FitzSimons chairs The Australian Republican movement ... It keeps the right hand side of the current flag; the Southern Cross stars on a blue background. However Blaxland includes a seven pointed ...

Prominent Australian writer Peter FitzSimons is one ... which has a green and gold boomerang through the centre. Another Southern Cross flag, which is a version of the Aboriginal flag as a rising ...

But Australia's larger cities ... the patron saint of England. Melbourne's flag features the cross with a royal crown. Then, in four quadrants are four elements of Melbourne's 19th century ...

A majority of 61 per cent said they wanted to keep our current flag, featuring the Union Jack, Southern Cross, and ...

EDWARD R Cattoni believes he has designed the perfect Australian flag - which he says is a flag ... representing the Southern Cross to signify that we are geographically located in the southern ...

The foreign minister noted the Australian flag contained the Southern Cross which was "very Australian". She concluded Australia would keep the current flag and Queen "for the time being most ...

The first-known design was the National Colonial Flag of Australia, flown about 1824. It featured the Union Jack on white with the red cross of St George and white stars of the Southern Cross.

“The Australian flag has the Southern Cross on it, and the Southern Cross story in many Aboriginal cultures is significant and it’s an important symbol. In Aboriginal astronomy it is a very sa ...

If they actually knew something about the Australian flag, they’d understand that Aboriginal people are represented through the Southern Cross. It’s ignorance on behalf of the council.