Editing Big Day Out (section)

===Flag ban===
[[File:Bigdayout field.jpg|thumb|Entertainment at the 2006 Big Day Out in [[Melbourne, Australia|Melbourne]]]]
On 21 January 2007, a decision was made by the organisers to discourage Big Day Out patrons in Sydney from bringing and displaying the [[Flag of Australia|Australian flag]]. The organisers said the decision was a result of [[2005 Cronulla riots|recent ethnic tensions]] in Sydney and complaints that the previous year's festival had been marred by roving packs of aggressive flag-draped youths.<ref>[http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2C53368F-CACA-48AD-AC9E-7B14E8CB75A6.htm Flag row rocks Australia concert], [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]], Retrieved 28 January 2007</ref>

Sections of the community had strong views in support of or objection to the policy. [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[John Howard]], [[Premiers of New South Wales|New South Wales Premier]] [[Morris Iemma]], and [[List of Australian Opposition Leaders|Federal Leader of the Opposition]] [[Kevin Rudd]] all condemned the move. Iemma suggested the event be cancelled if the organisers could not secure the attendees' safety. Main stage act [[Jet (band)|Jet]] performed in front of a large backdrop of a black-and-white Australian flag cut-out of their name, with lead vocalist [[Nic Cester]] adding, "I can't tell anyone else what to do but we as a band are very proud to be Australian and we don't want to feel we are not allowed to feel proud".<ref>{{cite news |first=Kathy |last=McCabe |author2=Benson, Simon |title=Big Day Out flag ban sparks fury |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21096947-10388,00.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]] |date=22 January 2007 |access-date=22 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616172326/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0%2C23663%2C21096947-10388%2C00.html |archive-date=16 June 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref>

Other people including [[Andrew Bartlett]] of the [[Australian Democrats]], sports writer [[Peter FitzSimons]], and members of the hip-hop outfit [[The Herd (Australian band)|The Herd]] expressed concern that the flag was being misused by a handful of aggressive attendees in a jingoist manner and that rock concerts were not the appropriate venue to be waving a flag.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21095817-5001021,00.html | title=Fly your Aussie flag | first=Luke | last=McIlveen | date=22 January 2007 | work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

On the first day of the 2007 Sydney Big Day Out, significant numbers of patrons attended the event wearing Australian flag-related apparel or carrying Australian flags.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} No one was refused entry and no flag-related material or clothing was confiscated.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} After that date, there were no further suggestions of banning the Australian flag from Big Day Out events.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}