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Greens senator Lidia Thorpe said her choice to enter the colonial project was due to her aspirations to renew the nation and said Australian parliament, like the national flag, has no permission to be here.

Aly asked Senator Thorpe if she had given up her First Nations sovereignty by pledging allegiance to the Queen when she entered Parliament - something which irked many online.

Michael von Berg, a Military Cross recipient who served as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War, said he was very angry after Adam Bandts staff removed the Australia flag before a press conference.

Phil Thompson, who survived a bomb exploding a metre in front of him in Afghanistan, described the Greens leader as a national disgrace.

The Prime Minister said he was proud of the flag and accused the Greens leader of looking for division.

Greens leader Adam Bandt was criticised on Monday after he refused to stand alongside the Australian national flag at a press conference.

A member of Mr Bandts staff removed the flag from the behind the podium before the presser at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Office in Sydney on Monday.