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	Flag History - Other Australian Flags - Australian Centenary Flag
		Mr John Vaughan, National Spokesman and President of the NSW Branch of the Australian National Flag Association proposes presenting to the Commonwealth a flag to commemorate the Centenary of the Australian National Flag and the re-enactment of its first flying.
		It is intended that the flag be a replacement for the 1901 flag which has been lost to the nation and commence a new tradition carrying with it the symbolism of the first flag.
		It is proposed that the Australian National Flag Association arrange for the flag to travel to all states and territories to be flown at a place or occasion of significance.
	www.australianflag.org.au /centenaryflag.php (423 words)

	Australian Federation Flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flag's appearance varied greatly depending on where it was made: different manufacturers produced Federation Flags with darker or lighter shades of blue for the cross background; using five-pointed stars instead of eight; or positioning the stars in different places.
		The flag looks similar to the Eureka Flag, which was designed in 1854 and was based on designs such as the Federation flag according to some historians.
		The Australian government received approval to fly the Blue Ensign in 1903, but the Australian Federation Flag was still being flown by Australian citizens as late as the 1920s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Federation_Flag (443 words)

	Flag of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was approved by Australian and British authorities over the next few years, although the exact specifications of the flag were changed several times both intentionally and as a result of confusion.
		The design of the Australian flag is the subject of debate within Australia, with some advocating its redesign in connection with the republican movement.
		Flags in any locality may be flown at half-mast on the death of a notable local citizen or on the day, or part of the day, of their funeral.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_flag (3092 words)

	Aussie-Flag
		Among the better known flags in Australia's early colonial history was the National Colonial flag (1823), the Anti-Transportation League flag (1851), the Murray River flag (1853), the Eureka flag (1854) and the Australian federation flag (1880s-1890s).
		The Flags Act 1953 formally adopted the current design as Australia's "National Flag" and the Act was assented to by Queen Elizabeth II on her first visit to Australia on the 15th April, 1954.
		The Australian flag was usually flown in conjunction with, and often in an inferior position to, the Union Flag of the UK well into the 1960s despite the requirements of the Flags Act 1953.
	www.owenguns.com /Documents/aussie-f.htm (2919 words)

	New South Wales Ensign/Federation Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The AFF was originally designed as the proposed New South Wales (NSW) Ensign in 1831 by Captain John Nicholson, one of the designers of the National Colonial Flag.
		The 'Australian Ensign' ultimately became the symbol of the federation movement, which gained momentum in the 1880s and 1890s, and was used by such groups as the Australian Natives Association and the Australian Federation League.
		The design was revived as a land flag in the late 1880's by political groups supporting federation of the colonies and it was used as an unofficial national flag in parts of Australia until the current flag was adopted in 1903.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/au_nswff.html (1004 words)

	The Australian Flag
		The outer diameter is 3/5 the width of the Union Jack (3/10 the width of the fly) and the inner diameter is 4/9 the outer diameter.
		This is a famous but unofficial Australian flag, that features a white vertical cross on a blue background five whsite, blue-margined, 8-pointed stars superimposed at the end of each arm of the cross and at the intersection of the arms, a stylized Southern Cross.
		It is a strident 3-colour flag composed of a large central yellow circle imposed on a background of a red lower half and a fl upper half; the fl represents the Aboriginal people, the yellow the sun as a life force, the red the earth and the blood of the Aboriginal people.
	www.anbg.gov.au /oz/flag.html (1022 words)

	Schools - Important Facts
		The Australian Flag was first flown at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne on 3rd September 1901, in the presence of the first Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon.
		The centenary of The Flag was commemorated on 3 September 2001.
		As the flag was raised all schools were requested via telegraph to raise their Australian flag at the school assembly being held at the same time.
	www.flagaustnat.asn.au /importantfacts.php (943 words)

	Australian Flag; it's origins & history
		The Flags Act 1953 (Act No. 1 of 1954) was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in December 1953 proclaiming definitively the Australian Blue Ensign as the National Flag and the Australian Red Ensign as the proper colours for merchant ships registered in Australian.
		By a Proclamation under section 5 of the Flags Act 1953 the Governor-General appointed the Royal Australian Air Force Ensign to be the ensign of the Royal Australian Air Force.
		The Australian White Ensign and the Ensign of the RAAF are ensigns (junior flags) to the Australian National Flag not the Union Jack.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/australian_flag.htm (1451 words)

	The Australian Flag
		The outer diameter is 3/5 the width of the Union Jack (3/10 the width of the fly) and the inner diameter is 4/9 the outer diameter.
		This is a famous but unofficial Australian flag, that features a white vertical cross on a blue background five white, blue-margined, 8-pointed stars superimposed at the end of each arm of the cross and at the intersection of the arms, a stylized Southern Cross.
		It is a strident 3-colour flag composed of a large central yellow circle imposed on a background of a red lower half and a fl upper half; the fl represents the Aboriginal people, the yellow the sun as a life force, the red the earth and the blood of the Aboriginal people.
	www.csu.edu.au /australia/flag.html (1009 words)

