Re: Election 2022 (Poll added)
Reply #279 –
You would have thought if it means and costs little or next to nothing while taking no effort at all Scotty from Marketing would have been onto it faster then a seagull on a chip, this concept of easy lip service was basically Scomo's ethos. Yet he wasn't and he didn't!
So in that regard I think it's pretty easy, almost too easy, to dismiss these little things as trivial!
Sorry mate, you have to understand something.
Whether those flags existed next to the podium or not makes no difference.
Sure, semiotic and symbolic change, but to laud the incumbent for executing a change, when there are Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island flags on every government building around the country is absolutely not making any real difference aside from optics.
Let me tell you what this actually becomes about. One upmanship. The next leader from any party, can then wear a flag on the label of their clothing when in public.
Its like when they support the minority groups national days. Its all vote winning optics and celebrating what our great country is about...