" What Sayeth The People ??? "

[polly.the.cat]

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This Weeks Question:    Is it about Time to Change or Replace Our Australian Flag ?

Editor's Thought:   Whilst Australia is still a Member of The Commonwealth Heads of Government, their are other CHOG Members that DO NOT have the Union Jack displayed on their Country Flag, e.g. Canada, PNG, Cyprus, Zambia, etc, etc. to name a few.

Fifty-three countries are members of the Commonwealth. Our countries span Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Pacific and are diverse – they are amongst the world’s largest, smallest, richest and poorest countries. Thirty-one of our members are classified as small states – countries with a population size of 1.5 million people or less and larger member states that share similar characteristics with them.

All members subscribe to the Commonwealth’s values and principles outlined in The Commonwealth Charter.

- See more at: http://thecommonwealth.org/member-countries#sthash.LrhxvIAy.dpuf

So is it time for us to move with the times, and look at redesigning our National **bleep**, into something more " Aussie " ?

" What Sayeth The People ? "

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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@lal-au0 wrote:

so you think we should ignore who was here first and fly the british flag?

do you have a faint idea how sick the rest of the world is of british/US arrogance?

having that english stuff in our flag denigrates us to servants of the empire (which btw does not exist anymore, just for clarification for the ones who havent noticed yet).

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But, the fact remains that OUR Queen, Yes, OUR Queen, is Queen Elizabeth of England. Until we are a Democracy it is fitting that our flag stays the same - THEN you can have this debate again - and I promise I won't even comment on the eventual choice of flag - why? Because I don't care. Have a Picaso style kangaroo if you want.

But, it still doesn't make the existing Aboriginals the 'First Australians'.

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It's not your call.  The aboriginal people (and their descendants) who were here when the Brit's rejects arrived are the original custodians of this country, Australia. Is there any proof of that? 

But that's beside the point.  

If we're not yet a democracy, what you you call us?  Meant "Republic" - didn't I.

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[gleee58]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

just had a look at the link with flag options - why would you have a kangaroo? what other countries have got an animal on their flag? There may be some, I don't know?

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They don't all have a kangaroo on them, do they?

That is just one site and there is no competition or much of a debate at present either, about the flag. So why the shock, horror routine?

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

just had a look at the link with flag options - why would you have a kangaroo? what other countries have got an animal on their flag? There may be some, I don't know?

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They don't all have a kangaroo on them, do they?

That is just one site and there is no competition or much of a debate at present either, about the flag. So why the shock, horror routine?

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shock? horror? who me? 

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@opmania wrote:

There are lots of aborigines that have coupled with whites 

Of their own choosing then and now

I'm a decendant of vikings but I don't claim land rights to any part

Of Scandinavia

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Why would you - the Vikings were specifically those Scandinavians who left ther owni countries to rape, pillage and finally settle elsewhere. 

I presume you claim land rights to your little bit of Australia.

[opmania]

You claim to be a pom

Go back far enough on your family 

Tree and you'll find Viking in there 

As well 

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@opmania wrote:

You claim to be a pom

Go back far enough on your family 

Tree and you'll find Viking in there 

As well 

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Quite possibly - though I haven't found any surnames yet to suggest that. My maiden name was Cornes, My dad's family came from the Welsh borders and he always reckoned we were descended from a British tribe called the Cornovii. My mother's maiden name was Wade, which is about as Anglo-Saxon as they come, but she did have an Irish  great grandfather - a Ryan. Her great grandmother was a Lansbury, so I am distantly related both to George Lansbury -  a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935 - and to Malcolm Turnbull (whose mother was a Lansbury)