I understand the history with it being flown when our soldiers went to war and fought for our freedom that we have.

'When you look at the Australian flag, it's got another country's flag in our flag. 'The black is symbolic for us as people, the yellow is a giver of life and the red is Mother Earth. Ms Peris then explained what the Aboriginal flag means. For myself as a First Nations person, when you look at flags, flags are symbolic, they're about representation,' she said. '(On the Australian flag) We have the Union Jack here and the Southern Cross over there. When you think of the Union Jack, it was planted here in Botany Bay and marked the notion of 'terra nullius' ('nobody's land'). The former Labor senator, Olympian and prominent republican said 'Yeah. The senator, who is part Aboriginal on her mother's side, did not address the question of the Union Jack representing 'terrorism (and) genocide', but another panelist, Nova Peris, did. Bring on a republic, bring on a new flag,' she shouted to laughter and applause from the audience. She was on a roll by then and raised her voice to add that 'The other thing is when it comes to a republic, we're all grown-ups here in Australia and it's about time we stood on our on two feet and don't need a king and queen to do that. Ms Lambie argued this would 'give the youth, who are going to become the leaders of this country, a chance to draw up their own future by doing a flag'. 'They'll get an education about how great this country's come with migrants and how we've all come together, and I think there's only one way to do that and that is creating a brand new flag,' she said.

The Tasmanian Senator said getting children to design a new Australian flag would mean 'they'll get an education about the frontier wars'. 'The only way to do this and to teach people about our history is to throw it out there to those kids, 16 years and under, get them to design the flag and explain to them why we need to change the flag.' Irishman Richard Ryan (pictured centre) asked the Q+A program panel for their 'thoughts on the Union Jack on the Australian flag'

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