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	Flag of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In particular, the flag is difficult to distinguish from a variety of flags based on the British Blue Ensign, most notably the national flag of New Zealand and the state flag of Victoria.
		Claims that Australians have "fought and died under the flag" are spurious, given that during most of the wars Australians have been involved in, they have usually "fought under" various British flags or the Australian Red Ensign, as well as the current Blue Ensign design.
		The Flags Act 1953 originally contained a serious drafting error in Table A. The outer diameter of the Commonwealth Star was recorded as being three-eighths of the width of the flag, instead of the true value of three-tenths of the width of the flag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_Australia (1992 words)

	Australian Aboriginal flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian Aboriginal flag was designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas, an Aboriginal artist descended from the Luritja clan of Central Australia.
		In 1995 it was officially accepted by the Australian government to be legally "a Flag of Australia".
		Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_aboriginal_flag (231 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.
		The Australian National Flag should, however, be hoisted first and lowered last unless the number of flags permits their being hoisted and lowered simultaneously.
	www.anzacday.org.au /education/tff/flag.html (694 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)

	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
		This flag was considered the Flag of the British Empire and was given pride of place in any grouping of Empire and Commonwealth Flags.
		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 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 (1371 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.
		The flags of the Australian territories and of more individual nature and are not based on the Blue Ensign.
		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.
	www.anbg.gov.au /oz/flag.html (1022 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.
		Two young children in front of the Shrine of Remembrance (one holding an Australian Flag).
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/australia_flag.htm (87 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)

	Australian National Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Federal Government encourages the flying of the Australian national flag by all Australians and is committed to retaining and promoting pride in the flag and actively encourages all Australians to be aware of, and proud of, their country’s identity.
		Also the Flags Amendment Act 1996 was passed by the House of Representatives on 12 December 1996 to guarantee that all Australians will be consulted before any changes to the design of the Australian national flag are made.
		The Flags Amendment Act 1996 requires that any change to the Australian national flag must be approved by the Australian electorate and that the existing Australian national flag will always be amongst the choices offered to the Australian people.
	www.pm.gov.au /aus_in_focus/nat_symbols/flag.html (354 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 102 - The Australian Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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].
		The flags of the Australian colonies date from 1876 (New South Wales and Queensland), 1877 (Victoria) and 1895 (Tasmania and Western Australia).
		While the design and uses of the flag were proclaimed in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, it was not until the Flags Act 1953 that legislation was passed prescribing the form and use of the flag.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS102.html (821 words)

	Australian Flag Society Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Australians who insist on maintaining a British heritage are creating and perpetuating divisions in society." (Australian Republican Movement) Flag Breaking News: Former republican leader Malcolm Turnbull declares his support for the Australian flag and says moratorium on the republic while Her Majesty reigns...
		The Australian National Flag continues to be one of the principal symbols of our nation during more than a century of stable democracy, in wars and depressions, as well as the many golden moments of singular accomplishment – including in science, the arts, sport and agriculture.
		The National Colonial Flag for Australia (1823/24) was the forerunner of the many Australian flag designs which featured the Southern Cross and Union Flag in combination.
	www.flagsociety.org.au (1183 words)

	Flag etiquette for the Australian Flag
		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.
		In a semi-circle of flags representing a number of sovereign nations, the Australian Flag should be in the centre.
		The Australian National Flag should never be displayed with the Union down except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/etiquette.htm (1943 words)

	National Colonial flag (Australia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Crampton in Flag wrote: "The first flag to carry the four stars of the Southern Cross was the National Colonial Flag of 1823-4, which placed them on the red cross of the British White Ensign."
		According to Bingle's memoirs, the design of the National Colonial Flag was approved by the Lords of the Admiralty and accepted as an official Australian flag by Sir Thomas Brisbane, who was the sixth Governor of New South Wales.
		In any event, the flag never gained the support of the Australian people, primarily because while it was representative of those of English descent by virtue of containing the St George cross, it ignored the Irish and the Scots.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/au_1823.html (1197 words)

	Australian Flag
		The flag was designed to be an eye-catching rallying symbol for the Aboriginal people and a symbol of their race and identity.
		The Aboriginal flag was first raised in Victoria Square in Adelaide on National Aboriginal Day in 1971, but was adopted nationally by Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in 1972 after it was flown above the Aboriginal "Tent Embassy" outside of the old Parliament House in Canberra.
		The flag was so proclaimed by the Governor General of Australia, William Hayden, on 14 July 1995.
	www.dltk-kids.com /world/australia/flag.htm (386 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.
		The committee looking at the flags eventually decided on a flag that was not exactly the same as any one of the five, but similar to all of them.
		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)