	Australian Flag
		The Australian Flag was born with the creation of Federation at the dawn of the 20th Century.
		The flag is brought to the half-mast position by first hoisting it to the peak for an instant and then lowering it slowly to the half-mast position.
		Flags are required to be flown at half-mast till noon on ANZAC Day, then raised to the masthead until sunset.
	www.anzacday.org.au /education/tff/flag.html (694 words)

	The Australian National Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the upper hoist or canton of the flag is the Union Flag (sometimes referred to as the Union Jack).
		The Australian National Flag is a national emblem: it should not be subjected to indignity or displayed in a position inferior to any other flag or ensign and takes precedence over all other national flags when flown in Australia.
		The Flag is brought to the half-mast position by first raising it to the top of the mast and then immediately lowering it slowly to the half-mast position.
	users.bigpond.net.au /catacomb/library/bookshelf/aus/flag.html (561 words)

	The Australian Flag Resource Page - Australin Flag - Austalian Flag
		The design australian flags of the Australian flag is the subject of debate within Australia, with some advocating its redesign the australian flag in connection with the republican movement.
		The australian flag tattoo Union Flag is commonly thought to australian state flags reflect Australia's history as a collection of British colonies, although a more historic view sees its flag on flagmast parliament house australian inclusion in the design as demonstrating loyalty to the British Empire.
		Flags in any locality may be flown at half-mast on the death of a notable local citizen or on the day, or part of the day, of their funeral.
	australin.tripod.com /Australin/Australian_Flag.html (4449 words)

	It's an Honour - Symbols - Australian National Flag
		The flag should not fall or lie on the ground or be used as a cover (although it can be used to cover a coffin at a funeral).
		The flag must be lowered to a position recognisably half-mast to avoid the appearance of a flag which has accidentally fallen away from the top of the flagpole.
		Flags in any locality can be flown at half-mast on the death of a local citizen or on the day, or part of the day, of their funeral.
	www.itsanhonour.gov.au /symbols/flag.cfm (1740 words)

	Oz I.D. - Federation 1901 teacher notes
		Australian delegates went to London with a Bill that included the Constitution, there were some further amendments, and legislation was enacted in British parliament in 1900.
		Nearly 40% of all qualified voters around the Australian colonies expressed no opinion on the adoption of the Australian Constitution, while more than a third of those who did vote on it, were opposed to its adoption.
		Many Australians at federation really did believe that Australia was to be safeguarded from the "coloured races" that surrounded our shores and wanted to invade us, and that there task was to pass on to the next generation their "white heritage."
	www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au /archives/ozid/federation1901_1.html (3645 words)

	A New Flag for Australia: Current Flag
		Prior to federation, the six colonies (and indeed all British colonies around the world) were required to fly the British Blue Ensign with their respective colonial badge in the fly.
		Although the new flag was gazetted by the government in 1903, it was not until 1954 that legislation was passed proclaiming the flag.
		At the federation celebrations in 1901, prior to the national competition, a strikingly different design was flown alongside the Union Jack as the flag of the new Commonwealth.
	members.tripod.com /djc9/newflag/current.htm (870 words)

	Australia Flag - World Flags 101 - Australian Flags
		The Australian flag has a dark royal blue base with a depiction of the British Union Jack in the upper left quarter.
		The right half of the Australian flag consists of a constellation (the Southern Cross constellation) with one small white five pointed star and four larger white seven pointed stars that are equal in size.
		The blue based Australian flag was adopted over the red design due to the fact that red represented communism.
	www.worldflags101.com /a/australia-flag.aspx (398 words)

	Union Jacks and Southern Skies: The Australian Commonwealth Flag and the Need for a New National Flag
		The other flag that Barton spoke of was the popular Australian Federation Flag, often referred to as the "Australian Ensign" or the "Australian Flag", used widely by the Australian Federation League to promote the federation of the Australian colonies, and which had been regarded as Australia's "unofficial national flag".
		So, the Commonwealth Flag was chosen, not by the Australian people, not by a panel of Australian flag judges, not by the Australian Government, but by the British Government and King Edward VII (or perhaps more specifically, by the British Admiralty or the Secretary of State for the Colonies?).
		As the 1939 edition of the authoritative Flags of the World states: "The national flag of the Commonwealth of Australia is of course the Union, her ensign the Blue Ensign with a large white seven pointed star beneath the Union, and the Southern Cross" (emphasis added).
	home.alphalink.com.au /~eureka/ozflag.htm (5531 words)

