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The Foreign Desk - Flags: whose is best?
12 January 2019
We wave them at sporting events, we paint them on our faces at national celebrations, we fly them from our tanks when we go to war. To some they are merely a useful way to distinguish between countries; to others they’re…
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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 300: Australia: Waving the flag
26 January 2022
The government of Australia has just purchased the licence to the Australian Aboriginal flag for AU$20m. To mark Australia Day, Andrew Mueller explains why such a transaction was necessary and how the news has been received…
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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 106: Why does Bolivia want the world's biggest flag?
14 March 2018
This past weekend Bolivians displayed a flag that stretched over 200km. Andrew Mueller explains why this has little to do with an attempt to break the world record for the biggest flag and rather more to do with a longst…