There still needs to be a unique National Flag: Cam,
I think there still needs to be a flag that is recognised as being the National Flag.
While you deleted section 8 with the use of the Union Jack as an Australian Flag in your proposed amendment of the Flags Act 1953, what is there to prevent a bunch of people from getting together to have the Union Jack petitioned as an Australian Flag, with the same status as any other, in the method you proposed in the earlier section? What would stop people putting up flags of foreign nations, such as the United States, as new flags.
The National Flag is an international convention and we all understand the power of a national symbol such as the flag. People can fly any flag they like (nearly - as long as it doesn\'t offend the neighbours) but the Flags Act sets out the unique and special flags that identify Australia as a nation. I don\'t think this special national status for flags should be changed willy-nilly.
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I think there still needs to be a flag that is recognised as being the National Flag.
While you deleted section 8 with the use of the Union Jack as an Australian Flag in your proposed amendment of the Flags Act 1953, what is there to prevent a bunch of people from getting together to have the Union Jack petitioned as an Australian Flag, with the same status as any other, in the method you proposed in the earlier section? What would stop people putting up flags of foreign nations, such as the United States, as new flags.
The National Flag is an international convention and we all understand the power of a national symbol such as the flag. People can fly any flag they like (nearly - as long as it doesn\'t offend the neighbours) but the Flags Act sets out the unique and special flags that identify Australia as a nation. I don\'t think this special national status for flags should be changed willy-nilly.