We are one but we are many

Some Australian were and are bought up either in England and/or in Australia with English traditions.

TGSE is Australian and she was perhaps bought up as you say English ?

My DD was born in Australia and is Australian....her Father (my husband) is English by Birth and citizenship ,her Mother (me) is Australian by birth and citizenship .

My DD is Australian regardless of the traditions we raise her with 

Should my OH wish to become an Australian citizen...he will be an Australian too 

Right over your head. Again.

Could you please tell me what exactly you consider an Australian to be and do ?

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@azureline** wrote:
Wave your flag

Dont wave your flag

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Yes. Do whatever, it's the Australian way.

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
Basically it's jingoism and I don't have time for it.

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Even that great British Imperialist, Rudyard Kipling,  poured scorn on it.

This is an excerpt from his novel, Stalky And Co, where a politician visits Stalky's boarding school to lecture the boys on "Patriotism."

After many, many words, he reached for the cloth-wrapped stick and thrust one hand in his bosom. This — this was the concrete symbol of their land — worthy of all honour and reverence! Let no boy look on this flag who did not purpose to worthily add to its imperishable lustre. He shook it before them — a large calico Union Jack, staring in all three colors, and waited for the thunder of applause that should crown his effort.

They looked in silence. They had certainly seen the thing before — down at the coastguard station, or through a telescope, half-mast high when a brig went ashore on Braunton Sands; above the roof of the Golf-club, and in Keyte’s window, where a certain kind of striped sweetmeat bore it in paper on each box. But the College never displayed it; it was no part of the scheme of their lives; the Head had never alluded to it; their fathers had not declared it unto them. It was a matter shut up, sacred and apart. What, in the name of everything caddish, was he driving at, who waved that horror before their eyes? Happy thought! Perhaps he was drunk.

In the book the MP is referred to ever afterwards by the boys as "The jelly-bellied flag flapper.

I'd be more impressed if their hands were over their hearts, usually they are lost over the left side of their chest... not their heart 

Beware of propaganda... it's rife at present.

Pledging allegiance  to flag and/or person was in use long before the USA. It goes back into the dark ages of history.

There were so many small, kings, lords, even churches and all had their own flags.

In the days of knights ect their were even household flags.