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	Australian Red Ensign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a result, the official flag was blue and the merchant flag was the traditional Red Ensign, featuring the distinctive Southern Cross and Commonwealth star.
		The Shipping Registration Act of 1981 reaffirmed that the Australian Red Ensign was the proper "colours" for Australian registered ships and that private pleasure craft could fly either the Red Ensign or the Australian National Flag.
		From 1901 to 1954 this flag was used as a civil flag, to be flown by private citizens on land, while the government used the Blue Ensign reflecting British practice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Red_Ensign (232 words)

	Red Ensign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until 1864, the Red Ensign was the principal ensign of the Royal Navy, and as such it was worn by ships of the Red Squadron of the navy, as well as by those warships that were not assigned to any squadron (i.e., those sailing under independent command).
		As a result, the Blue Ensign was used throughout the Empire and thus became the model for the flags used by a number of colonies and former colonies in the British Empire.
		Red Ensign of the Union of South Africa as it appeared from 1910 to 1912.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Ensign (1821 words)

	Flying the Flag - Flag Protocol
		The Australian National Flag should not be used as a covering of a statue, monument or plaque for an unveiling ceremony (a plain cover should be used); as a table or seat cover, or as a masking for boxes, barriers or intervening space between floor and ground level on a dias or platform.
		When the Australian National Flag is flown alone on top of, or in front of a building where there are two flagpoles, it should be flown on the flagpole to the left of the observer facing the flag.
		When the Australian National Flag is displayed alone at a meeting on a speaker's platform it should be flag against the wall, or on a staff on the speaker's right as he faces the audience.
	www.flagaustnat.asn.au /protocol.php (1430 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.
		In addition to the Blue Ensign there are several additional Australian flags, including the Aboriginal flag, the Torres Strait Islander flag and the flags of the Defence Forces.
		In 1951, King George VI approved a recommendation by the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies that the Australian Blue Ensign be adopted as the National Flag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_Australia (2986 words)

	Red Ensign, Australia's 'forgotten' flag
		Because the Blue Ensign (Commonwealth Ensign) was the official flag and it's use by ordinary citizens was discouraged many people from the Attorney General down used the Red Ensign as a de-facto Civil Flag.
		Watson claimed that it was the first Australian flag to be flown in France during the war, and on his safe return to Australia presented it to the Australian War Museum (later War Memorial) for display.
		This ensign was presented to the Imperial Reservists who left Australia in 1914, by the Honourable W M 'Billy' Hughes, then Attorney General and later Prime Minister, and personally handed to Corporal Edward Dawson Watson of the East Lancashire Regiment.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/red_ensign.htm (2088 words)

	Aussie-Flag
		The Commonwealth red ensign, or merchant flag, was identical except that it had a red background instead of a blue one.
		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.
		Australian naval vessels used the British Royal Navy ‘s white ensign, with the Australian blue ensign at the bow as an additional flag.
	www.owenguns.com /Documents/aussie-f.htm (2919 words)

	To add to HomePage
		The Australian National Flag The Australian National Flag should be displayed only in a manner befitting the national emblem; it should not he subjected to indignity or displayed in a position inferior to any other flag or ensign.
		The Australian National Flag should not be used as a covering of a statue, monument or plaque for an unveiling ceremony (a plain cover should he used); 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.
		When crossed with a flag of another sovereign nation, the Australian National Flag should be on the left of the observer facing the flags; its staff should be in front of the staff of the other flag.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~anfainc/protocol.htm (1607 words)

	Flags & Emblems of Australia
		The red ensign remained the Civil flag and the blue ensign the Government flag.
		In 1953 the Flags Act was passed in the Commonwealth Parliament, formally establishing the Australian National Flag and the Australian Red Ensign.
		Thus the nomenclature of Australian flags and ensigns was changed and the Australian Blue Ensign became the Australian National Flag and the Australian Merchant Flag became the Australian Red Ensign.
	www.irishaustralia.com /Australian/Anthem/flagsetc.htm (2554 words)

