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.
Today is the 200th anniversary of Wordsworth’s ode to London (luckily he could not afford to ride inside the coach, so got a view worth writing about...).
It is also the 101st anniversary of the raising of the flag of the then shiny-new Australian commonwealth (3 September 1901). As it happens, when it came to making up quizzes for some testing software at work, I whimsically chose the Australian flag as a topic, which meant I ended up drawing my own. The one up at the top right there is the 1901 edition; it is largely similar to the current National flag—can you spot the differences? (See also my entry for 31 May.)