You've got that wrong too Pete.

Turnbull will never be PM of Oz, unless he switches to the labor party, & I doubt they would ever make a pale copy of Rudd, their leader.

The Libs would lose so much of their support with Turnbull, [that pale copy of Rudd] as leader, they would have no chance of being elected.

plantagenet,
The chequered Police Ribbon is missing on your new flag ? You know the blue & white one that symbolises corruption & connivery in our justice system ?

Yes individual

The flag I'm proposing has that pleasing lack of Instrument of Authority which blights the current flag. The current flag is a derivative of a Royal Navy warship of the type that once ruled the waves. Police line is another possibility.

Note that the ANZACs fought under the Union Jack, not under the current Australian flag. We are developing away from the Union Jack.

The flag I'm proposing paints a metaphor for Australia - a healthy country, sporting the green and gold, sitting beneath the Southern Cross http://youtu.be/iJsO0dlvJyI .

Pete

The very idea of flags is, and has always been, a very bad idea. Rather than promoting inclusion, flags promote separatism and nationalism, and are often used as symbols under which terrible atrocities are committed, both in attack and defence. Atrocities are glorified if you're the winner.

AdrianD,
Upon closer inspection you'll find that religion is doing what you blame flags of.
Australia was no Nation in the true sense of the word before the British justifyably or not claimed this land.
The indigenous had no cohesive nation as such. They inherited this land by what appears to be accidental back in the dim, dark ages & going by their many legends their lifestyle was one of conflict. They had no flag but they had their superstitions which of course are akin to the religions of other cultures.
As for a new flag, would it really make any difference to the dreadful mentality we have now in generation Y ? I don't think so.