Renewed Campaign for New Flag

Five well-known Australian women are among a group of 12 Australians of the Year calling for a new flag.  They ask the Parliament to commence the process to design a truly Australian national flag and put it to a popular vote.  The AUSFLAG media release commented: “Our current flag, only formally adopted in 1954, to replace the Union Jack still highlights and promotes the flag of another nation.  It is a transitional symbol….We must boldly take the next step and define ourselves confidently and distinctly before the world.  Our new flag must be unambiguously and inclusively Australian representing all of us equally.  We believe the time has come to embrace a flag worthy of our sovereign, independent, mature egalitarian nation; our own flag”.  The women are: Indigenous leader, Lowitja O’Donoghue; athletes Shane Gould, Evonne Goolagong and Dawn Fraser and musician, Judith Durham (also Patrick McGorry; Mick Dodson; Tim Flannery; Ian Frazer and Gus Nossal).