Upsurge of national pride among ordinary Australians

Demand for Australian Flags and symbols have risen dramatically in the wake up the Cronulla “riots”. Tattooists and retailers have fielded a huge demand for symbolic paraphernalia as the line between patriotism and nationalism becomes blurred. Union Jacks and Southern Crosses are being permanently recorded on the bodies of young Australians as tattoos. This nascent nationalism is also reflected in the rise in the sale of Australian flags and a growing tendency to tote them in public.

Nelson Iturrieta, a tattooist a Liverpool’s Dutchy and Son Tattoo Studio, says he is inking between 30 and 40 Southern Crosses a week. “It’s really just become really popular, all that national pride stuff, particularly with the younger guys,” he says. “The Southern Cross is one of the most popular tattoos at the moment. “Were also getting people asking to get the words `Aussie Pride’ tattooed on them, usually next to a Southern Cross.”

It’s the same story at Panania, where Chuck Sekulla, from the Body Art Tattoo and Body Piercing studio, says the flag is poplar with clients. “We do the flag a fair bit, and even the Eureka Stockade flag, but none of them are as popular as the Southern Cross,” he says. “There’s a real national pride thing going on.”

Bulk flag supplier Australiana Flags has experienced a boom in business recently. “I’ve never seen so many flags on Australia Day-or any other day, for that matter,” managing director John Vaughen says.

Sociology Professor John Carroll, of Latrobe University, says Australia’s new found nationalism stems from terrorism. “There’s a growing sense of the value of our (Western) civilisation and what it stands for, and at the same time a decline in the language of multiculturalism,” he says.

Source. (This article is no longer online at its original source but articles in the Sydney “Telegraph” and “Sunday Telegraph” are often taken down after only a short time)

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Posted by Lurker on February 10, 2006, 10:29 AM | #

Australians - I salute you!

Posted by Andrew on February 10, 2006, 03:34 PM | #

Andrew Fraser is back to work on Monday if some have not heard.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on February 11, 2006, 12:26 AM | #

AUSSI,AUSSI,AUSSI!!!! Go fellows-we need someone to get the ball in play! If you get carded,your mates will take up the slack. God be with you!

Posted by Simon on February 14, 2006, 01:16 AM | #

National Fascist Day, wave the flag and celebrate living in a fascist state.
Oscar Wilde once said that “Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious”.
AUSTRALIA has the world’s most unpopular national flag. Australia tops the world with half the population expressing “no confidence” in the flag design.
Support for the Australian flag peaked in the early 1960s at about 70 per cent. Since then, support has declined steadily at an average of one half of one percentage point each year.
When a monopoly product with more than 100 years of free advertising and pump-priming by government still does not have resounding popular support there is only one possible conclusion - the product is faulty.
The response by supporters of the present design has been to embark on a campaign of indoctrination. They erect more flagpoles and insist on more schoolyard saluting.
But the field evidence is that the more some fly the Australian flag, the less popular it becomes with everyone else. It is ridiculous to believe that if 100 years of promotion has not been sufficient then 110 years might do the trick.
How can we and more importantly why should we have pride in a flag which fails to represent all it’s citizens?
Getting rid of the Union Jack would be a good start.

Posted by Al Ross on February 14, 2006, 01:39 AM | #

Before we all roar with laughter at the puerile vapourings of this Simon personage, we should spare a thought for the doubtless hard-pressed and overworked members of Australia’s psychiatry profession, several of which are surely well-acquainted with his ‘case’.

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