2 entries tagged ausflag

Patriotism!

As we come up to the Jubilee weekend, I have dug out my little Australian flag in case any flag-waving is required. Typing Australian Flag in to Google finds Ausflag, a campaign for a new Australian flag (I quite like this one), and The Australian National Flag Association, dedicated to celebrating Flag Day (the anniversary of the first hoisting of the Australian flag on 3 September 1901). I had a look and found a cool new New Zealand flag as well.

Australian flag variation

I already mentioned Ausflag and their mission to persuade the powers that be that retaining the British Union flag in the Australian flag is a little out of date given that Australia has been an independent nation since 1986. They ran a competition for a replacement flag with results announced in 2000. I have added my version of Franck Gentil's competition winner to my SVG-based flag collection. This is it in PNG format: Read more