The Australian National Flag remains the: ... blue ensign. The section 3 additions that Howard put in pretty much assure that. It cant be called anything but a national flag. I also tried to write it so that the federal government has to use the blue ensign too.
With the Union Jack, they can fly it now however they want. With Section 5, I would like if a convention popped up where the Governor-General once receiving a petition put it to a plebiscite, where a flag would be made a flag of Australia only if there was a majority returned from it.
The problem with the government having a monopoly on defining what is a national flag, and whether a plebiscite will be held on one, means that people are alienated from \"their\" national symbolism anyway. This adds pluralism to the process, and the ability of a nation\'s people to represent itself.
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