Pyro as Bill said:
Is that all you'd do? Remove the Union flag. We demand a kangaroo on there somewhere....and a great white shark.....and a didgeridoo. |
Canada doing so was probably a mistake and, along the same lines, it would probably be a mistake for Austraila since it has the net effect of erasing a tremendous part of their history and heritage--take away Great Britain much earlier on, and who knows what AUS would have ended up looking like, but almost certainly nothing akin to its present development.
Other than that, I think it's a fine idea that Australia 'go out on its own' even if it is only sympbilic. As the OP stated, Australia has certainly proven itself to be a fine and upstanding nation and most certainly on the way up, so if they want to move out from under the 'shadow' of what's left of Great Britain, I say huzzah!
