Couldn't have said it better myself. Jim McMillan from Kensington (that's Melbourne Kensington, not London Kensington) writes, "I feel most deeply fifth-generation Australian, while being proud of my Scots forebears. I reject none of the past but ache to embrace a braver future. I am proud
that we Australians have a distinctive national dialect of English and a recognisably distinct national anthem. I am happy we are a nation within that other commonwealth of nations; a parliamentary democracy in the Westminster tradition. However, I chafe under a flag with a Union Jack on it (that has served us well but is a mere colonial ensign) and I chafe under a head of state who is an ageing Anglo-German celebrity aristocrat and not one of our own." Hear, hear!
