Australian Capital Territory (Australia)

Last modified: 2005-08-19 by jonathan dixon
Keywords: australia | australian capital territory | pelican | castle | canberra | bluebell |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

from Christian Brothers College

• Australian Capital Territory flag
• Flag change proposals
  • Bluebell proposals
  • Australian National Flag in canton proposal
• Former Canberra flag

See also:

• Australia
• Australia Subdivisions
• ACT Chief Minister's Department page on Flags and Emblems

Australian Capital Territory flag

This passage is from Carol A. Foley's The Australian Flag [fol96]:

"The ACT did not have an official flag prior to the adoption of its new flag by the ACT Legislative Assembly on 25 March 1993. The reason for its long 'flaglessness' is simple: it was thought by a number of successive Commonwealth Governments that the ACT should represent all Australia and that the adoption of a specific territorial flag might necessarily detract from its federal representativeness. However, the lack of an identifying flag caused a number of problems. For example, the people of the ACT were singular in not having a unifying official community symbol and this also meant that their sporting teams were not readily identifiable. It was also thought that a flag would give the community as a whole a higher profile.

The ACT achieved self-government only relatively recently, pursuant to t