	Australian National Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Federal Parliament passed a resolution on the 2 June 1904 to fly the flag 'upon all forts, vessels, saluting places and public buildings of the Commonwealth upon all occasions when flags are used' giving it the same status as the Union Jack in the UK.
		There were two versions of the flag: red for merchant ships (known as the Commonwealth red ensign) and blue for other uses (known as the Commonwealth blue ensign), which caused some confusion.
		The flag was carried into New Guinea at the outbreak of World War I, and in tribute to the valour of Australian soldiers in
	www.flagsociety.org.au /Australian-National-Flag.htm (683 words)

	History of the Australian national flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The coming Australian Commonwealth will need a Flag, and many efforts are already being made to evolve a graceful, characteristic, and effective national symbol a flag that shall at once express kinship with the Empire and yet be characteristic of the new and great political entity which has come into existence.
		A six-pointed star, representing the six federated States of Australia, immediately underneath the Union Jack, and pointing direct to the center of the St. George Cross, of a size to occupy the major portion of one quarter of the flag.
		The prime minister Edmund Barton preferred the use of the "Australian Ensign" (or NSW Ensign or Federation Flag) and actually sent this flag with the winning entry as one of two options for the King to choose between.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/au_hist.html (1444 words)

	A New Flag for Australia: Why Change the Flag?
		The flag is a variation of the British Blue Ensign, the flag flown by colonies of the United Kingdom.
		Flags based on the Blue Ensign were always intended to be colonial flags.
		The current flag will always be known as the flag Australians served under in the 20th century, reflecting Australia's role as part of the British Empire during this time.
	members.tripod.com /djc9/newflag/why.htm (1866 words)

	Flag History - The Australian Flag - History
		Under the Flags Act of 1953, passed unanimously by parliament, it was confirmed that our "Stars and Crosses" design be the chief national symbol by law, custom and tradition and that it be honoured with the title "Australian National Flag".
		The new status of the national flag was emphasized when the act of parliament received royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II, on Her Majesty’s visit to Australia in 1954.
		The Australian rules of flag etiquette are designed to ensure that the national flag is displayed with the dignity befitting its status.
	www.australianationalflag.com.au /history.php (578 words)

	Australian flag suggestion - 1995 - John Costella
		With the growing movement for an Australian republic in the mid-1990s leading many to believe that the change would be inevitable, the ramifications of dropping our allegiance to the Queen or King of England were being thought out.
		The Australian flag has been in existence for most of the time since Federation, and most Australians are quite attached to it.
		A comment from a flag expert led me to remove the Federation Star as being too “busy”, and to move the Southern Cross to the position of honour at the upper left of the flag.
	www.assassinationscience.com /johncostella/flag/index_old_content.html (675 words)

	Australian Flag - A New Design for a Digital Era
		Two of my clip art collections differed in their depiction of the flag (neither was accurate) and I didn't like the way the stars were distorted when reduced to the desired size.
		Sometimes, when I ate at my local RSL club, I wondered why the Australian flag on its restaurant's chalkboard menu was allowed to get away with a rendition that differs markedly from a real flag on display across the room.
		The designs at the left are less likely to be confused for the Canadian flag in a stiff breeze or when the flag is limp on a flagpole.
	crm911.com /flag (1072 words)

	Aussie-Flag
		Among the better known flags in Australia's early colonial history was the National Colonial flag (1823), the Anti-Transportation League flag (1851), the Murray River flag (1853), the Eureka flag (1854) and the Australian federation flag (1880s-1890s).
		The next flag that was used in Australia was the Eureka flag which used the colors and cross of their ancestors and displayed their rights under the British Constitution which go to the same ancestral source to resist the tragic misuse of law and illegal legislation..
		The Australian federation flag was a popular symbol in the 1880s and 1890s of the movement for the federation of the colonies.
	www.lockstockandbarrel.org /aussie-f.htm (1273 words)

	Flag History - The Australian Flag - Flag Designers - Ivor William Evans
		The Commonwealth of Australia officially flew the flag of the British Empire as well as the popular but unofficial Australian Federation Flag until a nationwide competition to design a new flag was held.
		In 1908 a seventh point was added to represent all the Federal Territories which, today, include the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory, The Cocos Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory.
		Ivor believed that the flag of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, had a place on Australia's flag because of the historical links between our island continent and the British isles.
	www.flagaustnat.asn.au /ivorevans.php (429 words)

	History of the Australian national flag
		The coming Australian Commonwealth will need a Flag, and many efforts are already being made to evolve a graceful, characteristic, and effective national symbol a flag that shall at once express kinship with the Empire and yet be characteristic of the new and great political entity which has come into existence.
		A six-pointed star, representing the six federated States of Australia, immediately underneath the Union Jack, and pointing direct to the center of the St. George Cross, of a size to occupy the major portion of one quarter of the flag.
		The prime minister Edmund Barton preferred the use of the "Australian Ensign" (or NSW Ensign or Federation Flag) and actually sent this flag with the winning entry as one of two options for the King to choose between.
	flagspot.net /flags/au_hist.html (1444 words)

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