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Have your say with a ballot

The upheaval in Canberra on Australia Day, caused by a bunch of stirrers, has put back 75 years of Indigenous and non-Indigenous working towards reconciliation. If I set up an Embassy in front of Parliament House, I would be in trouble with the law straightaway. However if I want to make a statement on a matter, I can make it through the ballot box. My vote can change the Government of the day. The same goes for Indigenous people. Burning the flag of Australia is a criminal offence, anyone who does this should be persecuted. To protect this country from invasion of foreign forces to takeover Australia and for us Australians to lose our freedom and way of life.

Derek Weier,
Allora

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