Welcome to Australia.
Thanks to the insight of Pauline Hanson,who was the first public figure to wear the Australian Flag over the shoulder.
It is now standard fashion for all red blooded Aussies to wear on days out.
Pauline the first lady of Australian fashion and politics was instrimental in arousing the proud Australian.

PROCK< Hanson wore the flag over shoulder at the behest of a photo journalist. She did not do it of her own volition.

I believe many people were already proud to be Australian before she did this. Why would need the inarticulate Hanson to tell us to be proud?

Please explain?

Well again we have the selective logic of Spendocrat and cj morgan who do not want to acknowlege the real reason for the attempted banning of the National flag at the Big Day Out concert.It is for fear of the potential violent nature of some Middle Eastern Muslims who consider themselves to be apart and above our laws and values.

It is the same old story of submission.Get rid of Christian religious symbols at Christmas,don't have pork at McDonalds,no religious crosses, at our public schools, get products we all use labeled Halal,no national flags at selected venues on Australia Day,but Muslims have their own special prayer rooms paid for by the tax payer,are allowed to wear their religious dress at schools and try to impose their modes of conduct and beliefs on the rest of us.No other religion or belief system has these special these special privledges or power.

Spendocrat,you are almost as sly as that old snake Hilaly.Let's call a spade a shovel.

The Aussie flag will increasingly become a symbol of freedom and nationalism.

What threats are there to our society which might be driving such an attitude ?

Here is one from Sydney.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sickening-gang-videos-removed/2007/01/24/1169518746379.html

Australia is "Under new (lebanese Muslim) management" ?

Here is another one (from England)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/09/25/do2502.xml

[When Abu Izzadeen, the firebrand Islamist militant, berated John Reid last week for "daring" to visit a Muslim area, the Home Secretary bridled, as did many others, at his suggestion that part of London was off limits for a British minister of the Crown. ]

I'll be honest, I think Blair should have taken this Izzadeen character out and had him executed for sedition. Why executed ? His call was seditious, serious and the likelihood of rehabilitation is zero.

If this is what radicals (true Muslims) will say when they are weak, imagine what they will say and do when they are strong ?

How will they be when the 40,000 person mosque is built ? Will the moderates or the radicals drive the agenda ? given that the clear inclination of the radicals (true Muslims) is to intimidate in the name of Allah those who oppose them. Why ? Simple:- Hadith bukhari volume 4, book 53, number 386 shows clearly and unambiguously, that the verse 'fight them till they worship Allah alone' (9.29) is interpreted by Mohammed and his followers in aggresive/offensive terms.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/053.sbt.html#004.053.386
a) Fight "them". (thats you and me )
b) Until....they worship Allah alone.

The only defense Australia will have to such insidious white anting of our social fabric is a healthy nationalism......the Flag and all it symbolizes.

But wait...there's more. FLAG.....

http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,,21105996-5001021,00.html

[The video Wogs All Ova Sydney features a disturbing rap song by an unknown artist talking about 'Leb soldiers taking over'.

The lyrics go on to say 'When I see an Aussie flag I spit', and warn Australians to 'keep outta Bankstown' as images of young thugs armed with baseball bats and guns overlay the music.]

The image in that story though, was from Williamstown Victoria not Sydney.

Does it remotely surprise anyone that there is an equal and opposite reaction (note..REACTION) to such attitudes among some enthusiastic Aussies ? Kiss the flag or we will beat you up is a bit over the top, but a simple encouraging plea for nationalistic loyalty is not.

All of this of course, reflects the lamentable lack of civic pride and cultural reality which is inculcated at the school and education level.

Why dont the organizers request that everybody bring an Australian flag to the event and wave it. Then all the ethnic groups there will be waving their countries flag and there will be no fights.

If some ehtnic groups there don't want to fly their countries flag then could they please explain why. They are Australian aren't they?