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Fiji changing flag first 'embarrassing' for Australia

AUSTRALIA has become one of a small group of former British colonies to keep the Union Jack on its flag, after Fiji moved for change.

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced in a New Year's Day address that his country will be getting a new flag.

Harold Scruby, executive director of Ausflag - a group campaigning for a new flag design - said it is an embarrassment that Fiji will change its national flag before Australia.

"Australians need to wake up," Mr Scruby told Australian Associated Press today.

"We need to stop playing the emperor's new clothes and pretending this flag is an Australian flag. It is not.

"How embarrassing Fiji has beaten us to it. I think it is disappointing that a country like Fiji has got so much more vision than a country like Australia."

http://www.news.com.au/national/fiji-changing-flag-first-embarrassing/story-fndo4eg9-1226546610388
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I think I'd like to change the flag.

I think I like the one with Uluru on it.
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Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck!
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Strip off the Union Jack - Just leave the Southern Cross; And I could possibly abide it - But for FFS spare us all the silly pretentious crap about 'national identity' or whatever that will almost CERTAINLY end up with our flag looking like that of every other republic - Truly Bananna or just a tad less so.

Hmmm ... Alternatively I could just maybe live with some sort of depiction of the rising sun cap (and shoulder) badge that so many of Oz's soldiers have fought and died under. But anything else sounds/looks parochial/silly?
Edited by herbie, 2 Jan 2013, 10:42 PM.
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2 Jan 2013, 10:23 PM
Strip off the Union Jack - Just leave the Southern Cross; And I could possibly abide it - But for FFS spare us all the silly pretentious crap about 'national identity' or whatever that will almost CERTAINLY end up with our flag looking like that of every other republic - Truly Bananna or just a tad less so.

Hmmm ... Alternatively I could just maybe live with some sort of depiction of the rising sun cap (and shoulder) badge that so many of Oz's soldiers have fought and died under. But anything else sounds/looks parochial/silly?
I think the mindless jingoism has ruined the southern cross.

These are often the types who rely on tradie jobs that come with building apartments for the Chinese. :lol

To me the current flag is just about what was, the good old days, not what is. No point having the english, scottish and irish flags represented in the union jack when during the property boom and during the time when pc was thrust down our throat a lot of the so called australians that derived from these people have proven to be as australian as kim jong's dick.

Like BP. :D

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Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments.
Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck!
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Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
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2 Jan 2013, 05:40 PM
Fiji changing flag first 'embarrassing' for Australia

AUSTRALIA has become one of a small group of former British colonies to keep the Union Jack on its flag, after Fiji moved for change.

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced in a New Year's Day address that his country will be getting a new flag.

Harold Scruby, executive director of Ausflag - a group campaigning for a new flag design - said it is an embarrassment that Fiji will change its national flag before Australia.

"Australians need to wake up," Mr Scruby told Australian Associated Press today.

"We need to stop playing the emperor's new clothes and pretending this flag is an Australian flag. It is not.

"How embarrassing Fiji has beaten us to it. I think it is disappointing that a country like Fiji has got so much more vision than a country like Australia."

http://www.news.com.au/national/fiji-changing-flag-first-embarrassing/story-fndo4eg9-1226546610388
Is that the same harold Scruby who ran the Pedestrian Council of Australia? What a fucking lunatic - despite running a media scare campaign against cars with more than 3 cylinders, he still managed to run over a pedestrian on the footpath!
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herbie
2 Jan 2013, 10:23 PM
Strip off the Union Jack - Just leave the Southern Cross; And I could possibly abide it - But for FFS spare us all the silly pretentious crap about 'national identity' or whatever that will almost CERTAINLY end up with our flag looking like that of every other republic - Truly Bananna or just a tad less so.

Hmmm ... Alternatively I could just maybe live with some sort of depiction of the rising sun cap (and shoulder) badge that so many of Oz's soldiers have fought and died under. But anything else sounds/looks parochial/silly?
We should have chucked the union jack out in about 1940, then chucked that for the Hinomaru during the 1980s, and now we should have the Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí floating majestically above the Southern Cross.
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3 Jan 2013, 09:07 AM
We should have chucked the union jack out in about 1940, then chucked that for the Hinomaru during the 1980s, and now we should have the Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí floating majestically above the Southern Cross.
With the stars and stripes being the ever present background.
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3 Jan 2013, 07:28 AM
Is that the same harold Scruby who ran the Pedestrian Council of Australia? What a fucking lunatic - despite running a media scare campaign against cars with more than 3 cylinders, he still managed to run over a pedestrian on the footpath!
He was anti 4WD. So therefore he was ok by me.
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Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments.
Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck!
See here
Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
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3 Jan 2013, 05:30 PM
stinkbug
3 Jan 2013, 07:28 AM
Is that the same harold Scruby who ran the Pedestrian Council of Australia? What a fucking lunatic - despite running a media scare campaign against cars with more than 3 cylinders, he still managed to run over a pedestrian on the footpath!
He was anti 4WD. So therefore he was ok by me.
He was also anti-have-a-brain.
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