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Originally posted by chodadog@May 13 2004, 01:08 PM
Well, i think it's a given that the Australian Flag doesn't reprepsent freedom. What with the union jack up there in the top left corner and all.
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Now you MAY have just been having a dig, but I cannot help myself...
One really should check their facts before they make posts about things they know shit about.
As CJ said, our flag is just a flag, we don't place a such emphasis on it as others may......
Us Aussies are also a pretty laid back bunch (bordering on apathic actually), we are split between remaining a monarchy or becoming a republic. When we have referedums here to change things in the constitution, most Aussies really don't give a fuck, and historically, referendum questions are more likely than not to come back in the negative.
On the flag.. well, many of our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought and died under that flag in the last 100 years in the 3 big wars (and the wars that were not really wars for some reason), and I am one of the many who see that as a good enough reason NOT to change.
But we live under the southern cross, NOT the Union Jack.
In real legal terms, England has had SFA impact on us since the Australia Act was passed in 1986, removing the last legal ties through our court system.
Australia is the land of freedom, no question.
Now all we need is a Bill of Rights and we would be set.
