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Sky News AU
2 days ago
- Sky News AU
New poll shows more than 70 per cent of public support Australian flag as Mornington Peninsula council responds to backlash
The Australian flag is viewed as a symbol of unity by an overwhelming majority of the public, despite local council bureaucrats erasing it from flyers. Mornington Peninsula Shire Council was sent into damage control this week after it emerged that council materials were being put out with the Aboriginal flag, Torres Strait Islander flag and the woke 'progress pride' flag – but not the Australian flag. The council flyers are wildly out of step with community attitudes, with a new poll released on Thursday showing that just 10 per cent of people want to get rid of the Australian flag. The survey of 1000 people, commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs and carried out by Dynata – an independent marketing research firm – found that 71 per cent of Australians believe our national flag helped unite all Australians. While Australia currently has three officially recognised national flags, the IPA poll found that 61 per cent of Australians believe we should have just one flag – the Australian flag – while 29 per cent of respondents support the Australian flag being displayed alongside the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag. Institute of Public Affairs Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild said the Australian flag was the nation's 'most inclusive flag'. 'The Australian flag is our most inclusive flag as it represents our entire nation and every Australian, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, or gender,' Mr Wild said. 'The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags have an important place in our society, but Australia has only one national flag. The Mornington Peninsula Council materials that had the Australian Flag removed include a flyer encouraging parents to sign their kids up to Kindergarten, a Child and Family news flyer, and a Health and Development Assessment flyer. According to the Herald Sun, at least one council office in Mornington also displays only the three minority flags on its entry doors. The Mayor of Mornington Peninsula and the council's chief executive have both denied knowing about the flyers before they appeared in the news. And on Tuesday evening Councillors voted to amend the council's flag policy to ensure the incident was not repeated. Mayor Anthony Marsh has told that "going forward" the council will ensure the Australian flag is included on all publications and materials it puts out. According to Mr Wild, the public backlash against the council reflects the fact Australians have 'had a gutful' of divisive identity politics. 'At a time when social cohesion is disintegrating across the nation, mainstream Australians understand that our symbols are unifying, and should be cherished and celebrated at all times. After all, there is far more that unites Australians than divides us,' he said.
West Australian
2 days ago
- West Australian
Opening of Charles Bean Research Centre aims to help Australians understand experiences of family who served
Matt Keogh's eyes lit up as an Australian War Memorial curator traced his great uncle's final days on a map of the El Alamein battleground. The minister had come to open the memorial's new Charles Bean Research Centre – part of its $550 million redevelopment – and ended up having the experience of thousands of Australians who seek a greater understanding of their family's service. 'I knew that he had fought and died in El Alamein, but to go through the unit diary to understand what they were involved in, in terms of battles … how he'd been involved in stopping Rommel's advance, the units that they were attacking, and how they were defending, and the machine gun fire that was peppering them at night,' Mr Keogh said of curator Stuart Bennington's detective work into his relative George Geoffrey Keogh. 'That's all a great example of the colour and movement, the reality of war that is not immediately apparent just on the service record … and I'll certainly take that back to my family, to my dad, and to be able to give that greater explanation of what happened for my great uncle.' The research centre's opening is a key milestone in the War Memorial's nine-year development project. Director Matt Anderson expects the new, standalone research centre to draw more people to have the same 'remarkable and intensely personal experience' of seeing their family's records. 'This is the place you can actually come to understand,' he told The West in the new research centre. 'It's the place that contains the battalion diaries, it contains the ship's logs, but most importantly, it contains the letters home, the diaries … the real thoughts of our soldiers, our sailors and our aviators, the things that they said to their families that they never told their commanding officers.' More than 3500 people sought this experience over the past three years even while the memorial's research section was housed in a demountable in the middle of the construction site. Mr Anderson said the centre's opening helped fulfil the three-prong vision of founder Charles Bean for the institution to be a memorial, museum and archive that would educate people about the realities of war. The official war correspondent's granddaughter Anne Carroll said Bean would never have expected to see his name on a building, being more concerned for helping others tell their stories. As to the question of fully realising his vision for the War Memorial, 'I would say that as long as it fulfils its function of encouraging people to learn, to learn and discuss and encourage learning, yes (it does),' she said. 'The function of the building and the building (itself) is so welcoming that I think people will come and participate in what he encouraged.'
SBS Australia
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- SBS Australia
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