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Australian National Flag Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Australian National Flag Association is a lobby group founded on 10 May, 1983 in response to suggestions that the current Australian flag is not appropriately representative of the nation, and should be changed. On 2001-09-03 the ANFA presented the Centenary Flag, an Australian national flag inscribed with a centenary message, to the Prime Minister, John Howard. The association aims to increase awareness of the history and significance of the pre-eminent symbol of Australia - the national flag. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_National_Flag_Association

Australian Flag; it's origins & history The Australian White Ensign and the Ensign of the RAAF are ensigns (junior flags) to the Australian National Flag not the Union Jack. 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. The Australian Blue Ensign had a legal change of name and became the Australian National Flag in 1951 with legislative backing coming in 1953. www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/australian_flag.htm

History of the Australian national flag (Part 2) Flag of the Commonwealth : Flag of the Governor-General. The 'Southern Cross' in the fly, as being indicative of the sentiment of the Australian Nation. As regards Design "C", which is the design for the Flag of the Governor General, it conforms to the King's Regulation 77 c (assuming the Six-point Star be taken as the Commonwealth Badge) except as regards the crown. www.fotw.net /flags/au_hist2.html

Australian National Flag Association For the Australian people the Australian National Flag is profoundly symbolic. The flag is the icon of Australian freedom as it flies "aloft and free" representing both the union of Australians as one nation - and their rights and responsibilities as citizens - allowing personal divergence and self-expression. Every sovereign nation on earth flies its own national flag, the symbol of the country, of the people, of the ideals and beliefs that those people live by and proclaim. www.flagaustnat.asn.au /default_old.php

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The Australian Flag Several nations and territories have flags with similar appearance to the Australian National Flag, reflecting either a common British colonial history or previous association with Austrlaia. The Australian Army is represented by and protector of the Australian National Flag. First used in Victoria in 1854 by a group of rebellious gold-miners protesting the cost of prospecting licences at the 'Eureka stockade', this flag has become the symbol of Australians prepared to fight to defend rights and liberties. www.anbg.gov.au /oz/flag.html

Mirago : Reference: Flags: Regional: Australia Australian National Flag Association - Commentary and history of the national flag, as well as information on the Aboriginal and Torres Straits flags. Australian National Flag Association - Includes images, description, and instructions for making a flag of Australia. Australian Flag History - History of the national, Aboriginal, state, and territory flags. www.miragorobot.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Reference/Flags/Regional/Australia

Australian Flags Act 1953 The Australian National Flag is a blue flag, and the Australian Red Ensign is a red flag, the design of each of which is specified in clause 1A. The Australian National Flag and the Australian Red Ensign , is declared to be the Australian National Flag. www.statusquo.org /flagact.html

ABC - Olympics - Index The Australian National Flag Association, which does not want the flag changed before a plebiscite on the issue, says it is extremely disappointed over plans not to use the national flag on team uniforms. Australian National Flag Association President John Vaughan says he is appalled the suggestion has been made on an historic day like Anzac Day. The Australian Olympic Committee is favouring not using the Australian flag on team uniforms for the Sydney Olympics. www.abc.net.au /news/olympics/1998/04/item199804281209091.htm

Australian flag; more details of the Australian National flag Australian flag; more details of the Australian National flag This flag was carried on a lance by Lieutenant General Sir John Monash during the Victory Parade held in London on 19 July 1919. The flag was carried up the hill by the signallers and raised on top of a high rock at the top of Hill 323. www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/australian.htm

Australia The Centenary Flag is the flag presented on 3 September 2001 to the Prime Minister by the Australian National Flag Association, being an Australian National Flag suitably inscribed with flag centenary message. Commemorating the day in 1901 on which the Australian National Flag was first flown. [The Australian Flag [fol96] by Carol Foley] After the 1953 Flags Act, the situation was reversed, the 'blue ensign' became the only flag private citizens could fly on land, while the use of the Red Ensign on land were prohibited. flagspot.net /flags/au.html

