u/Jappa_dev

I designed a flag for a socialist/communist australia. I tried to not just haphazardly throw communist symbolism and Australian symbolism together and call it a day. Instead I tried to combine the Australian symbolism and the communist symbolism.

Like the red on the bottom, which obviously represents communism itself, and more specifically the blood of the freedom fighters who will sacrifice themselves for the revolution. But, with the black semi circle and the golden circle with the hammer and sickle inside it, it makes it look like there’s an aboriginal flag inside this flag. And the red on the aboriginal flag symbolises the red soil of Australia. And, correct me if I'm wrong bc im not aboriginal, but from my understanding in the religions of most aboriginal nations, the reason the earth is so important to them is because they believe when you die, your soul becomes part of the ground. So according to aboriginal belief, the souls of those revolutionaries who sacrificed themselves would have entered the earth. So the symbolism of red on most communist flags and the symbolism of red on the aboriginal flag is combined to reinforce each other.

The black semicircle in the centre still represents the black skin of the aboriginal people like it does on the original aboriginal flag. The fact that it's in the centre could even represent how the aboriginal people were the first people of Australia. Making them the “heart” or “core” of Australia who took care of the land communally long before the British came.

The gold circle with the hammer and sickle inside represents the sun. on most flags, including the aboriginal flag, the sun represents energy and life. So the sun having a hammer and sickle, which represents the working class and farmers, fits because much like how the sun puts energy into the ecosystem to keep it going, the work that the working class does keeps society in motion. So both the sun and the working class put energy and motion into an otherwise inert system.

The southern cross and the wattle branches mainly just represent Australia itself, but the southern cross has a bit of a double meaning. It's made up of five pointed stars, which on communist flags represent the ideal future of communism on all five inhabited continents, and the southern cross used to guide sailors to Australia. So put together, the southern cross on this flag represents how Australia having a socialist revolution could be a guiding star for other countries to have their own revolutions. Also the small star on the southern cross ended up being nestled in the hammer and sickle, which I think looks pretty nice.

The colour scheme is kinda just a mix of the communist colours of red and gold, and the Australian Olympic colours of green and gold, but each of those colours has their own symbolism as well. I already talked about what the red and black represent. But as for the other two, the green represents how under socialism, Australia will be able to fully switch to renewable energy once the government is no longer controlled by large fossil fuel companies. And the gold, like it does on most communist flags, represents prosperity under socialism. And together, the green and gold still represent the wattle tree like they do in the australian olympic colours. But they also represent how making Australia more environmentally friendly will protect native flora and fauna, including wattle trees. And how the natural world will prosper under socialism just as much as the people will.

All together, the fact it no longer has the union jack and the very “western liberal capitalist democracy” coded red white and blue colour scheme represents how Australia will stop larping as a western county, break its ties with America, and fully embrace being a part of the east. Bc lets face it, if we switch to socialism, america is probably gonna become enemies with us. So we probably have to strengthen our ties with eastern communist countries like China to defend ourselves (not that I support China, I'm not some authoritarian tankie. I just think China is the lesser of two evils compared to fascist America)

The flag might be a *little* bit overdesigned, but I like it. Tell me what you guys think. Also let me know if I got anything wrong about flag symbolism or aboriginal culture. Or if any of it is racist towards aboriginal people in any way.