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Originally Posted by Astrophe
The present Australian flag is a colonial relic and is no longer relevant to many Australians (whose ancestry is non Anglo/Celtic) and to many of Anglo/Celtic ancestry, as well.
It sends the wrong signal to the world at large, that we are still a colonial appendage of Great Brittan. We are most definitely not that and further, it sends the wrong message to ourselves. We need a new flag to express the present realities of modern-day Australia, with its diverse ethnicity.
The same arguments apply to the Australian head of state. At present, we have a foreigner as our head of state. This sends the wrong message to ourselves and to others. Just think of this..... under the present arrangements, no Australian can ever hold the office of Australian head of state....that office will be held, in perpetuity, by a foreigner. No Australian can ever aspire to be our head of state. Surely, this cannot continue. I have nothing personal against Her Majesty the Queen, she is entirely an estimable person in every way. But this argument is not about the suitability of the Queen or the future King Charles lll, it's about the fundamental proposition that an Australian should be the Australian head of state.... President or Governor General, the title doesn't really matter that much.
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The current flag reflects our history and ancestry. Same thing with New Zealand. Even the U.S.A. did not find it necessary to remove the Union Jack from the Hawaiian flag-it's part of Hawaii's history.
Our history and where we came from, warts and all, is just as important as where we are going.
As for our political system, it seems to work well enough, and without the violence of many republics-even the U.S.A.