Oz One of the aims of the Australian National Flag Association of Queensland (Inc) is to protect our Flag from change, insult, disrespect, neglect, damage or destruction. The Australian National Flag should not be used as a covering of a statue, monument or plaque for an unveiling ceremony, as a table or seat cover; or as a masking for boxes, barriers or intervening space between floor and ground level on a dais or platform. It is desirable to avoid flying the Australian National Flag and State or house Flags on the same rope (halyard). homepage.mac.com /vpetrik/AUSTRALIAweb/flag/oz.htm

The Australian: Australian flag turns 100 [ 20feb03 ] With Australian National Flag Association funding, a headstone with a bronze plaque and ceramic-tile flag were added to the grave. THE story about how "Auntie Annie" designed the Australian flag has become folklore in the Whistler family – one distant relative even celebrated the connection by having the flag painted on the bonnet of her car. And in 1954, it officially became the Australian flag – replacing the Union Jack. www.theaustralian.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,6011193,00.html

Home Page As a result of my web site some foul mouthed yobbo who claimed to have an association with the Australian National Flag Association (it was later shown that he was a discredited FORMER Office Bearer) contacted me and accused me of trying to undermine the flag. In the early 1950s the Government made the position clear and the Australian National Flag had, for the first time ever, a legislative backing and the seniority it deserves. The flag that was supposed to be the Merchant Marine flag, the Australian Red Ensign, became a de-facto Civil Flag. au.geocities.com /forgotten_flag

HINCH.net - The Official Derryn Hinch Website Now, Turncoat Turnbull, has signed up as a financial member of a group called the Australian National Flag Association which is dedicated to retaining the current flag. The blue ensign with the stars of the Southern Cross and the Federation star is dominated by the Union Jack – the flag of England, Scotland and Ireland. And sometimes our flag is confused with the almost identical New Zealand flag from “across the ditch” as they say. hinch.net /says_archive04/Aug04/20-8-04.htm

Australian Territorial Flags (Geobop's Symbols) Most of these territories are represented by Australia's national flag, including the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands Territory, the Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory, which is nearly as large as Australia. Australian Flags, Department of Administrative Services, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1995 To learn more about Australia’s national flag and coat of arms, visit these websites: www.geobop.com /symbols/Flags/world/australia/territory

Australian Flag - Debunking Ausflag The Australian National Flag is made up of three parts. The fly, about 50% of our flag, acknowledges the first Australians living underneath the Southern Cross in a continent surrounded by water. Like the USA flag in which the 13 stripes represent the original 13 states, the union flag represents the first 3 groups of immigrants to arrive in modern Australia. www.statusquo.org /flagitfolder/flagit_part02.htm

National flag - Australian Flag The dominating colour of the national flag is red. Most notable is the New Zealand National Flag, a Blue Ensign with a Southern Cross of four red stars. In 1999, Japan adopted new legislation on the national flag. www.worldinfopage.com /wip/national-flag.htm

New Zealand (09/04) The country's long association with Samoa (formerly known as Western Samoa), reflected in a treaty of friendship signed in 1962, and its close association with Tonga have resulted in a flow of immigrants and visitors under work permit schemes from both countries. Since 1996, neither the National nor the Labour Party has had an absolute majority in parliament, and for all but one of those years, the government has been a minority one. Political parties: Labour, National, Progressive Coalition Party, New Zealand Green Party, New Zealand First, ACT, United Future, and several smaller parties not represented in Parliament. www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35852.htm

National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 102 - The Australian Flag Section 3 of the Act states that the flag (illustrated in the First Schedule to the Act) is 'declared to be the Australian National Flag'. flag is a 'piece of cloth, commonly bunting, of varying size, shape, colour and device' [1] used as a 'mark of distinction, rank or nationality' [2]. One of the earliest documented official requests for designs for a national flag came in a dispatch dated 29 November 1900 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in Britain. www.naa.gov.au /Publications/fact_sheets/FS102.html

A New Australian Flag You can click on their names to read more about them or you can go to the Australian National Flag Association website by clicking here. From the bottom the flag incorporates the blue, green and black of the Torres Strait Islander (TSI) flag, the black, yellow and red of the Aboriginal flag and the red, white and blue of the national flag. The "Federal"/"National" Star is prominent in the upper Fly position or second quarter and is retained, though relocated from the present national flag where it is in the third quarter or lower Hoist position. www.paulsrus.net /Ross/Ausflag.html

