Queensland Senator Paul Scarr has criticised left-wing Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown’s decision not to display the Australian flag in her office and implored her to engage with local Vietnamese migrants who fled communism to make a new life in Australia.
The Liberal Party senator’s address to Parliament brought attention to the Public Exhibition on Crimes of Communism in the western suburb of Darra in Brisbane where a large Vietnamese community resides.
The exhibit, organised by the Vietnamese Community in Australia and the World Victims of Communism Association of Australia, highlighted the consequences of communism including mass deportations from Estonia to Soviet gulags (labour camps), the killing fields of Cambodia, the millions killed during the Chinese Communist Party’s Great Leap Forward, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956….