService
Considering a recent PM wore an Australian flag as a face mask, I don't really see an issue. But I might have miss P Thompson calling that out at the time.
Adams a Mardi Gra rainbow flag man.
Why are we giving this Fleabag any air time. He is a Communist sympathiser
He is a peanut
didnt the greens type people abuse the 20 year old Vietnam conscripts when they came home
It is a rather petulant action by Bandt. It simply gives people more ammunition to attack him. I'm beginning to get the impression he is not all that savvy when it comes to politics.
Well said Bandt should be fired.
If Adam Bandt is afraid to stand in front of the National flag of the nation whose Taxpayers fund his 'wages'; then the nation SHOULD NOT pay him!!!!
I'm not sure what the flag has to do with him getting injured in Afghanistan has to do with anything We were there following Uncle Sam yet again He wasn't fighting for his country and most Australians didn't want him there in the first place
A piece of rag with the flag of another country in the corner Time to get a life
TruthdriverOn In rhyming slang parlance he’s what’s known as a “Torpedo Punt”.
What a bunch of crap , he is entitled to remove any flag he wants to
He is a political activist with a commo agenda. A constuitional crime punishable by law to deny our National flag as he did.
This guy had a little flag lapel pin on his jacket the whole time he was PM and he still forgot who he was representing.
Wait til he finds out about the PM we had who ran away to Hawaii when Australia was on fire!!
TruthdriverOn That’s an insult to weasels
Bandt should be kicked out of parliament
Phillip Thompson just gained a fan.
AdamBandt is certainly a weasel
Virtue signalling. Fark me. Why don't you pivot and become a news channel instead of the stream of faux outrage. FFS
Fiona06732795 Fact check: True.
Can we just put all the flags away. 'Last refuge of the scoundrel' and all.
Say no to Albanese greens Labor UN flag Say no to those who burn Australia's flag
Mr Bandt is what happens with cultish propaganda that the sky is falling in and a portion of well meaning middle class house wife’s and metro husbands thinking they can save the planet one windmill at a time. Without paying attention to the people they are actually voting for.
Very poor form AdamBandt and I once voted for you when you were my local member.
Don’t insult weasels…..
The right have overused snowflake and woke so are really getting into Virtue signalling again.need to bolster their repositories sorry I meant repertoire. My mistake
Haha cry more you sook
Insulting to someone like this guy?
pauliewalnut Who pays the extra court & legal costs associated with the Higgins case delay? Logie Winner Wilkinson - stupid big mouth! FromeneKa mattjcan RealMarkLatham vanOnselenP David_Speers Channel10AU
Sounds good
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bandtisaskidmark
As only 75% of the Australian flag is actually Australian, technically he also removed the flag of a foreign power. I'm good with that.
It’s clear now that if you vote for the greens it’s a vote against our great country. AdamBandt and his weasels don’t want to fight for Australia they want to tear down the very foundations. A vote for greens is traitorous.
Love the 'little weasel'.
Buy that man a beer 🍻
😂 ..🦃
Thompson is being polite. Adam Bandt and his voters are a stain on this country
calm down
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