New Aussie Flag

skully wrote:This is pretty grouse...

Good times.

The Union Jack can make anything look presentable

Get ye out, ye farquin Scottish heathen.

JKLever wrote:The Union Jack can make anything look presentable

[RED] Union Flag surely [RED]

Bump - this is getting a bit of airplay this week after our foreign minister told the BBC that no one in Aust wants it changed.

Apparently the Southern Cross is "very Australian".

The Australian flag has been hijacked by bogans. 

The Southern Cross tattoo is practically a racist bogan's badge of honour.

Aye.

Henry wrote:The Australian flag has been hijacked by bogans. 

The Southern Cross tattoo is practically a racist bogan's badge of honour.

The Aus-tika

JGK wrote:Bump - this is getting a bit of airplay this week after our foreign minister told the BBC that no one in Aust wants it changed.

Apparently the Southern Cross is "very Australian".

The Southern Cross appears on a number of flags : New Zealand, Papua, Samoa & Brazil. Its definitely not uniquely Australian.

Henry wrote:The Australian flag has been hijacked by bogans. 

The Southern Cross tattoo is practically a racist bogan's badge of honour.

spot on...I would support a new flag with the First People's flag replacing the union jack and retention of the sthn cross but on a black background...but then I also support myself winning the lottery each week for a year - that has more chance of happening

The southern cross incorporated with the blackfella flag in some way.

As for it being on a number of flags.....So are stars, SFW!

qmy....I expect we would be in a minority - even among Oz FB'ers

Aye. We're so backwards compared to the Kiwis.

all we need to do is get rid of the ****** british union flag and bung the commonwealth star up there
no history and no politics just a simple easily recognizable design

...or a bat and sickle

horace wrote:qmy....I expect we would be in a minority - even among Oz FB'ers

I said way earlier on this thread that the Aboriginal flag is a cracker and I'd be happy with a variation of it as the national flag.

hmmn...that is 3/4 and etg might be persuaded too

horace wrote:hmmn...that is 3/4 and etg might be persuaded too

i could live with it but it wouldn't be popular amongst the mainstream

JGK wrote:

horace wrote:qmy....I expect we would be in a minority - even among Oz FB'ers

I said way earlier on this thread that the Aboriginal flag is a cracker and I'd be happy with a variation of it as the national flag.

It would make a nice tablecloth.

interesting...the current one - when replaced - will find many uses - eg dustcloth,

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:all we need to do is get rid of the ****** british union flag

You wouldn't be the country you are today were it not for our selfless efforts to better your nation over many years.

I think it only fair that the Union Jack stays to remind the world of this fact.

vilkrang wrote:

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:all we need to do is get rid of the ****** british union flag

You wouldn't be the country you are today were it not for our selfless efforts to better your nation over many years.

I think it only fair that the Union Jack stays to remind the world of this fact.

And that is not including the time and effort Trev has expended.

vilkrang wrote:

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:all we need to do is get rid of the ****** british union flag

You wouldn't be the country you are today were it not for our selfless efforts to better your nation over many years.

I think it only fair that the Union Jack stays to remind the world of this fact.

That is the opinion of the majority. Its only the vocal, lefty, revisionist minority who want to change it. The usual idiodic excuse is that Australia is now a multicultural country so we have to have a flag that reflects this. Its crap. I suspect that most immigrants were glad to leave their old culture behind. Why else would they come here. The Union Jack reflects the heritage that has given us a prosperous, wealthy & stable country that is the envy of the free world & the very reason immigrants come here.

just change it to the boxing kangaroo and be done with it

Why change it?
 
The Union Jack in the top left corner adds a sparkle colour . . .
 
Imagine how bland the flag would look if it were just a dark blue background with a whole array of white blobs liberally sprikled across it.
 
Like confetti blowing across the sky just before sunset.