The Royal Navy ensign (existing flag) ill befits our wide brown land girt by sea and SUVs.

I prefer this flag http://youtu.be/iJsO0dlvJyI as it has the all important Southern Cross and our national sporting colours:

Green and Gold

Pete

As George Carlin used to say," Flags are symbols for the symbol minded." They are just another elite tool of manipulation to pitch one culture against another.

Well sorry plantagenet, but I'm afraid that looks more suitable for the hairdressers association, than a country. It might however, be a good thing to fight under, provided that is, that your side couldn't see it. The enemy would be so busy rolling on the floor laughing, they would be easy meet.

I can't understand the lefties at all. It is mostly the left who want another flag, perhaps to please our latest immigrants, but they push locking up the future with heritage listing of some of the worst buildings ever built in Oz.

I can only assume they will agree with anything detrimental to the future of Oz.

Very nice flag, Pete.

It ticks a lot of boxes. It makes excellent use of the green and gold which, thanks to Kerry Packer, has lumped us with a disconcerting national colour clash since the 70s. The wave pattern conveys both the vastness of the landscape and the cultural importance of Australia's beaches. And the blue is so much more reflective of the Australian light than the murky maritime blue of the current flag.

Arjay

If we must have a 'elite tool of manipulation to pitch one culture against another', at least let's give ourselves a more stylish one than the ugly thing we've be saddled with for the last century.

Yes Plantagenet, I like that flag too.
It has a fresh Australian look, rather than a colonial British look.

We need only wait a few more years until all those still clinging to the 'Motherland's skirts are too old to care, before we have a referendum to ditch the predominantly English Australian flag!

Thanks Killarney and Suseonline

A new flag push, of course, won't occur under Abbott. However if Abbott is replaced by Turnbull (with republican sympathies) then the new flag may be a goer.

Regards

Pete