	Oz
		If there are three flag poles and the centre one is the taller, the National Flag is in the centre, the State Flag on the left when facing the building, and the house flag or pennant on the right.
		When the flag poles are the same height the National Flag must be flown on the left, the State Flag in the middle, and the house flag or pennants on the right.
		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.
	www.ozbird.com /oz.htm (1188 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.
		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.
		[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 (1138 words)

	Australian Capital Territory (Australia)
		This passage is from Carol A. Foley's The Australian Flag [fol96]:
		The design of the new ACT flag was drawn by Mr Ivo Ostyn and was clearly inspired by the Northern Territory flag.
		Therefore, despite the inconsistency created with crowns on other state flag badges, the Tudor style crown (though different again to the Edward VII style of crown we have been talking about recently) was used for the flag in 1993, maintaining consistency with the official drawing of the arms.
	www.fotw.net /flags/au-act.html (1030 words)

	The Australian Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Scotland the red lion rampant "Royal Standard" is waved by supporters of the SNP while the Union Flag is scorned.
		The device "in the corner" (as Mr Keating expressed it) is a quarter (an heraldic charge) bearing the Union (the crosses of Saint Andrew, Saint George and Saint Patrick) as borne on the national flag of the United Kingdom and thus representing the patron saints of the three principal nations which founded Australia.
		Such quarters can, of course, allude to a family relationship, a blood connection or an alliance, and thus the presence of the Union quarter on the Australian ensign is highly appropriate.
	www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-01/ausflag.html (838 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).
	www.alphalink.com.au /~eureka/ozflag.htm (5531 words)

	Australian Flag Company
		His was the first recorded landing on the Australian east coast, and the act of raising the Union Flag at Botany Bay represented taking possession of the land in the name of the King.
		The Australian National Flag consists of a dark blue background (this was just the designers choice) with the Union Jack contained in the upper hoist (top left corner).
		The most dominant symbols in the Australian national Flag are the five stars of the Southern Cross.
	www.australianflag.biz /history.htm (778 words)

	A Flag for an Australian Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Much of the symbolism of the Sun and Stars flag is self-evident and immediately clear so that the flag speaks for itself, proclaiming clearly and unequivocally our identity to other nations as well as to ourselves.
		The Sun and Stars flag was designed with the Southern Cross (because it has traditionally and beautifully referred to Australia) and the Federation Star (because it refers to the history of the nation).
		John Jukes, Master Flagmaker from the Flags of All Nations, provided invaluable advice about the correct rendition of the Southern Cross stars as they appear on the current Australian flag which has precise rules as to the size and position of the stars.
	users.eis.net.au /~xinjin (1930 words)

	AusEmade: Australian Flag
		The Australian National Flag features the five stars of the constellation of the Southern Cross and the Commonwealth Star, and the combined crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick.
		Christmas Island - a diagonally divided flag with a central yellow circle enclosing a white map of the island, lower hoist a white Southern Cross (five stars, four 7-point, one five point) on a blue background, upper fly a yellow frigate bird flying hoist to fly on a green background - an unofficial flag.
		The official flag is the Australian national flag.
	www.ausemade.com.au /national/info/flag.htm (557 words)

	Australian Flag
		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?.
		Together, they form the flag of Great Britain which we call "The Union Jack" - BTW "Jack" means a flag flown at the jack staff on a ship.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~rasigsau/australian_flag.htm (662 words)

	New Australian Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This Flag can further be developed to create a complete system of Flags for all our Services and States.
		Although this system of flags is not complete, I believe it shows sufficient detail to establish a flag system that is dignified, explicit, and could readily gain patriotic following from all Australians.
		The actual colours I would suggest are standard flag [heraldic] colours which may not be correctly delivered over this media.
	newflag.australia.ms (826 words)

	Ausflag - Australian National Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In vexillological terms, the Australian flag is a defaced British blue ensign (the State Ensign of the United Kingdom).
		In the upper hoist (canton) of the flag is the Union Flag (i.e.
		Directly below the Union Flag is a large 7 pointed white star called the Federation Star, representing the federation of the colonies of Australia on 1 January 1901.
	www.ausflag.com.au /flags/aus.html (175 words)

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