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Australia Flags – Australian Flag, Aboriginal Flag & State Flags
Australia flags for Australia Day, ANZAC Day and the Ashes. Fly the Australian flag in 3x2, 5x3 or 8x5ft from a garden pole, hang Australia bunting across the bar and wave Australia hand flags at the ground. The Aboriginal flag, the Torres Strait Islander flag, every state and territory and the Boxing Kangaroo are here too.
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Australia flags: the Australian flag explained
The Australian flag is a defaced Blue Ensign: a Union Jack in the canton, the seven-pointed Commonwealth Star beneath it and the five stars of the Southern Cross in the fly, on royal blue in a 1:2 proportion. The design came out of a public competition held in 1901, the year of Federation, which drew 32,823 entries and was shared between five near-identical winners; the Commonwealth Star gained its seventh point in 1908 to stand for the territories alongside the six states, and the Flags Act 1953 confirmed the blue version as the national flag. Our Australia flag is printed with the stars at their correct sizes, the Union Jack the right way round and the deep blue of the official specification, so it reads as Australian rather than New Zealand.
Beside it sit the Australian Red Ensign, the Australian White Ensign flown by the Royal Australian Navy since 1967, the RAAF ensign and the Royal Standard of Australia, plus the Boxing Kangaroo that has followed Australian teams since the 1983 America’s Cup.
Australia Day, ANZAC Day, the Ashes and the Wallabies
Australia Day on 26 January brings the expat bars and backpacker hostels of London, Manchester and Edinburgh out in green and gold, and ANZAC Day on 25 April sees Australian and New Zealand flags side by side at dawn services, the Gallipoli commemorations and RSL branches across Britain. Sport fills the rest of the calendar: an Ashes series, the Wallabies’ autumn tests, and the Kangaroos in rugby league.
Which size Australian flag?
For a telescopic garden pole or a pub frontage, 5ft x 3ft is the one. 3ft x 2ft fits a short pole, a window or a child’s bedroom, and 8ft x 5ft is the choice for a sports-club mast, a hostel roof or a hall backdrop. Each size has metal eyelets, and the DuraFlag grade can be ordered with rope and toggle or clips.
Flagtex, Flagtex Nylon and DuraFlag
The standard Australia flag is Flagtex, a woven polyester printed right through so the Southern Cross shows on both faces and priced for parties and one-off events. The Australia Nylon flag is the mid grade, with a tighter knit and a sleeve for regular outdoor use, and the Australia DuraFlag is the flag for a pole that is never empty: 150gsm knitted polyester, double-stitched hems, a reinforced header and UV-fast inks, supplied with rope and toggle or clips in 5x3, 8x5ft and a two-yard size. A White Ensign DuraFlag and a Boxing Kangaroo DuraFlag sit alongside.
Australia bunting
Australia bunting prints the national flag on every pennant on weatherproof polyester sewn to a strong tape, in rectangle or triangle cut, so one run can cross a beer garden on Australia Day and come down a fortnight later. Boxing Kangaroo bunting and Australian Red Ensign bunting are made the same way, and every state and territory has a bunting of its own.
Hand flags, table flags and windsocks
Australia hand flags on wooden sticks come singly or in packs for Ashes queues, school assemblies and citizenship ceremonies. The Australia table flag with base is the one for a desk, a travel agent’s counter or an Australian-themed restaurant, with a satin Australia table flag on a chrome base for boardrooms, and the Australia windsock adds movement on a campsite or garden pole.
Aboriginal flag, Torres Strait Islander flag and the states
The Aboriginal flag designed by Harold Thomas in 1971 — black for the people, red for the earth, a yellow sun — has been an official flag of Australia since 1995, and the Commonwealth bought its copyright in January 2022. The Torres Strait Islander flag of 1992 carries a white dhari headdress and five-pointed star on green, blue and black. All eight states and mainland territories are in the Australian state flags range — New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory — together with the island flags of Norfolk, Christmas, Cocos (Keeling) and Lord Howe and the Eureka flag of the 1854 stockade, most with bunting, hand flags and table flags to match. New Zealand, Fiji and the Pacific nations are under world flags.
Australian flag FAQs
What does the Australian flag look like?
A royal blue flag twice as long as it is high, with the Union Jack in the top corner nearest the pole, a large seven-pointed star beneath it and the five stars of the Southern Cross on the outer half.
What do the stars on the Australian flag mean?
The Commonwealth Star has seven points, one for each of the six states and one for the territories. The Southern Cross is the constellation seen across the southern sky; four of its stars have seven points and the smallest has five.
How is the Australian flag different from the New Zealand flag?
New Zealand shows four red five-pointed stars with white borders and no Commonwealth Star. Australia has six white stars, including the large one under the Union Jack.
What size Australia flag for a 20ft telescopic pole?
5ft x 3ft. Our flags are cut to the standard UK 5:3 shape rather than Australia’s official 1:2, so the same pole kit fits every national flag in the range.
Is the Aboriginal flag free to fly?
Yes. Since January 2022 the Commonwealth of Australia has held the copyright and made the design free for anyone to reproduce, and it has been an official flag of Australia under the Flags Act since 1995.
When is the Australian flag flown?
Australia Day on 26 January, ANZAC Day on 25 April and Australian National Flag Day on 3 September, and for expats whenever the cricket or the rugby is on.
Which flag does the Royal Australian Navy fly?
The Australian White Ensign: a white field with the Southern Cross and Commonwealth Star in blue and a Union Jack canton, adopted on 1 March 1967. Before that the Navy flew the British White Ensign.
Australian regional flags in other formats
Australia Australian Regions (hand flags) · Australia Australian Regions (table flags)