Foxy

I'm with you 100%.

I always look, with envy, at the Canadian flag - there's no mistaking that inimitable design.

FG

I'm 5th gen white Australian, proud of my forebears who both fought in the major wars and contributed to this country, so I don't get your point about linking military service and retaining the Australian Flag as is.

I'd also like to point out that my father returned from fighting with an abhorrence of guns, a refusal to have anything to do with the RSL and a belief that Australia can do better than blindly follow the big boys. He would say that a unique flag that actually represents this country would be a good start.

Foxy, I don't have any problem with the ozzie flag being connected to our heritage by way of bearing the union jack.

I cannot get enthused about changing our flag unless it is to become the symbol of a whole new era of governance, that is predicated on sustainability thus taking us right away from the blithering absurdity of never-ending growthism.

Having a British component on our flag, to me, doesn't mean we are any lesser but is an indication of our past history.

All the same, maybe it is time we had a new distinctive flag. In fact, it doesn't have to be a new flag. The Southern Cross was hoisted over 150 years ago at the Eureka Stockade. This represented the resistance of Australian and foreign miners against oppression. A fitting flag for our nation.

I agree with Foxy, to an extent. We definitely need a new flag. A flag that represents us all. Not one that only represents the Anglo colonists. We aren't just an Anglo colony of Great Britain, we are much more that. Australia is made up of many cultures who ALL came here on a boat or a plane except the original peoples.
I am of Aboriginal descent. We have been here for 40,000 years. I would like to see some representation of Indigenous Australians on the flag. Perhaps the Aboriginal flag/colours, and the Torres Straight Islander flag/colours incorporated somehow. Also some multicultural symbol amongst this, so we can ALL relate to it and feel proud of a nation that includes us all.

Well said Fractelle!!

Foxy “difficult to distinguish between the British and Australian flags..”

Then it is a good job New Zealand do not figure more prominent among the Olympic luminaries.

To the Aussie v British flag, they are a lot different, the union jack representing a portion of the whole Australian flag, rather than the whole thing.

I am not a monarchist and nor am I a republican.

In terms of the ‘flag’ ask yourself this

If we were to change the flag, what difference would it actually make to your life.

Would you live longer?
Would you eat better?
Would you be a more humane or charitable person”
Would you be able to do greater things?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, then you might have a case to change it.

However, if you answered ‘no’, I guess the old adage applies

If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.