A New Beginning

The Australian Renaissance has begun.

Today is National Flag Day.

On Sunday’s March for Australia, cities and towns across Australia saw a sight not seen for 50 years – a sea of Commonwealth Blue Ensigns.

The flag we all know today was adopted as the national flag in the early 1950s. An earlier version of it was the winning design in a popular competition in 1901. That flag’s stars have been modified to what we have today.

Next year will be the 125th anniversary of the Blue Ensign. As the dust settles after the historic Marches, what does the future hold, now that the past will never be the same again?

At the Brisbane march, the call went out to celebrate Federation Day on the 1st of January. It was music to my ears, having done so like a lone wolf at home for the past few years. The call also went out to celebrate Australia for three weeks until Australia Day, January 26th.

What Next?

Raise the Flag is a campaign initiated by March for Australia to make the flag more visible, wherever and whenever. Put it up on your balcony. On your front lawn or on your car. Operation Raise the Colours in England has inspired Australians who watch as Britain is besieged by an uncontrolled wave of illegal opportunists arriving by small boats across the Channel, aided and abetted by a complicit, traitorous government.

The challenge ahead is to harness the energy of the marches and coordinate it into a force that can recapture our parliament. We had better do so with a sense of purpose, because back-room deals – announced in Mumbai, not Australia – are being made by our Prime Minister with Indian businessmen to import Indian workers to build a million homes – mostly for Indians. This is what the Labor Party calls ‘nation-building’ – for foreigners.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan recently stated, ‘We are a nation of foreigners’, echoing Justin Trudeau’s description of Canada as a ‘post-national state’. She is likely to be relegated to the same dustbin of history as Trudeau.

An Era of Change

When the Commonwealth was founded, it was an era in which the public was widely and regularly consulted on matters that affected them. The Constitution was the product of multiple referendums. The flag was chosen via a popular competition. Several of our first plebiscites were held early in the life of the federation.

How things have changed. Not since 1977 has there been a plebiscite.  That one was on the national anthem. It has become a national sport to deceive the voting public and implement under-handed policies from immigration rates to rewording the national anthem.

I’m not sure that Australians have any appetite for toying with changes to our flag, but if there is, here is the product of 40 years of research:

The stylized Southern Cross is unique to Australia among the many countries of the Southern Hemisphere who have it in their flags. Its origins in Australian history are an interesting blend of loyalty to the Commonwealth and republicanism.

Were there a desire to incorporate an element of the Aboriginal Flag – the red Earth – we might get this:

Aboriginal tribes covered the whole continent and their culture is inextricable from the red land. It is, therefore, appropriately associated with the star that represents the whole country – Commonwealth Star. However, it looks a bit communist. Any socialists here? (Curiosity killed the cat.) Hang on, if the Kiwis have red stars all over their flag, maybe it’s not all bad? However, I can’t find any explanation as to why they’re red other than that it it used in the Union Jack (StudyCountry).

What do you think? Comment below.