On the absolutely ridiculous ‘debate’ over Welcome to Country, something that only became an issue after LITERAL NAZIS gatecrashed an Anzac dawn service to protest the Welcome, Jacqui Lambie says:

I will leave that for the associations right across, whether it’s on Anzac Day or any other time. If you’re having a meeting, you know, I think that’s your decision whether – that’s your association, whether you decide whether you want that, whether you want to sing a national anthem, that’s for people in charge of running whatever is going on that day. That’s for them to discuss with those people who do those ceremonies, and also with the national anthem. I thought this was going to become a problem in years to come. I can see it’s starting to, you know, rear its ugly head. I think this will be very interesting over the next months just to see whether that sort of evaporates.

Q: I was curious of your views. You have spoken of Indigenous issues in the past. Do you fear this topic is becoming a political football, because we’re in the final spotlight of an election campaign?

Lambie:

I think that, yeah, I’m surprised this is becoming a hot topic in the last few days, going into the election. It just goes to show how bored people are with policies out there, there’s no doubt about it. I would hope that, you know, I would just hope this doesn’t get vicious over the next few days or anything like this. That people aren’t carrying on about this at polling booths. There’s much bigger issues on the table. One for housing out there, and the cost of living, which is absolutely killing people and trying to keep our small to medium businesses open, really, really difficult. And they’re not getting a fair go from state or federal government at all.