A National Flag For Australia

Australians are being confronted with views from politicians, flag organisations, journalists and others about either changing or retaining the Commonwealth Flag as the national symbol of Australia.

The idea of a new flag is being raised in conjunction with the question of Australia becoming a republic in the year 2000, wider arguments, primarily for a liberal type republic also being presented in the media.

Symbolism, as seen from the ancient Runic alphabet of European peoples, has an extensive history and can be an emotive subject. This reflects the inherent desire of citizens for a symbol for which to attach their personal feelings of belonging, and/or as an expression of their heritage and identity.

The basis for such a symbol in the modern world is the National State, which fosters the cultural heritage and identity, and the "historical destiny" of its people. Other influences are merely superficial to national consciousness.

The question of the National Flag for Australia centres therefore on the bona fide, and an understanding, of the political and social order of the Commonwealth State, in advancing the common good of the Australian people since Federation in 1901.

In this respect, in contrast to the great expectations for a new nation at the turn of the century, a precarious position now faces our Australian civilisation. The policies that have brought this situation about involve subservience to international financiers; the sale of our national wealth to foreigners; catastrophic unemployment and debt; mass alien immigration destroying our identity; anti- Australian multiculturalism and unremitting exposure to American trash influences undermining our own culture. As well, political and economic corruption, and environmental degradation is now unprecedented.

This is the legacy of the 1990's from the system that brought into being the Australian Commonwealth Flag.

So what does an examination of its origins reveal?

Its immediate derivation was from a competition established by the Commonwealth Government on 29th April 1901, which accepted designs from another competition undertaken by the Australasian Review of Reviews Journal. All were submitted to a panel for judgement.

The criteria for entry included that the flag "be based on the British ensigns, signalling to the beholder that it is an Imperial Union Ensign of the British Empire", distinctiveness, utility and cost of manufacture.

To encourage a design with the British Union flag, particularly in the dominant heraldic position, confirms the bogus nature of the competition and its colonial status.

On the 3rd September 1901, Prime Minister Edmund Barton announced five winning entries each with a similar design, from the display at the Melbourne Exhibition building.

The adjudged design was subsequently forwarded to the British Colonial Office in London for assent, as recorded in Hansard in November 1901 in an announcement by the Prime Minister.

He also revealed that another flag design, not part of any competition but the former NSW Ensign, a white banner with blue cross with the British Union flag in the corner, used as the Australian Federation flag during the 1880's and 1890's had been forwarded to England.

A further Hansard report of the Prime Minister replying to a question in late 1902 reveals that assent had still not been received from the Colonial Office.

The Commonwealth Government Gazette of 20th February 1903 recorded that King Edward VII had approved of the competition design as the Flag of Australia.

The red ensign form of the chosen design was for merchant shipping and citizens use, and the blue ensign form reserved for Government usage. At this time the federation star numbered six points.

In December 1908 the British Government was asked to agree that the federation star be altered to seven points to represent all states and territories of the Commonwealth, the last change in this flag. Admiralty approval was not received until as gazetted by the Government on 22nd May 1909.

Neither the design nor any of the changes were ever put to the Australian people for acceptance through a plebiscite, and in fact the flying of the red ensign flag of the people was not encouraged until the 1940's when Australia was in dire peril from the Japanese hordes. Prime Minister Menzies, and later Chifley, promoted the symbol in an effort to inspire national unity and spirit.

Indeed, earlier Prime Minister John Watson had suggested that the design be scrapped and a new flag, still with the British Union flag, be designed to take its place.

In 1951 the Commonwealth government recommended that King George VI approve the blue ensign as a National Flag and subsequently, in preparation for the first tour of a reigning English Monarch, the Flag Acts of 1953 in the Australian Parliament proclaimed the "British Blue Ensign" as the National Flag of Australia, awaiting Royal Assent.

In the parliamentary debate, member Percy Joske acclaimed, "in the most important part of the flag, the part nearest the hoist, appears the Union Jack, a flag that thrills the heart of every Englishman".

Queen Elizabeth 11 gave "Royal Assent" to this Act of Parliament on her visit in 1954 "emphasising" the status of the National Flag.

Good enough for Australia?

As National Republicans advancing our own culture and heritage we think not. National Republicans state that an imperial ensign can never be the banner of an independent nation. Even the empire loyalist instigators of the Commonwealth Flag never intended for it to be other than that of a British possession. It is a flag that does not either encourage nor reflect the ethos of the Australian people.

National Republicans look deeper into our own national consciousness, rejecting the notion of a British heritage of Australia. We have taken the English language, many British settlers, aspects of the common law and numerous customs, all of which have well advanced the cause of our southern nation, but we are not transported Britons. We are Australians.

The claim of a British heritage of Australia by imperial type conservatives with their "twisting" of Australian patriotism, is a misnomer to continue deterring genuine Australian fervour amongst our people. It reflects their cultural cringe in promoting the English Queen as our Head of State. The same claim is also a ruse of multiculturalists, fake republicans, and media sycophants to deny our existing Australian heritage and identity.

Our own heritage has been spawned from the pioneers and settlers from ALL the countries of Europe whose influences, values and cultures were exposed and fused together on contact with our so different environment, to produce the Native Australian. A culture that bloomed from the 1880's to the early part of this century, but now sadly suffocating.

We do not lack a national identity. We are historically and culturally a new European, but particularly Australian people. To deny this is to deny Australia.

The bourgeoisie view that the Commonwealth Flag "indicates our origin", or that the symbol adopted by the Aboriginal people "would be nice" as the National Flag, suffers the same cringe and exposes an abject lack of Australian consciousness.

For Nationalists there is only one flag, AUSTRALIA'S MOST SACRED SYMBOL, THE FLAG OF EUREKA, flown at Bakery Hill on 3rd December 1854, where men stood together as Australians against injustice. Although the diggers were massacred by the Colonial Authority, their endeavours led to reforms of citizens voting rights, tax reform, land opportunities, and parliamentary representation, -- all paid for in BLOOD and enshrined in OUR national soul. This is our great heritage -- we need no one else's.





The Flag of Eureka is ingrained in our Australian spirit, and for the pursuit of political, economic and cultural independence. It is the only flag that can unite indigenous Australians in the water-shed that we must now face to decide the survival of our European civilisation in the face of the "Asian future" planned by our traitor class. It is our true flag.

Internationalists, or Irish type ethnics who have no roots in Australian soil, have no claim to our banner. Any such attempt is nothing but deceit -- this is the flag of our Australian motherland, of free working citizens, of real republicans, of Australian Nationalists.

National Republicans will retain the Commonwealth flag for internal usage on war memorials, veterans establishments and in the traditions of the armed services.

But to the proponents of meaningless green and gold, or Ausflag type rags, we suggest they are an total waste of time and effort, and will always lack that required to stir the hearts of Australians. Such pretty colours and patterns may cause some fools to develop a lump in the throat, but in reality this shallow patriotism is akin to choking on a Big Mac and Coke.

National Republicans vouch that any such rags raised by liberals, alien ethnics, or fake republicans will be torn down and replaced with "the safeguard of Australian Nationality".

We call on all real Australians to raise "the symbol of Australian liberty and unity" and to join the new forces of Australianism in the struggle for:-

= THE NATIONAL REPUBLIC OF AUSTRALIA = to be created in a peaceful democratic revolution by the Australian people.

Declared 3rd December 1991, 137th Anniversary of the Eureka stockade.


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