	Sydney Heritage Fleet - James Craig's flags
		The Australian Civil Ensign, or Australian Red Ensign, is simply a red version of the Australian National flag.
		The history of the Red Ensign is intertwined with the history of the Australian National flag.
		From 1901 to 1954 the Red Ensign was in practice, used as Australia's Civil Flag, i.e.
	www.australianheritagefleet.com.au /JCraig/flags.html (696 words)

	australia flag history, Artisan Flags Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The flying of the Ensign of land by an individuals and non-government bodies was discouraged, although in 1941 the Prime Minister, Mr.
		Australian merchant vessels were to continue to fly the Commonwealth Red Ensign.
		By a Proclamation under section 5 of the Flags Act 1953 the Governor-General appointed the Australian White Ensign to be the ensign of the Royal Australian Navy.
	www.artisanflags.com.au /Protocol_Australia_History.aspx (883 words)

	United Kingdom: ensigns
		The seniority of the Ensigns was set in 1653 and was not altered by the Order in Council of 1864, as first Red, second White and third Blue.
		Red, white and blue ensigns respectively, defaced with addition of white, red and red-with-white-outlined stars of the southern cross.
		The colonial blue ensign, defaced with a modified version of the state arms on a disc was official for all purposes at sea.
	flagspot.net /flags/gb-ensig.html (1805 words)

	Australia in New Zealand - Oz Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The RAAF used the ensign of the Royal Air Force of Britain until 1949, whereupon the Southern Cross and Commonwealth star were added to the ensign and the British roundel (military aircraft insignia) was moved to the lower fly.
		During the Vietnam War the RAAF ceased using the British roundel on its aircraft, as Britain was not involved in the Vietnam war and the continued use of the British roundel on Australian military aircraft highlighted its inappropriateness.
		The new Air Force ensign with the Australian roundel was proclaimed as an official Australian on 6 May 1982.
	www.australia.org.nz /ozkids_relatedtopic.php?ID=4 (1217 words)

	Australian Red Ensign Page 3
		This 1916 catalogue for a piano solo march honouring the Anzacs clearly shows an Australian Red Ensign, stylized in the same or similar manner to that applied to the other national flags.
		On November 7th 1920 the remains of an Australian soldier and a French soldier were buried in the Amiens Cathedral.
		Celebrating the history of the Red Ensign is NOT an attack on the Blue (Australian National) Flag.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/red_ensign_3.htm (873 words)

	flag of Australia flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
		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.
		Australians are indeed very proud of the fact that H.M. Queen Elizabeth II gave her personal assent to the Act on February 15th 1954, during her visit to Canberra, the Federal capital.
		[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.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/au.html (1828 words)

	Australian Flag Information- Aussie Blue Ensign - History and Info on Australian National Flags
		From 1788 the Union Flag remained as the Australian flag, until the six states (Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania) were unified as the "Commonwealth of Australia" on January 1st 1901.
		The Australian flag also displays the Southern Cross on the fly edge, a constellation displayed through the southern skies of Australia.
		The true name for for the canton on the Australian Flag is the "Union Flag".
	pennanthouse.com.au /vexillology/australian-flags/australian-flag.htm (369 words)

	Protection of Australian Flags (Desecration of the Flag) Bill 2003 (Bills Digest, no. 42, 2003-04)
		It re-designates the Australian Red Ensign to be the Australian marine flag.
		The Australian Red Ensign is the ensign of the Australian Merchant Navy and is given legislative status by section 4 of the Flags Act.
		The Australian Red Ensign is described in Schedule 1 of the Flags Act and reproduced in Schedule 2 of that Act.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/bd/2003-04/04bd042.htm (7374 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)

	The Australian National Flag [Australian War Memorial]
		In both wars, Australians fought under the Blue Ensign (since 1953 the Australian National Flag), the Red Ensign (since 1953 the Australian Red Ensign, the proper colours for merchant ships registered in Australia), and the Union Flag (the Union Jack).
		In the First World War, both Australian ensigns and the Union Jack were used in recruiting posters, postcards and badges.
		In the Second World War, the Australian ensigns were used more frequently.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/australia_flag.htm (87 words)

