{"id":12879,"date":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/mp-wants-national-flag-flown-at-half-mast-on-australia-day\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"mp-wants-national-flag-flown-at-half-mast-on-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/mp-wants-national-flag-flown-at-half-mast-on-australia-day\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Wants National Flag Flown At Half Mast On Australia Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A Victorian politician has called for the Australian flag to be flown at half mast on 26 January, reports the Herald Sun.<\/h3>\n<p>Greens MP Lidia Thorpe has told the paper that Australia Day celebrations are like dancing on the graves of her ancestors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oz-flag-half-mast.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWe can\u2019t celebrate a day that marks a day of invasion, a day of mourning,\u201d she said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThis country needs to own the truth of what\u2019s happened to its first people. We need to own that we were invaded and atrocities occurred.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her comments come as Aussie tennis champ Pat Cash joins the push to move Australia Day from the 26<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI got to the stage I cannot celebrate Australia Day. I\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAs an Australian who brought two Davis Cups home, representing my country, January 26 is not a day of celebration for me. People who really look into it would question that.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThat is not going to be a celebration for me, it\u2019s like an Invasion Day, celebrating white England &#8212; English landing.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Victorian Greens MP Lidia Thorpe has suggested flags be flown at half-mast on Australian Day in remembrance of atrocities committed against Indigenous people. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#9News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FpLvmSnaFJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/FpLvmSnaFJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsAUS\/status\/953011425236213760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Victorian politician has called for the Australian flag to be flown at half mast on 26 January, reports the Herald Sun. Greens MP Lidia Thorpe has told the paper that Australia Day celebrations are like dancing on the graves of her ancestors. \u201cWe can\u2019t celebrate a day that marks a day of invasion, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MP Wants National Flag Flown At Half Mast On Australia Day - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/mp-wants-national-flag-flown-at-half-mast-on-australia-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MP Wants National Flag Flown At Half Mast On Australia Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Victorian politician has called for the Australian flag to be flown at half mast on 26 January, reports the Herald Sun. 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