Nature

According to some (sic) academics at the (sic) University of Western Sydney, 64% of Australians want a new national flag.

The academics, hoping to get their paper into Nature, sent out a letter poll to which 8,000 individuals responded. Hardly representative of the general (sic) population I would suggest.

As much as I dislike the mini-Union Jack I would note that the most favored (31%) of the options for a new flag was the one at the top right in the image below.

Good enough for a margarine commercial, maybe. Just.

The rest are even worse, except for the Eureka flag which unfortunately has become the mascot of the racist nutters.

My guess is that this country is way too diverse in its peoples for a consensus on a new flag to develop.

From the original Australians through to Afghani asylum seekers, I suspect they are going to have to suck on the rather meaningless Union Jack for quite some time longer.