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The national flag of Australia is based on the British Blue Ensign —a blue field with the Union Jack in the upper hoist quarter—augmented with a large white seven-pointed star (the Commonwealth Star) and a representation of the Southern Cross constellation, made up of five white stars (one small five-pointed star and four, larger, seven ...
Flag Date Use Description 1901–1903 Original 1901 Federal Flag Design Competition winner [1]: A Blue Ensign defaced with the six-point Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter and the five stars of the Southern Cross in the fly half (each star had a varying number of points: 9, 8, 7, 6 and 5—with Alpha Crucis being larger than Beta and Gamma and with Delta being smaller than Beta and ...
3 September 1901. [ 1 ] National coat of arms. Coat of arms of Australia. Commonwealth Coat of Arms. 19 September 1912. [ 2 ] Governor general's standard. Flag of the governor-general of Australia.
Australia is the driest inhabited continent; its annual rainfall averaged over continental area is less than 500 mm.[178]The population densityis 3.4 inhabitants per square kilometre, although the large majority of the population lives along the temperate south-eastern coastline.
Poster released by Ausflag prior to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, displaying some of the many other flags containing the Union Jack in the canton. The Australian flag debate is a question over whether the Australian flag should be changed, particularly to remove the Union Jack from the canton, but also to possibly introduce a completely new design without the Southern Cross.
The Australian Aboriginal flag is an official flag of Australia that represents Aboriginal Australians. It was granted official status in 1995 under the Flags Act 1953, together with the Torres Strait Islander flag, in order to advance reconciliation and in recognition of the importance and acceptance of the flag by the Australian community. [ 1 ]
Painting of Golden Wattle, by Ellis Rowan, a possible inspiration for the choice of colours. The national colours of Australia are green and gold. [1] They were formally adopted by the governor-general of Australia, Sir Ninian Stephen, on 19 April 1984 in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette; on the advice from Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
There is a full colour version and nine heraldically correct official versions exist for single-colour reproduction. The coat of arms was the basis of Queen Elizabeth's Personal Australian Flag, [18] and since 1973 a slightly modified version has formed the basis of the Great Seal of Australia. [19]