Australia′s hail has officially changed commonly. Our present banner dates from just 1953. Coming up next is a rundown of the progressions to Australia′s national banner since 1770. For an increasingly total history of Australia′s national banner, read our article History of the Australian Flags.

The Union Flag 1770

Australia′s first flag was the Union Flag (used by Captain Cook in 1770 and Captain Phillip in 1788).

Then came the Union Flag (also known as the Union Jack) with the inclusion of the flag of St Patrick when Ireland joined the Union in 1801.

From the center of the nineteenth century, a developing Australian patriotism delivered numerous informal banners – every one of them fusing the group of stars of the Southern Cross (Crux Australis), which was generally acknowledged as the image of the Great South Land.

In 1901 the new Federal Government composed an opposition for another banner – one for “authority” or Government use, and one for the “dealer” benefit (i.e. subjects adrift). The judging and endorsement process were to such an extent that just a British Ensign with an identification illustrative of Australia was probably going to be a champ.

The triumphant plan for the dealer hail depended on the British Red Ensign, and the triumphant structure for the official Government signal depended on the British Blue Ensign.

The King approved slightly altered designs in 1903, and the Union Jack was to remain the senior flag to both designs.

Then, in 1909 a seventh point was added to the Federation star.

For a long time there was extensive misconstruing in Australia and in different nations with respect to the utilization of the Australian banners. Amid World War II, Prime Minister Menzies issued a mandate that there ought to be no limitation on the flying of the “District Blue Ensign”, and Prime Minister Chifley gave his help to that see in 1947. In 1953, by methods for a Commonwealth Act of Parliament – the Flags Act 1953 – the “English Blue Ensign” was announced the national banner. Just from that point forward has it had status over the Union Jack.