True blue flag is the best one for Australia How can adoption of the divisive, ugly, confected and confronting Aboriginal flag be any different from our long- standing partial adoption of the flag of the world's first modern democracy and guiding light for all successful capitalist parliamentary monarchies/democracies worldwide, Graeme Barrow (Letters,   November 3)? 
The natural Australian colour is blue, not red or black or yellow, colours already taken and used to ill-effect by both Imperial and Nazi Germany.
Perhaps a compromise with the beautiful and symbolic Union Jack in place of the pointless round yellow blob in the centre? Anything that defends Australia from any association with all those murderous and failed republics as recommended by Graeme Barrow would be a small mercy. Even the original designer of the "Aboriginal flag", Harold Thomas, has asked that it not be used divisively, as Graeme Barrow urges, as a potential new Australian flag. Why are his legitimate protests being ignored? I'm sure many people of Aboriginal descent would agree, if they were ever asked. Barrow is the type that needs to grow up.
Christopher Smith, Braddon Graeme Barrow is pushing for a new flag - good luck mate, millions of Australians love the current flag which shows the Southern Cross, plus also refers to our relationship with Great Britain, which has given us a legal and social environment that people are prepared to drown at sea to get here. I love our flag, and don't feel disadvantaged or psychologically affected at all. Despite the Aborigines' 50,000-plus years' history here, "their flag" is a recent invention, certainly not universally accepted as an appropriate Australian flag. I have no problems with both flags being shown.
John Burns, Hall