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Ausflag unveils new Aussie flag to be used at sporting events
news.com.au ^
| 24th January 2013
| Patrick Lion
Posted on 01/24/2013 4:16:33 AM PST by naturalman1975
Edited on 01/24/2013 6:22:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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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.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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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
To: naturalman1975
guess Red dye is hard to come by.....since China is putting a wedge between the US and Australia.
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posted on
01/24/2013 4:19:56 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: naturalman1975
Geez, that green and gold monstrosity is ugly.
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posted on
01/24/2013 4:56:10 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
To: naturalman1975
I never knew Australia was a former British colony . . . in Africa.
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posted on
01/24/2013 5:14:42 AM PST
by
Oratam
To: Little Ray
All right! That’s enough about the Packers-49ers game!
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posted on
01/24/2013 5:43:01 AM PST
by
gnickgnack2
(QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
To: Little Ray
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.
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posted on
01/24/2013 5:53:40 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: naturalman1975
“ausflag” - sounds like it’s straight out of the newspeak dictionary.
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posted on
01/24/2013 6:18:01 AM PST
by
jtal
(Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
To: naturalman1975
The Canucks are having a minor flag kerfuffle too. A botanist claims the Maple Leaf is from a non-native invasive variety of maple.
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posted on
01/24/2013 6:31:30 AM PST
by
DManA
To: jtal
ausflag - sounds like its straight out of the newspeak dictionary Isn't that the next town past ausfahrt?
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posted on
01/24/2013 6:57:18 AM PST
by
Gil4
(Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
To: DManA
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.
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posted on
01/24/2013 6:57:41 AM PST
by
stormer
To: DManA
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.
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posted on
01/24/2013 6:58:33 AM PST
by
stormer
To: Little Ray
Green and gold are the color of Australian national sports uniforms.
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posted on
01/24/2013 7:05:41 AM PST
by
stormer
To: Gil4
Big town - heck of a lot of exits for it on the Autobahn.
To: Doogle
Not exactly a stirring flag I don’t think I will be dying for that one!
Mel
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posted on
01/24/2013 7:26:27 AM PST
by
melsec
(Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
To: stormer
Opps, you are correct sir. Now did I hear flag from a garbled source or did the garbling happen in my head?
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posted on
01/24/2013 7:41:44 AM PST
by
DManA
To: naturalman1975
Bloody foreigners!
Fun fact: Google: Harold Scruby.
The #3 hit is the wikipedia page for: wanker.
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posted on
01/24/2013 8:20:29 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
To: naturalman1975
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.
To: SoothingDave
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.
To: ArrogantBustard
How would you feel if the US flag included the flag of our former colonial masters?
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posted on
01/24/2013 9:04:01 AM PST
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
If we still recognized HM Elizabeth II as our sovereign, it would make sense.
We don't, so it doesn't.
YMMV.
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posted on
01/24/2013 9:13:29 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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