Fiji is about to unveil a new flag. The island nation is going to ditch the Union Jack from its flag. Why they waited 45 years to do so is beyond me. The indigenous Fijians owe the British nothing, the Indian population likewise.

Fiji's PM Frank Bainimarama said "The current exercise was a quest for a flag that represents who we are today, rather than our past".

New Zealand, which also has the Union Jack on its flag, will hold a binding referendum next year on whether to change it, with conservative Prime Minister John Key favouring a new design.

Is it time Australia should make such a move.

It isn't a question of whether Australia needs a
new flag. It is a inevitable.
Simply a question of when!

Well Paul1405 and ors, why didn't the the Labor+Greens sidekicks governments of Rudd->Galah'd->Rudd again, take any action? They were in power in Canberra for the long years from 2007 to 2013.

They presided over the 'Struggle Streets' identified by the 'fact-finding' ABC but did nought as well.

Ex-Labor Leader Mark Latham would know and he had this to say,

<Former Labor leader Mark Latham Slams Labor over Gay Marriage

FORMER Labor leader Mark Latham has slammed his party’s “obsession” with gay marriage saying it should focus on the nation’s “Struggle Streets” instead.

He told 3AW radio Bill Shorten’s private members bill to push for changes to the marriage act to allow same-sex couples to tie the knot, to be introduced into parliament on Monday, was nothing more than a symbolic gesture.

He said the biggest social issue facing Austalia was unemployment, drug use and homelessness in suburbs such as Mt Druitt which was the focus of the SBS documentary, Struggle Street.

“If you are interested in equality and social justice in Australia then what was the really big event in the month of May,” he said. “We had the Struggle Street documentary which revealed that in the nation’s public housing estate, most notably in Mt Druit people live in conditions that you wouldn’t wish upon your dogs. Absolute chaos, despair and hopelessness in their lives.

“And surely, you would have expected a serious national response from the party of social justice?
“We didn’t hear anything.
“They’re obsessed, instead, by gay marriage.”>
http://tinyurl.com/Gays-Labor-obsession

Interfering in the private life of gays, trashing the Marriage Act, dumping the flag, the republic NOW! are all smokescreens, diversions for Labor's International Socialists. Labor has no policies and Shorten is frozen in fear, refusing to do anything about the CFMEU and other union heavies, by whose dead-hand he won and holds down his leadership.

Foxy,

"The dominant top left quadrant belongs to the flag
of another nation, making Australian symbolically
subordinate to Britain. That is an anachronism."

and the same set up in the Hawaiian flag makes Hawaii symbolically subordinate to Britain.

Would that not be the perception of people who do not know that Hawaii is a USA state?

What an anachronism for the Hawaiians to have to suffer.

Dear Is Mise,

We've covered this topic earlier.

Hawaiians look at things differently.

Read the link I gave earlier.

Dear Aidan

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was just another engineer like you.

PS Obviously you don't understand how the Chinese kinship system works. But then that's to be expected because you're just an engineer.