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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.
The coat of arms of Australia, officially the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, [ 1 ] is a formal symbol of the Commonwealth of Australia. [ 2 ] It depicts a shield, containing symbols of Australia's six states, and is held up by native Australian animals, the kangaroo and the emu. [ 3 ] The seven-pointed Commonwealth Star surmounting the crest also ...
The uniforms of Australia's national sports teams are usually green and gold. [8] The golden wattle flower, and the colours green and gold, are also featured on the Coat of arms of Australia. According to the Australian government, "green and gold have been popularly embraced as Australia’s national sporting colours" since the late 1800s. [1]
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 ]
Gang-gang cockatoo. Brush-tailed rock-wallaby. For the King, the Law and the People. Blue and gold. Batocara mitchelli '[8] City of Canberra tartan [Note 3] Symbols of Australian Capital Territory [9] Northern Territory. Coat of arms of the Northern Territory.
The name Australia (pronounced / əˈstreɪliə / in Australian English [ 41 ]) is derived from the Latin Terra Australis ('southern land'), a name used for a hypothetical continent in the Southern Hemisphere since ancient times. [ 42 ] Several 16th-century cartographers used the word Australia on maps, but not to identify modern Australia. [ 43 ]