As it customary around Australia Day, Ausflag launches another new flag design, this time based on the Southern Cross and the national sporting colours of green and gold. Five of the sixteen directors of Ausflag are women – Anna Booth, Lesley Brydon, Janet Holmes a Court, Anne Keating and Lowitja O’Donoghue. While this particular version lacks star power or the wow factor (WfaAR prefers a design based on the golden wattle and we’d like to see what female designers can do with that), a new flag is essential to getting the general public interested in the Republic so we welcome all proposals and ideas on this subject.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
