National anthem protest: 9yo refuses to stand because anthem is for 'white people of Australia'

National anthem protest: 9yo refuses to stand because anthem is for 'white people of Australia'

Teachers at a Brisbane primary school have disciplined a nine-year-old girl for refusing to stand for the national anthem during assembly.

Primary school student Harper Nielsen was given a lunch time detention on Friday for peacefully protesting against the song she said is "wrong".

"When it says 'we are young' it completely disregards the Indigenous Australians who were here before us for over 50,000 years," she said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-1...sbane/10235792