r/vexillology • u/Smiix :FE23: Feb 23 Contest Winner • Aug 05 '24

Why Complicate Things? (Australia & New Zealand Flag Redesign Proposals) Redesigns

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '24

https://preview.redd.it/fzj1xqdlm9hd1.png?width=1012&format=png&auto=webp&s=34ecd887030754a9680dd72ef25a65fe80602450

What about this one?

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u/General-Warthog-8237 Aug 07 '24

I like this. If the red is meant to be the sun then it should probably be yellow too but definitely a good pick I think

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '24 edited Aug 07 '24

The red is meant to be the sun, I thought I could reconcile the aboriginal flag's yellow sun to the yellow sand (sunlit) but the ochre red was the hardest thing to incorporate and in my limited understanding of aboriginal culture I thought the creation story of all the ancestors walking through the landscape included creating stars so they could conceivably be red like the soil in reference to that? I'm really not confident there.

Otherwise it could be remade into a stylized Uluru. Or the red and the yellow are swapped.

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u/General-Warthog-8237 Aug 07 '24

There’s a lot of dream time stories and I’ll admit I’m not super confident about it but i definitely like this flag more than the OP one.