Austrailia.htm Bush Tucker--Bush tucker is Australian terminology for the huge variety of herbs, spices, mushrooms, fruits, flowers, vegetables, animals, birds, reptiles and insects that are native to the country. Flags Of The Fiji Islands--Learn the history behind this country's current and past flags. This site was designed and dedicated to those Australians who served their nation over the past one hundred years. www.tms.riverview.wednet.edu /lrc/Austrailia.htm

Australian Flag Australian National Flag Association for the information about the Union Jack Further, I was doing some research about what the names for the Stars on the Australian Flag are and how far away they from us in the Southern Hemisphere. When the flag was originally designed, each star in the Southern Cross had a different number of points starting from 9 points at the bottom - thence clockwise 8 7 6 around to sEpsilon with five points?. home.vicnet.net.au /~rasigsau/australian_flag.htm

examiner.com.au : Flag dispute drags in PM Ian is not backing down as council gives ground The Australian National Flag Association is to write a complaint direct to Mr Howard, despite a partial backdown by the Launceston City Council, while Bass Liberal MHR Michael Ferguson is to ask Mr Howard for support to change the Flags Act 1953 to allow such activity. Australian National Flag Association State president Reg Watson said Mr Garwood was being victimised by "the trendies of the Launceston City Council". Liberal Senator Guy Barnett said he was outraged that a citizen could be prosecuted for flying the Australian flag and urged citizens to protest against "this senseless and un-Australian persecution of a veteran digger". www.examiner.com.au /story.asp?id=272279

Australian National Flag Day - Aussie-Info.com The Australian National Flag Association of Queensland (Inc.)] The Australian National Flag is raised every morning at the school in Villers-Bretonneux in France, in memory of the thousands of Australian casualties in liberating their village in 1917 (during the First World War). The Australian National Flag was raised for the first time at an Olympic Games in 1908 (London), celebrating a win for Australia in Rugby Union, at that time an Olympic event. www.aussie-info.com /identity/nationalflag.php

Ausflag - The Turnbull Letters As Mr Malcolm Turnbull was a long term director and contributor of Ausflag Limited, his decision to join the Australian National Flag Association (ANFA) and declare his support for the traditional Australian National Flag of "Stars and Crosses" is most significant. Letter from John Vaughan, Australian National Flag Association, To Ausflag You may care to consider donating any surplus funds to the worthy, non-profit, school educational undertakings of the Australian National Flag Association. www.ausflag.com.au /debate/turnbull1.html

National flags. (from flag) --  Encyclopædia Britannica This flag may consist of a coat of arms or other device on the field of the national flag. The colours and designs of national flags are usually not arbitrarily selected but rather stem from the history, culture, or religion of the particular country. Besides the national flag, which represents the people of a nation, there may be other kinds of flags. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=2345

Discovering Democracy - Teaching Civics - Classroom Activities Visit the Australian National Flag Association site to see messages about our flag for National Flag Day 2004 and to access more information and resources. since 1901 is a new and engaging video that explores the origins and values that have gone into making the Australian national flag. The video and teachers notes aim to foster primary school students' understanding of the national flag. www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/classroom/classroom.htm

CSU Guide to Australia - Culture Australian Women's Art Register is an archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources, both old and new, documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. Australian organisation devoted to preserving the cultural integrity of the didgeridoo. New Acropolis Cultural Association is a non-profit organization whose mission is to revive Philosophy in the Classical Tradition. www.csu.edu.au /australia/culture.html

Discovering Democracy - Links Included are arguments for and against a republic, the 1998 Constitutional Convention, the November 1999 Referendum and information on the Australian Constitution and the flag. Nicky Jones, National President of the Young Australian Democrats Young Australians for a Republic [YAR] is a diverse group of young people committed to the goal of an Australian Republic with an Australian as Head of State. www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/otheroptions/links.htm

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