Our national flag was in the news again this week after Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was ordered to remove an Australian flag she had draped over her shoulders while she spoke in the Senate.

Senator Nampijinpa Price was speaking on a bill that would make burning the flag a criminal offense.

She told the Senate:

“Our national flag reminds us of the duty of responsible citizenship, doing something that’s bigger than ourselves,

“For example, raising a family, contributing to one’s community, working hard in a chosen field, or serving the nation in some ­capacity.

When one understands the history behind our national flag, when one values its symbolic weight, it’s beyond comprehension that the burning of our ­national flag is not a criminal ­offence.”

All very well said.

But then Greens Senator Nick McKim, extreme activist and owner of four properties, stood up to interrupt Nampijinpa Price saying she was “wearing a prop” which is against the Senate rules.

A “prop”? That’s the Australian National Flag he’s talking about.

Now you know and I know and Senator Nampijinpa Price knows that McKim just hates our flag.

He hates what it represents.

He hates that you and I and millions of other Australians are proud of it.

Want proof?

It was right there in what he said when he objected.

He said that if Senator Price was allowed to wear the Australian flag, he was going to wear a Palestinian flag.

What?

How is wearing the flag of a foreign entity the same as an Australian Senator wearing an Australian flag in the Australian Senate.

As Senator Michaelia Cash also pointed out during the incident, the Aussie flag is already hanging in the Senate chamber!

But McKim doesn’t believe the flag means anything. That’s why he’s happy to put up the Indigenous flags, the Pride flag, and the Palestinian flag up.

The fact he even thought up this scenario immediately shows his instinct is to hate the flag and hate our country, and prefer a foreign group instead.

Which makes you wonder: what is he even doing in the Senate?

Don’t Tasmanians deserve a Senator who represents them and their interests rather than those of a people over the other side of the world?

They’re getting duped by McKim and it needs to be called out.

Australia has one flag and if Senator McKim would rather stand under the flag of a foreign entity, he should get out of the Senate now.

^{Image source: SBSNews, Nauru has denied Greens senator Nick McKim's visa application to visit the island next week. (AAP).}