A BURLEIGH WATERS man has infuriated his neighbours by flying a red Nazi flag in his backyard over the Anzac weekend.

Elderly couple Patrick, 80, and Doreen Hinks, 79, woke early on Sunday morning to find the red Nazi flag fluttering in the wind by their backyard.

media_camera Burleigh Waters couple Patrick and Doreen Hinks are disgusted at their neighbour who flew a Nazi flag on the Anzac Day weekend.

The pair said they had been embroiled in a bitter dispute with their neighbour for more than three years and believe the Swastika was an act of retaliation.

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“He has been trying to get us to stop flying the Australian flag in our backyard because he doesn’t like the noise it makes when he flutters,” Mrs Hinks said.

“He has taken it too far this time because we can see the Nazi flag from our living room while we are watching the Anzac coverage. It is very offensive and he doesn’t know if some of our neighbours are Jewish and lost people in the holocaust in World War II.”

media_camera Burleigh Waters man Patrick Hinks, 80, was forced to look at a Swastika from his living room during the Anzac Day weekend.

When questioned by the Gold Coast Bulletin the man said he was within his rights to fly the flag.

“It is not against the law and I’m not doing anything wrong,” he said.

“I’ll take it down when I am good and ready.”

Mr Hinks, who runs the Burleigh Waters Neighbourhood Watch, phoned triple zero when he saw the flag but was told nothing could be done.

“Our grandson is in the army so this really bothers us,” he said.

“We just want someone to come around and talk to the guy so we don’t have to see a swastika from our living room.”

Queensland police declined to comment on the matter.

media_camera A Nazi flag was pinned to a child’s trampoline over the Anzac Day weekend.

Burleigh RSL sub-branch president Chris Keating said he was disgusted that the “sickening” flag had been flown on the Gold Coast so soon after Anzac Day.

“It is just shameful to think of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regimen that this flag represents,” he said.

“It is pretty sick and whoever is doing it cannot be right in the bloody head. There is no law against it which is why we are a democracy but we cannot let such a sick thing like this ruin Anzac Day.”

media_camera Burleigh Waters couple Patrick and Doreen Hinks say they have been for year fighting with their neighbour over their Australian flag.

The red, white and black flag of the Nazi party is legal in Australia and most other countries.

Ownership or restrictions on the flying of the flag is banned in several European countries including Germany, France and Hungary.

Burleigh councillor Greg Betts said he was disturbed by the flag’s use but warned the council had no power to order the flag’s removal.

“As much as I would rather not see this sort of thing, there are no laws against bad taste,” he said.

“Obviously this is a neighbourhood dispute but it is unusual that someone would go to such extreme lengths and I would rather they just sit down and talk about it.

“Neither council or any other level of government has the power to remove it because the trade-off of freedom of speech is that people can display things which are distasteful to others.”