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Australia: Kangaroo Flag

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Boxing Kangaroo

[Boxing kangaroo flag]
by Ralph Kelly



Variant including the Southern Cross

[Boxing Kangaroo flag with southern cross]
by Jorge Candeias

A variation of the Boxing Kangaroo that includes the Southern Cross in its design. I had never seen this before. Is it used?
Jorge Candeias, 01 June 1999


I think I have seen Boxing Kangaroo flags with the SC, I'm not sure. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some manufacturers included it, we love a good Southern Cross down here. Again, there's no official design specifications for the flag so there are bound to be variations, although the one at the FOTW-ws is the commonly seen one. On the subject of usage, I don't know about other Aussies on the list, but I haven't seen a Boxing Kangaroo flag of any kind for a while, maybe the odd one at a sporting match.
Dylan Crawfoot, 01 June 1999

There is another variant with a less cartoonish kangaroo facing the fly with a gold southern cross similar to that on the national flag, in the fly.
Nozomi Kariyasu and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg September 200


National Flag with Kangaroo

During the Olympic Sabre final, I sawa a variant on the Boxing Kangaroo theme. It was the Australian flag with the Southern Cross slightly displaced to the left as to permit the addition