"If it's not broken, don't fix it": Majority of Australians favour current flag
The majority of Australians want to keep the current design of the national flag, according to a survey by Roy Morgan.
The survey asked 1312 Australians whether they thought Australia should have a new design for the national flag, and a majority (61 per cent) said they wanted to keep the current flag featuring the Union Jack, Southern Cross and Commonwealth Star.
While many Australians believe that, "If it's not broken don't fix it" according to the survey, the majority support for the current national flag has gone down 5 per cent since 2010.
One of the other reasons why respondents backed the current national flag was because of the historical importance and heritage of the flag.
"Our ANZACS fought and died under this flag," one respondent to the survey said.
Other reasons why people wanted to keep the flag the same include scepticism about alternative flags and concerns about costs of changing the designs.
For those who wanted to change the flag, Roy Morgan said there was strong support for removing the Union Jack from the flag because of its colonial symbolism.
"Colonial ties to the UK are an embarrassment," one respondent said.
"We are no longer part of the empire," another wrote.
Australians were also asked if they thought Australia should keep the Monarchy, with 57 per cent saying we should keep it, three per cent less than in 2022.
When asked if we should become a republic, 43 per cent agreed, up three per cent since 2022.
"Australians are even more attached to the National Flag than the Constitutional Monarchy," Roy Morgan Chief Executive Michele Levine said.
"The results of this Roy Morgan SMS Poll on attitudes towards the current Australian National Flag and whether it should be re-designed show a clear split along political lines with the Coalition on one side, the Greens on the other side, and ALP supporters straddling the centre line with large segments advocating for a change and almost as many wanting to retain the current design," she added.
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