He says he can't draw, so can't show us a picture of a new Australian flag he has in mind, but he has a cracker of a suggestion:
Red at the bottom, blue at the top, in between three wavy bands of dot-painting-style colour; from bottom up green, gold, black and white mixed, with a Southern Cross in the hoist position. The red is the land, the blue the sky or the sea; the wavy lines are the coast or the skyline or the rainbow serpent, as a representative of all the creator spirits we honour. The green and gold is the bush in spring, the black and white the people. Putting the Southern Cross in the hoist position means we honour our democracy above all. The colours incorporate the red, black and yellow of the Aboriginal flag, the blue, white, green and black of the Torres Strait Islander flag, the red, white and blue of Britain, the green of Ireland, the red and gold of China and enough other combinations to represent many migrant communities.Of course Stuart points out
This all said, the flag also has to work as a graphic design.
Mmmm, sounds a bit like a doona cover I once had...
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