The current flag: the Blue Ensign, comes from the the foundation of the autonomous State of Australia, the 'Commonwealth of Australia' , the first design was made in 1901 with six-point star and in red; the Commonwealth Star (seven point) was adopted in 1908.
The Blue Ensign has been made official just since an act of 1953.
So Australia was STILL a colony, autonomous but a dependent territory from Britain.
The real independence (the right to touch the constitution) has been signed just in 1986...
This is not for showing a sign of hatred to Britain. The British people is the friend of the Australian people. But now Australia is independent. This is not forcely to mark a republicanist feeling. The new flag can be and I would say has to be proper whether a constitutional monarchy or a republic.
Let's re-call that a personnal union between two countries , i.e a monarch who has a title overseas in another country doesn't make consider the concerned country 'dependent', 'not independent'.
From 1603 to 1707, Scotland had been independent, eventhough the Stuart dynasty, then William of Orange, and the same monarchs were both kings of England and kings of Scotland.
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