Red Flag (newspaper)

The first issue of Red Flag was published on 12 June 2013.^[1]

In July 2014, the newspaper was criticised after publishing an issue featured a front page depicting then Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott with a razor to his neck and the caption "One cut we'd like to see", in protest of the Abbott government's proposed budget cuts.^[4] In an interview, Abbott stated that the image "should not have any place in our public discourse".^[3] The editors refused to apologise and defended the cover as an homage to a 1977 poster and political slogan "Give Fraser the razor!", while accusing critics of hypocrisy for defending Abbott from a "clearly metaphorical" threat at the same time as his government was deporting refugees to face real threats of violence. They nonetheless withdrew the edition due to "legal concerns".^[5]

In 2019, Red Flag editor Ben Hillier's articles provided on-the-ground coverage of the siege and student rebellions at Hong Kong Polytechnic.^[6] Hillier's eyewitness account has been documented in his book, The Art of Rebellion: Dispatches from Hong Kong.^[7]

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