Peta Credlin: The Aboriginal flag should not be flown above the Harbour Bridge permanently

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s idea to fly the Aboriginal flag above the Sydney Harbour Bridge permanently might fail to generate the goodwill he wants, writes Peta Credlin.

I’m all in favour of doing the right thing by Indigenous Australians but NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is taking generosity of spirit a step too far if he decides to fly the Aboriginal flag permanently on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

We only have one national flag.

It represents all of us: those whose ancestors were here for tens of thousands of years; and those whose ancestors arrived sometime in the past couple of centuries, or as recently as the last decade.

The Aboriginal flag is just one of quite a few official flags, the state flags and the armed forces flags, for instance, and it doesn’t even represent all of Australia’s Indigenous people.

Torres Strait Islanders have their own flag. So quite apart from giving a flag representing about three per cent of us the same status as the national flag, by flying the two of them permanently alongside each other on our biggest city’s most prominent landmark, it might fail to generate the goodwill the Premier plainly wants.

Indeed it’s divisive.

I’ve no issue with it flying high on prominent Indigenous dates but not every day because it doesn’t represent everybody.

Given the national flag is a Commonwealth issue, Dominic Perrottet has got to rethink this one.

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