In 1995 the aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait islander flag was recognized as official Australian flags.
However, they are not representative of Australia as a whole, they represent races and specific places.
The Torres Strait flag represents the tiny islands between North Queensland and Papua new Guinea, plus that specific culture.
The aboriginal flag represents a race, but not necessarily a culture, unless it’s the modern revisionist form. Aboriginals before settlement were all very different and had many different languages and beliefs.
The Australian flag represents the Torres Straits, the aboriginals, the British pioneers and the entirety of Australia, it’s overseas territories, and all its citizens.
There is zero point to having the other two flags officially recognised when they are already incorporated into the existing flag as the existing flag encompasses everything.
So why add the other two then?
Division.
It’s simple. Divide and conquer.
Present the three different flags, highlighting the separations visually, and watch the citizens bicker and fight.
It distracts the people from the actions of the establishment.
It is completely hypocritical to say that we’re all equal and race doesn’t matter etc but then have different laws and customs for some and not others.
These different flags highlight and promote these differences. Encouraging further division.
Case in point; the greens leader removing the Australian flag and only being seen with the aboriginal and Torres straits ones.
Division in visual form.
The flags being used as a tool to pry the people apart.
Who benefits? The establishment.
That way everyone is arguing amongst themselves and dividing themselves up into groups whilst being cognitively dissonant to what they’re doing.
Symbolism is important and it’s influence is larger than it seems. Most can’t see it, or even care, but their subconscious does.
We should only have one official flag. The Australian flag, to represent all lands and all citizens within the nation and abroad.
Alex James.