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Will Australia be forced to change its flag in 2014 if Scotland votes yes?
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Who says that makes you australian?
Your lineage is just boat people
I don't know what you are trying to say.
My origin in Australia. Anything which originates in Australia is Australian. Whether I am indigenous to Australia is a completely different concept.
The federation star originated in Australia and symbolises Australia's government.
The Union Jack originated in the UK and symbolises the union of England Scotland and Wales.
I have NFI why you are trying to obfuscate a pretty obvious point of difference.
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Wow, truly wow. It's Australian? The British Union Jack and a star constellation unique to the sthn hemisphere.
No other nation with any ideal of self worth has their former colonial masters flag plastered all over their own. For the 21st century it's comical and downright embarrassing.
Well perhaps it's time Australia spilt.Australia revolution?
Yep. Very proud of the flag. A nod to our history and founders. It's good to belong to something bigger imo.
If you need another flag to have some sort of self worth or pride in your nation, your searching for something you'll never find.
We have better weather, beer, entertainment, beaches, women and accent. Be proud of what you can enjoy.
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No one has better beer than Britain
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Wright Away
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If the flag represents heritage, then why does it not display racist images and writing as Australia was born out of racism and fear of the other. The character of this nation was forged in ignorant protectionism. So why not have these fine things recognised on our flag? If that is what the flag is for.
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We should replace the Union Jack with something very Australian like the eureka flag designed by a Canadian!
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Eureka Flag would represent that perfectly.
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The Scottish independence movement saddens me greatly. Not because of the end of empire, i couldn't care less about it as a soft republican. But the English and the Scottish are one people who have been driven apart by foreign influences (Gealic, Angles, Normans, Vikings) that go back a thousand years, but at the heart of it they are the same people.
As for the Australian flag. I believe in organic change, when the masses want it and the debate is being had then i guess it will be put to the vote. But i'd imagine it would be need to come from a broader ideological and political shift rather than it being a single issue.
As for the Australian flag. I believe in organic change, when the masses want it and the debate is being had then i guess it will be put to the vote. But i'd imagine it would be need to come from a broader ideological and political shift rather than it being a single issue.
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Yeah. Fear of the French.
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Wright Away, all countries have issues of racism , and your talking about when Australia became a country in 1900, attitudes were different then , and places evolve, please get the huge chip off your shoulder and time for you to maybe go and have a look at other countries and their entrenched racism problems, before pointing the finger at Australia ,
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No one has better beer than Britain
Old Speckled Hen- though Hobgoblin is good.... and Fork Handles... ooh, I need a beer!
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I was born a pom & the only connection i have left to old blighty is when England kicks the arse of Australia in both cricket & rugby.
Doubt very much that the Scots will vote in the affirmative anyway in the partial move away from the UK.
We definitely should not have a foreign monarch as our head of state, not sure about the flag though as a lot of sentiment & history is in that flag.
German beer is superior to all other beers, very cheap & no massive hangover in the morning.
Doubt very much that the Scots will vote in the affirmative anyway in the partial move away from the UK.
We definitely should not have a foreign monarch as our head of state, not sure about the flag though as a lot of sentiment & history is in that flag.
German beer is superior to all other beers, very cheap & no massive hangover in the morning.
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I hope so 
Kinda ironic that the movement for a scottish parliament was given a kick along by braveheart, with mel gibson an austral-american weaving part fiction part fact which nevertheless gave an emotional kick to scottish nationalism
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Truth be told there isn't any difference between lowland Scots and Northern Englishmen.
