Oz

OZBIRD.COM
Australiana, Ozefacts, Books, Prints, Aboriginal Artefacts, Expo88 Souvenirs, Cards, Calendars, Anzac Biscuits, Vegemite, Oz Culture, Olympic Coins and Stamps, Australian Flags etc
Birds Down Under, Box 425 P.O. Nanango Qld 4615 Australia.
est 1995 ph 61 7 4163 1605 rebecca@ozbird.com

Flag of Australia


	..
	..
"Old Fly" original form as flown at Newstead House, Brisbane	Flag of Queensland
..
	.
Advance Australia Fair
	.
National Flag Day
Waltzing Matilda
The Southern Cross
Southern Cross Visitors' Book
To buy your Flags and Flag Memorabilia go here
Secure ecommerce store now open
Digger greeting cards, slouch hats, flags, spoons, stickers and heaps of other stuff you will love.. Buy Australian Made from Australia.

..
..
..
..
	General
	The Australian National Flag takes precedence over all other flags
	.
	When displaying a flag outside a State Government building with only one flagpole, the State Flag should be flown.
	.
	When a flag is to be flown outside other buildings with one flagpole, the choice between the Australian National Flag and the State Flag is discretionary.
	.
	When there is more than one flagpole, the State Flag may be flown with the Australian National Flag
	.
	When displayed with the State Flag, other State Flags, house flags or club pennants, the Australian National Flag should be flown on the left of the observer facing the flags, or at each end of a line of flags. 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. It is desirable to avoid flying the Australian National Flag and State or house Flags on the same rope (halyard). If this is unavoidable, the Australian National Flag should always be at the peak.

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.

............

Disposal of the Flag

When a flag becomes dilapidated and is no longer in a suitable condition for use, it should be destroyed in a dignified way by burning in secret.

.Days of National Commemoration

For days of national commemoration that regularly fall on public holidays, the Australian Flag will be flown from General Post Offices and other principal Commonwealth Buildings in State capitals and Chief Post Offices in the country centres where the population exceeds 10000.

animflag.gif (12744 bytes)

1 January			Anniversary of the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia
.			.
26 January			Australia Day
			.
Second Monday March			Commonwealth Day
			........
25 April			Anzac Day (flags to be flown at half mast till noon, then at peak till close of business
			.....
June			Official birthday of the Sovereign (date proclaimed annually)
			.
24 October			United Nations Day
			..
11 November			Remembrance Day (Flags should be flown at the peak from 8.00a.m. until midday then half mast.
			..
			Half Mast for Mourning
			.
			The National Flag may be flown on all working days during normal working hours. They may be displayed at night, but only when they are properly illuminated.

Storage of Flag

Unless it is properly illuminated, the Flag should not be displayed at night, but should be lowered no later than sunset and stored in a proper manner

Folding the Flag

To start, the flag must be upside down, - flat.

Fold lengthways once, then once again

Bring the two ends together

Now concertina by folding backwards and forwards…

Until it is neatly bundled

It is kept bundled by winding the rope under itself

Desecration of our National Flag

One of the aims of the Australian National Flag Association of Queensland (Inc) is to protect our Flag from change, insult, disrespect, neglect, damage or destruction. This is not covered by the Flags Act (1953)

...

Dignity of the Flag

......

"The Australian National Flag should be displayed only in a manner befitting the national emblem; it should not be subjected to indignity or displayed in a position inferior to any other flag or ensign. The Flag normally takes precedence over all other national flags when flown in Australia. It should always be flown aloft and free and should not be allowed to fall to or lie upon the ground.

...

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.

...

The National Flag and representations of it should always be shown, represented or used in a dignified manner. It should not be defaced by way of printing or illustrations, or masked by other objects and all symbolic parts of the Flag should be identifiable."

...

A common offence pointed out to us, frequently displayed on television, is to fly the Flag back to front. When it is displayed vertically, the Union Jack must be in the top left-hand corner as viewed from the front. Another mistake is to drape the Flag over a table, especially on school Speech nights.

...

Australian Flag which flew over Australian Corps HQ during the 1918 campaign.

Flag used by Chaplain R M Legate at burial services in the Middle East and France 1914-1918.

Australian Flag sent to 15th Infantry Brigade by General Birdwood on 8 August 1918 asking that it be flown from the Church of Harbonnieres, the final objective of the Brigade. The CO of the Battalion promised his men that the first to reach the village would have the honour of hoisting the Flag. This was won by Pte Forty, D Coy.

Australian Flag which hung in the Amiens Cathedral for 46 years. It was replaced by a new Australian Flag by the 19th Btn Association during a pilgrimage there in 1971.

Australian Flag that was flying on the Residency at Darwin on the occasion of the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942 - two of the stars have been shot at.

Australian Flag originally belonged to NGVR in 1942 but subsequently carried by Padre Sherwin in all battles fought by 2/7 Btn at Wau and in the Battle of the Ridges - the Flag was hoisted over Salamaua by Padre Sherwin on 16 September 1943.

Australian Flag flown by No 464 Squadron RAAF during the height of its operational career against Germany.

Australian Flag (Blue Ensign) which originally belonged to HMAS Sydney in World War 1. HMAS Sydney destroyed the German raider SMS Emden which sunk over 20 merchant ships, destroyed an oil plant and a Russian destroyer during the first few months of the war.

Australian Flag raised by Signallers of Company HQ, C Coy, 3 RAR on hill 323 18 March 1968 - top of this very high hill. Shortly after Btn HQ received a request from a US Warship lying off the coast for clearance to shoot at a VC flag which had just been raised atop hill 323!

Secure ecommerce store now open

.
	"Shall I live to be a hundred?" I ask myself each day.
	"Will the powers that be discard me, and cast my life away?"
	.
	"I've watched the birth of nation, I've flown at Anzac Cove,
	And proudly have I fluttered, As men in battle strove."
	.
	"Full many a beir I've covered, Some long-dead VIP,
	In slow procession to the grave, We marched so solemnly."
	.
	"How oft I've heard the bugle call, to herald in the day!
	How proud my head I've held aloft, Till evening furled away."
	.
	To me there seems no future, My thoughts live in the past,
	For now, they plan to change me, Raise another to the mast."
	.
	"And so I feel an outcast, The midden heap for me,
	Or languish in museum, For those unborn to see".

..