Submitted by Paul Daley on
A change to Australia’s awful colonial flag could be justified as an act of Menzies-style pragmatism by a new leader of the Liberal party, couldn’t it?
When it comes to questions of Australian national identity few topics raise such heat and fury as our national flag. The current Australian flag, with its dominant British union jack, is an anachronistic colonial throwback that ought to be ditched along with Prince Philip’s knighthood.
While we’re at it, let’s take one step further and redesign the flag as a first step on the long overdue road to an Australian republic. It’s time to talk about it again.
Related: Fiji to remove ‘outdated’ union jack from flag
The names of 102,000 men and women are here (at the memorial) on the roll of honour. Almost all lie in distant lands from the Boer war, two world wars and Korea, through to Vietnam, Afghanistan and numerous other conflicts and operations. They went in our uniform, under our flag and in our name. But their lives were finally given up in support of one another.
- Log in to post comments