ambiguity comes after a\u00a0major trade union called for the government to remove\u00a0the Union\u00a0Jack<\/a> from the flag.<\/p>\nThe Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) released its action “blueprint” ahead of Labor’s\u00a0National Conference in Adelaide starting on Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
One section of the “working-class\u00a0agenda”\u00a0called\u00a0for the removal of “symbols of oppression” to advance solidarity with Indigenous people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We need to strip away the constant reminders of the old ruling class and colonial empire,” the document\u00a0read.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Symbols of oppression, like the Union Jack on our flag and offensive colonial statues, must be removed from public life.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The workers’ union advocated against public celebrations of symbols linked to Indigenous dispossession.<\/p>\n
The AMWU believed “working class people today did not commit these colonial crimes” but have “inherited the system that emerged from them”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“A system that\u00a0favours\u00a0the rich and powerful. We therefore\u00a0inherit\u00a0the obligation to fix its biggest wrongs,” it continued.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The AMWU document, released ahead of that meeting, also called for higher top marginal tax rates, wealth and inheritance taxes and universally free essential services.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government will not change the national flag, a spokesperson says, after the Housing Minister was unable to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[391455,391468,379004,391438,391460,391435,391458,383301,391445,391476,381288,384623,391429,3443,16169,371173,391481,64,8931,63,306869,382081,36974,12769,40141,391453,71300,391451,2322,11011,391478,3786,391463,362025,152847,391433,154931,391470,391464,1788,31478,336449,391432,13053,391465,46358,391441,381011,124282,44,391461,391437,391466,391430,391448,391471,391457,391485,391454,391449,46075,46907,378707,391484,115837,226526,378201,391467,391483,378344,391474,391477,391479,391452,391473,391443,391480,391431,391446,23023,391440,378979,382251,391472,376785,378354,391436,391444,391462,391427,383419,391456,391428,103578,391434,391450,391475,378894,391447,391482,9357,24080,7570,7893,391439,391469,391442,41313,391459],"class_list":["post-816400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-sunrise","tag-a-change","tag-a-debate","tag-a-document","tag-a-government-spokesperson","tag-a-labor-linked-union","tag-a-major-trade-union","tag-a-moment","tag-a-radical-proposal","tag-a-senior-labor-minister","tag-a-spokesperson","tag-a-system","tag-anbspmajor-trade-union","tag-adelaide","tag-albanese-government","tag-amwu","tag-an-anticipated-flag-debate","tag-au","tag-auspol","tag-australia","tag-australian-flag","tag-australian-manufacturing-workers-union","tag-australian-politics","tag-channel-seven","tag-clare-oneil","tag-colonial-empire","tag-debate","tag-federal-housing-minister","tag-federal-politics","tag-flag","tag-flag-changes","tag-government","tag-higher-top-marginal-tax-rates","tag-housing-minister","tag-housing-minister-clare-oneil","tag-indigenous-dispossession","tag-indigenous-people","tag-its-action-blueprint","tag-its-biggest-wrongs","tag-labor","tag-labor-party","tag-labor-party-conference","tag-ministers-and-members","tag-morning","tag-ms-oneil","tag-mum","tag-my-personal-view","tag-my-time","tag-national-conference","tag-news","tag-oneil","tag-offensive-colonial-statues","tag-one-section","tag-one-union","tag-oppression","tag-other-reminders","tag-our-flag","tag-party-conference-pressure","tag-public-celebrations","tag-public-life","tag-reforms","tag-saturday","tag-skynews-com-au","tag-snapp-politics","tag-solidarity","tag-symbols","tag-that-meeting","tag-the-working-class-agenda","tag-the-working-classnbspagenda","tag-the-albanese-government","tag-the-ambiguity","tag-the-amwu","tag-the-amwu-document","tag-the-australian-flag","tag-the-australian-manufacturing-workers","tag-the-colonial-empire","tag-the-constant-reminders","tag-the-document","tag-the-flag","tag-the-government","tag-the-housing-minister","tag-the-idea","tag-the-labor-party","tag-the-labor-party-national-conference","tag-the-matter","tag-the-morning","tag-the-national-conference","tag-the-national-flag","tag-the-obligation","tag-the-old-ruling-class","tag-the-possibility","tag-the-removal","tag-the-rich-and-powerful","tag-the-system","tag-the-union-jack","tag-the-unionnbspjack","tag-the-upcoming-labor-party-national-conference","tag-the-workers","tag-their-policy-platform","tag-these-colonial-crimes","tag-thursday","tag-today","tag-tomorrow","tag-union","tag-union-jack","tag-universally-free-essential-services","tag-wealth-and-inheritance-taxes","tag-wednesday","tag-working-class-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}