Greg Barns

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Australian True Crime · Emergency Episode: Lindsay Clancy's Mistrial, Prison Overcrowding and Character References · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

He's in his eighties now, very wise, and he just said, uh this is just absurd.

He said, When's the last time you heard of flag burning?

I said, Look, I've been involved in protest movements as a legal advisor and I've not heard it.

And uh it'll get challenged.

There'll be an implied freedom argument, which will be interesting because the U.S.

Supreme Court has

as I said has ruled on this many, many years ago, about desecration of the flag.

But you know, you had John O'Dunniham, who's about to retire, who's a liberal, right-wing Liberal senator from Tasmania, said, Oh, I wish we were more like America and people really respected the flag.

Well, I don't respect it.

I'll tell you why I don't respect it, because it's just an imperial flag that bears no relationship to modern Australia and excludes, of course, any recognition.

of the continuing owners of the land, First Nations Australians.

And I mean th this wrapping yourself in a flag is, you know, what what did Johnson say?

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel?

Uh I can't stand it.

Yeah.

All that

By the way, I can't let today go without talking about Nigel Farage and the sting over the weekend.

So for those who haven't caught up, Nigel Farage is the leader of reform, as you probably know.

The

insurgent Trumpian party in the UK, and he and two staffers were set up by Channel Four, I think, in a sting where they're alleged now to have breached electoral laws.

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