In a widely mocked move just days after becoming Australian Prime Minister, Mr Scott Morrison gave each of his Cabinet members a lapel pin with the national flag, saying he had worn one for years as a reminder of "whose side I'm on".
"I'm on the side of the Australian people," he declared.
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