ABCC bans Eureka flag! (153 years too late!)

Eureka: Workers on a Melbourne building site fly the banned flag.

THE Federal Government's building industry watchdog has banned the Eureka flag and ordered construction companies to remove it from sites, saying its presence intimidates people into joining the union.

The Age has obtained a copy of an email from an Australian Building and Construction Commission staff member in Melbourne, Carol Hage, to an Adelaide building company telling them to remove the flag.

"The flag represents the union and gives the impression that to work on the site you need to be a union member. This is therefore a breach of freedom of association," Ms Hage wrote on July 5.

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ps Howard's puerile antipathy to the Eureka Flag was dramatically shown on the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion (2004) when every parliament in Australia flew the flag EXCEPT Federal Parliament the only house that Howard controlled!