Queensland MPs Urged to Put Party Politics Aside and Back Flag-Burning Bill
Katter's Australian Party has introduced a bill in Queensland that would impose a maximum six-month prison sentence for burning the Australian flag.
TL;DR
- Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter is urging Queensland MPs to support a bill to criminalize the burning of the Australian flag.
- The Summary Offences (Protection of the Australian Flag) Amendment Bill 2026 was introduced in the Queensland Parliament in April.
- The bill proposes a maximum penalty of six months' imprisonment for burning the Australian flag in circumstances likely to provoke public disorder.
- Katter encourages MPs to support the bill regardless of party politics.