RAAF Amberley ramp ceremony; caskets draped in the Australian flag I often find myself asking why some people choose to burn our national flag. The Australian National Flag was born at the same moment Australia became a nation. On 1 January 1901, the colonies federated, and among the first acts of the new Commonwealth was the decision to create a flag to represent who we were—and who we hoped to become. More than 32,000 designs were submitted through a public competition. The