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  • Students out to quench flag-burners

    02/21/2006 7:25:58 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 16 replies · 434+ views
    news.com.au ^ | 22 February 2006
    SOME University of Queensland students aim to put a dampener on moves to set fire to an Australian flag. The university's Liberal Club president Julian Simmonds says he has several buckets of free water available today to anyone who objects to "the madness". Youth Socialist group Resistance has been selling $5 flag-burning kits in the Great Court of the university's St Lucia campus. "We have seen them around, they have been selling them but no-one has lit up any flags yet," Mr Simmonds said. "We are just trying to show people this isn't the way to go. "So, if someone...