WA RSL backs down over ban on Aboriginal flag after public backlash
ABCThe WA branch of the RSL has overturned a ban on the performance of Welcome to Country ceremonies and the flying of the Aboriginal flag at Anzac and Remembrance Day services after a public backlash. Chief executive John McCourt said the RSLWA "values and respects the Australian Indigenous community". RSLWA apologises for 'misunderstanding' RSLWA state president Peter Aspinall addressed the matter speaking from Albany in the state's south alongside WA Premier Mark McGowan and WA Minister for Veterans Issues Peter Tinley. RSLWA state president Peter Aspinall said the organisation would conduct a thorough review of its cultural respect policy. What the RSLWA initially proposed All content, bar the New Zealand national anthem, is to be presented or sung in English Only the Australian, New Zealand and WA flags may be flown No Welcome to Country and/or Acknowledgement of Country ceremonies Respecting the right of regal, vice-regal and government representatives to use the Acknowledgement of Country but not at the dawn service or services at recognised war memorials "I believe it's a misunderstanding of what we intended in the way we wrote the cultural respect policy," he said.
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