aspects of our culture – its dependence on England, its history of racism, sexism and homophobia, and its refusal to acknowledge the original owners of our land, the Indigenous Australians. For these reasons, it must be altered without delay.
Firstly, by anchoring itself with the divisive British symbol of the Union Jack, the current Australian flag does not accurately represent Australia as an independent nation. Very few of us have even travelled to Britain and fewer still believe it is our mother…
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