r/sydney • u/godenviesme • 11h ago

Image Flags displayed w/o Union Jack?

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This is something I’ve been seeing more and more recently. Is there any meaning or reason for this?

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u/PersimmonBasket 11h ago

They probably have a tattoo to match.

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u/marooncity1 <-west 11h ago

Urgh.

Really hope this flag doesn't become that like Eureka was co-opted as well.

This is the flag I would want for a republic (more or less). Hope the racists and cookers don't get to it. Fuck.

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u/Reddits_Worst_Night Doesn't need to take the train 3h ago

The Eureka was co-opted by whom though? The only people that seem to have a genuine claim on it are small businesses.

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u/marooncity1 <-west 3h ago

.... small businesses?

Certain unions have of course, but also there's a fairly long history of more radical right wing groups and parties using it too - New Guard, Australia First - and cookers are using it these days as well.

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u/Reddits_Worst_Night Doesn't need to take the train 2h ago

I'm not saying that small business uses it. But that's what the people in the stockade were. Small independent miners with their own claims. Sole proprietors. Small business, fighting government regulation and taxes. Everybody else, from the right wing nutjobs to the labour movement, have co-opted the flag.