{"id":9393,"date":"2012-01-22T22:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2012-01-22T22:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T03:56:19","slug":"a-new-australian-flag-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/a-new-australian-flag-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Australian flag&#8230; (finally)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9394\" title=\"Web flag image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Web-flag-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9395\" title=\"web flag blue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/web-flag-blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9398\" title=\"Australian_flag_stamps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Australian_flag_stamps1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Melbourne, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My good friend Russell Kennedy (Icograda President from 2009-2011 and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology) has launched a website to help promote a proposal for a new Australian flag. This comprehensive study features an integrated system of ensigns which represent unity through design and diversity through colour. The proposal is that the <em>Advance Australia National Flag<\/em> replace the current Australian flag by the year 2020.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><em>&#8220;Many people now acknowledge that he current Australian flag is not a unique design and agree that it is not suitable as a national flag\u2014it is actually a colonial flag\/ensign. To feature the flag of another country on our flag is perceived as subservient and illogical. And to claim that the Union Jack on the Australian Flag symbolises the historical origin of our people is highly disrespectful to Indigenous Australians. The Advance Australia National Flag both acknowledges and proudly celebrates indigenous Australia as the world&#8217;s oldest, continuous living culture.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Learn lots more about this interesting proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/newaustralianflag.squarespace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">here<\/span><\/a>. Watch a brief video clip <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/r7THP8_e2lo\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">here<\/span><\/a> that shows how the kangaroo on this proposed flag design literally leaps in the wind\u2026 beautiful!<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia My good friend Russell Kennedy (Icograda President from 2009-2011 and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology) has launched a website to help promote a proposal for a new Australian flag. This comprehensive study features an integrated system of ensigns which represent unity through design and diversity through colour. The proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}