Ausflag unveils new Aussie flag to be used at sporting events

news.com.au ^ | 24th January 2013 | Patrick Lion

[naturalman1975]

A HIGH-powered alliance of top Australians has unveiled a new national sporting flag and plans to use it to gatecrash major sporting events.

Ausflag will push for sporting bodies and fans to embrace the green, gold, blue and white flag - still featuring the Southern Cross - and even want it to be raised as the official flag in Olympic Games medal ceremonies.

[naturalman1975]

Our flag bears the stars that shine at night
In our southern sky so blue
And there's a little old flag in the corner
That is part of our heritage too

It's the English, the Scots, and the Irish
Who were sent to the end of the earth
The rogues and the schemers. The doers and dreamers
Who gave modern Australia birth

And you who are shouting to change it
You don't seem to understand
It's the flag of our laws and our language
Not just the flag of some far away land

Though there's plenty who'll tell if you ask them
How when Europe was plunged into night
How that little old flag in the corner
Was a symbol of freedom and light

It doesn't mean we owe an allegiance
To some forgotten imperial dream
We've got the stars to show where we are going
And the old flag to show where we've been

It's only a old piece of bunting
It's only an old coloured rag
But there thousands who've fought for its honour
And who fell in defence of that flag

[Doogle]

guess Red dye is hard to come by.....since China is putting a wedge between the US and Australia.

[Little Ray]

Geez, that green and gold monstrosity is ugly.

[Oratam]

I never knew Australia was a former British colony . . . in Africa.

[gnickgnack2]

All right! That’s enough about the Packers-49ers game!

[ArrogantBustard]

When I was down there, last year, I found out about this push from (apparently) a few malcontents to change the Australian Flag ... all the proposed new flags are (in my unsolicited Yankee American opinion) butt-ugly.

Now, it's not my country, and they didn't ask my advice, so I'll only say this:

If a bunch of 'progressive' bastards ever come up with a goofball notion to replace THIS Flag:

I'll certainly oppose them.

[jtal]

“ausflag” - sounds like it’s straight out of the newspeak dictionary.

[DManA]

The Canucks are having a minor flag kerfuffle too. A botanist claims the Maple Leaf is from a non-native invasive variety of maple.

[Gil4]

“ausflag” - sounds like it’s straight out of the newspeak dictionary

Isn't that the next town past ausfahrt?

[stormer]

I believe the issue with the maple leaf has to do with currency, not the flag. The leaf is stylized to begin with so it really doesn't matter. It does however allows for a nice seguay; until the 1965, the Canadian flag was a version of this:

As we all know (and as I experienced as a boy living in Canada), a new flag was adopted. Frankly, I hope the Aussies make the change.

[stormer]

I believe the issue with the maple leaf has to do with currency, not the flag. The leaf is stylized to begin with so it really doesn't matter. It does however allows for a nice segue; until the 1965, the Canadian flag was a version of this:

As we all know (and as I experienced as a boy living in Canada), a new flag was adopted. Frankly, I hope the Aussies make the change.

[stormer]

Green and gold are the color of Australian national sports uniforms.

[SoothingDave]

Big town - heck of a lot of exits for it on the Autobahn.

[melsec]

Not exactly a stirring flag I don’t think I will be dying for that one!

Mel

[DManA]

Opps, you are correct sir. Now did I hear flag from a garbled source or did the garbling happen in my head?

[Oztrich Boy]

Bloody foreigners!

Fun fact: Google: Harold Scruby.

The #3 hit is the wikipedia page for: wanker.

[Gay State Conservative]

Not that my opinion means anything but I’m not at all impressed with that new flag.I think that the official national flag is pretty cool and,I’m sure,has great historical (and sentimental) significance to Aussies...just as our flag does to us.

[Gay State Conservative]

Big town - heck of a lot of exits for it on the Autobahn.

And there seem to be many doors at the airport that lead to it as well.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

How would you feel if the US flag included the flag of our former colonial masters?

[ArrogantBustard]

If we still recognized HM Elizabeth II as our sovereign, it would make sense.

We don't, so it doesn't.

YMMV.