By Matt Blake PUBLISHED: 14:01 EST, 28 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:02 EST, 28 January 2013 A new flag has been designed in Australia in a bid to 'move on' from the country's colonial past. Military historian Dr John Blaxland, of the Australian National University, came up with the idea because he says the current one does not embrace all aspects of Australian culture. Rather than just a straightforward nod to the country's British heritage, he says he wanted a flag that acknowledge Australia's Aboriginal communities as well as its growing multiculturalism. 'People can identify with various parts of it and see that Australia is actually a multicultural place with a rich history that reaches back for generations,' he told the Daily Telegraph.
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Designed by Dr John Blaxland of the Australian National University
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Contains 250 dots to represent all the Aboriginal and immigrant languages
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There is also a red section in the shape of a boomerang, and a traditional representation in green and yellow of the Southern Cross constellation
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But there is also a white stripe at centre to 'echo' that on the Union Flag
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