Australian Flag Debate (60 Minutes Australia) part 2

The Australian Flag Debate as screened by Channel Nine's 60 Minutes 25/04/2010 (ANZAC Day at 7.30pm).Part 2 of 2.

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[plusplusplusplusp]

I'm sick of these sensationalistic, one-sided reports on 60 Minutes. Really, what do a bunch of schoolkids know about what the flag should look like? And what is all this nonsense about the flag being somehow outdated because Australia is no longer a British colony? Culture does not have an expiry date and the flag is part of our culture! The Australian flag is a much-loved symbol of our country which may not have been universally so in earlier times but it is now, and will stay that way.

[freedomandpeacesos]

@plusplusplusplusp Whats the chances of a red flag one day? (:o

[flackz16]

Funny how that republican calls it England's flag, does he not realise the union jack is the UK's flag?

You know your on the wrong side when Pauline Hanson is on your side...

[AFFTL]

I'm not a big Pauline Hanson flag but ''Its not so much the flag its what it repersents'' is true. And at the moment a part of that flag is repersenting the United Kingdom not Australia.

[sully1394]

@freedomandpeacesos Im not sure if your reinforceing my argument or discrediting it. However I did ask my aboriginal friend what he thought of the Australian flag and he said this " The Southern Cross represents my home. The blue represents what surrounds my home, and the union jack reprsents another people and their home'.

[plusplusplusplusp]

@freedomandpeacesos

I did not try to sidestep the Indigenous issue, nor did I forget it. What the settlers did to the Aboriginal people was wrong and they deserve sympathy and recognition. (I've got to say, though, that an Australian flag with the Aboriginal flag in the corner doesn't look good and the Aboriginal flag's designer disapproves).

[freedomandpeacesos]

@sully1394 I noticed you made reference to the Aboriginals ("But what about the people that were here 70 thousand years before the colinisation") in your response to plusplusplusplusp. If you did not notice, plusplusplusplusp,did not give a response to this question.You raised a legitimate question that is probably more important to debate than anything else.The Aboriginals, what about the Aboriginals, how do they feel about this, has either of you spoken to any of them and asked that question?

[freedomandpeacesos]

@plusplusplusplusp Did you conveniently sidestep the issue of the Aboriginal people or did you forget?

[sully1394]

@plusplusplusplusp

That is true but in summation I believe the union jack on the Australian flag will go the why as did the old national anthyem 'God save the Queen'. It will become a distant memory.

[plusplusplusplusp]

@sully1394

Okay, it seems about the flag we can agree to disagree. You don't like the union jack, and I don't mind it. It's true that the British originally settled the continent as a penal outpost, but once free settlers came, the convict dumpings trickled and economic activity picked up it became a 'true' colony and is now a modern, developed country we're lucky to live in.

[sully1394]

@plusplusplusplusp

No dought the flag looks nice with its balance of colours, personally I like the flag itself, but it is that symbol in the top left hand corner that I don't like and for what it stands for. When you say large scale settlement and development you almost sound as if the British were exited in finding this beautiful land to the south that they could develop and settle, but the fact is they were exited in finding a place to dump there convicts.

[plusplusplusplusp]

@sully1394

You make a valid point in saying the jack only represents part of Australia's heritage, but the British were the ones who started the large-scale settlement and development of the continent. To tell you the truth, I think the union jack (even if it is not representitive of all the peoples that inhabit the country) looks good on the flag. The current flag, with its nice colour balance, is well-liked by Australians today regardless of background. It works.