I know that the present flag is very much an accident of ur imperial past. But could we please remember that we adopted the blue ensign almost a decade before the Australians did theirs. Perhaps we could also cast off the cloak of colonial cringe and look at it in a different light... As much as the Union Jack represents our links to Great Britain it also acknowledges the English Welsh and Scots emigrants who settled this land. The clue is the vast pacific that surrounds us and finally the Southern Cross the stars that brought the Polynesians here.