Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he has told Adam Bandt to “reconsider” his position after the leader of the left-leaning Greens refused to stand in front of the Australian flag at his press conference.
Prior to Bandt’s press conference in Sydney on Monday, a Greens staffer sidelined the Australian flag but left the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders flags in the front and centre.
Bandt later explained that for some Australians, the Australian flag “represents dispossession and the lingering pains of colonisation,” adding that he usually had it removed in his media conference.
“Through treaty with First Nations peoples and by moving into a republic, we can have a flag that represents all of us,” he said….