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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
A flag is not for those that fought and died "under it" ..??? that's plain crazy, rather it is to stand for a nation and what it wishes to see itself as and what it wishes to represent. It stands that 50,000 years ago Indonesians walked onto what is now Australia and became Indigenous Australians...
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Sorry Matt but I just don't agree that the flag has anything at all to do with who fought any war while it was our flag design..? It should stand for what we are not what we were 
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I'm not sure how that would sit with the diggers that died in Afganistan who wore our flag on their left shoulder, and who's coffins were draped in it upon their return.
I know people who have fought for this country and our flag is important to them.
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Originally Posted by astroron
I would say most people are quite happy with the flag we have.
It is only when people start rattling the can and beating the drum
that any one even thinks about it.
NZ just proved that the empty cans makes the loudest noise, even their prime minister couldn't get the change the flag vote across the line, and he was the instigator of the flag change.
Leave the flag alone, I am proud of it, in fact I have it flying above my observatory.
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Totally agree. Love it. Leave it. Don't turn it into a fashion statement.