	Flags Amendment Bill 1996 (Bills Digest, no. 18, 1996-97)
		Sometimes the red ensign was flown on land, sometimes the Union Jack was used in official ceremonies.
		The answer to this question is 'yes.' In 1967, the Australian White Ensign was proclaimed by the Governor-General to be the ensign of the Royal Australian Navy and in 1982, the Royal Australian Air Force Ensign was proclaimed by the Governor-General to be the RAAF ensign.
		When the question of a new Australian flag is debated, it is sometimes said that the Australian National Flag should not be changed because Australians fought and died under it in two World Wars.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/bd/1996-97/97bd018.htm (2041 words)

	Subject Listing from Da Capo Music and Books
		Red and blue cover with the recognition that it was 'The Accepted March song of the Australian Expeditionary Forces'.
		The title is explained by the ANZAC reference of the "Battle-cry of the Australian Soldiers at the Dardanelles" Some wear to bottom corners, several small tears to edges, some light foxing to covers, circular milk advert to lower part of cover..
		Australian and American Flags as curtains flanking a portrait of a soldier askew in the centre.
	users.bigpond.net.au /dacapo/auswar.html (4308 words)

	Australian Shipping Registration Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Australian Shipping Registration Office was established in 1982 under the provisions of the Shipping Registration Act 1981.
		It also provides for Australian ships to fly the Australian National Flag or the Australian Red Ensign in accordance with Australia's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, to which Australia is a party.
		It should be noted that the Australian States also keep records of ships and small craft that are subject to their jurisdiction.
	www.amsa.gov.au /Shipping_Registration (172 words)

	1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 1988
		However, in 1900 the Colonial Office in London invited the attention of the Governor-General Designate to the necessity of a Commonwealth flag to enable the new Australian nation to comply with the provisions of legislation governing colonial naval forces and mercantile marine.
		Australian merchant vessels will, of course, continue to fly the Commonwealth Red Ensign.
		In 1950, after an interdepartmental committee recommendation, Cabinet approved that the Australian Blue Ensign be adopted as the Australian National Flag.
	www.abs.gov.au /Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/04387DFF36DBE761CA2569DE001FB2C4 (1600 words)

	The Australian Flag
		The Australian Flag came into being after the the federation of the Australian States into the Commonwealth of Australian on 1 January, 1901.
		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.
		This flag was adopted as the symbol of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people when it was first flown in 1971.
	www.anbg.gov.au /oz/flag.html (1022 words)

	flagsonline.net Australian Red Ensign
		The Australian Red Ensign (flag) is a red version of the national flag of Australia.
		It was adopted in 1901 for use by the merchant navy, but restrictions governing the use of the Commonwealth Blue Ensign (as the national flag was then called) saw it used as a civil flag as well.
		The confusion about its use continued until the Flags Act 1953, which stipulated the Commonwealth Blue Ensign was the Australian National Flag and the Commonwealth Red Ensign was the Australian Red Ensign for use by Australian registered merchant ships.
	www.flagsonline.net /Australia/red.htm (239 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		That was because the 'Blue Ensign' was the federal flag (Commonwealth Flag) and it's use by ordinary Australians was discouraged; not illegal, but discouraged.
		The flag that was supposed to be the Merchant Marine flag, the Australian Red Ensign, became a de-facto Civil Flag.
		But I also recognise that the Australian Red Ensign was and is an important part of our history and deserves it's full recognition.
	au.geocities.com /forgotten_flag (373 words)

	Pictures of Australia - Australian flag
		Australia's national ensign got its shown design in the "Flags Act" in 1953, although it has existed since 1903.
		Black stands for the people, red for the land and the yellow disk represents the sun.
		Red Ensign: The Red Ensign is the official flag that registered merchant ships should fly.
	www.australienbilder.de /e-flags.htm (323 words)

	Australian Flags Act 1953 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An Act to declare a certain Flag to be the Australian National Flag and to make other provision with respect to Flags.
		The Governor-General may, by warrant, authorize a person, body or authority to use a flag or ensign referred to in, or appointed under, this Act, either without defacement or defaced in the manner specified in the warrant.
		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.
	www.statusquo.org /flagact.html (847 words)

	Australia
		The positions of alpha-epsilon are given with respect to the centre of the square fly, and distances in terms of hoist width of the flag.
		Below is a summary of the history of the Australian flag.
		The Admiralty Warrant of 4 June 1903 authorised the Australian Red Ensign for vessels registered in Australia.
	flagspot.net /flags/au.html (1128 words)

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