I am sickened the Greens councillor for the Gabba, Trina Massey, has openly supported the burning of the Australian flag on our national day.
Flag burning is wrong on any day.
Burning the Australian flag on our national day is deliberately provocative and openly incites hatred in our community.
Australians have a right to protest, but supporting the burning of the national flag crosses a clear and unacceptable line.
The Australian flag represents the freedoms Australians enjoy and the men and women who died defending our way of life.
Supporting its burning is a disgraceful act that stomps on the graves of those who served and sacrificed under that flag.
It tramples on the shared values that bind Australians together, including mateship, community and camaraderie.
This is the same Greens councillor who was recently found to have engaged in official misconduct after spreading material that fuelled division and antisemitism in our community.
It is also the same Greens councillor who has since refused to apologise to Brisbane’s Jewish community for spewing Hamas-talking points in her ratepayer-funded newsletter.
Supporting the burning of the Australian flag is not protest, it is provocation and contempt for Australia.
Greens councillor, Trina Massey, is following the same dangerous and destructive path set by her predecessor and self-declared anarchist Jonathan Sriranganathan.