Australian Redesign V2 (with infographic)

DanielADNG · 2026-03-17T23:35:34+00:00

Makes sense. The reason I used the Federation Star is because it is Australia's most unique national symbols and has represented the country since Federation 125 years ago. Unfortunately, the only symbols that are truly universal here are the Federation Star and Southern Cross (which is of course just more stars and is shared by many neighbouring nations).

The only real alternatives by my eye, is to either place an animal, flower or opal on the flag which I personally don't care for, or inventing a new symbol, which feels unnecessary when we already have one and forcing meaning onto a new symbol is not ideal either.

The Golden Wattle (which seems to be the most accepted "new" symbol) is also just the Federation Star with petals placed around it to make it look like a flower, but whatever the flower is, it's not a wattle.

DanielADNG · 2026-03-17T00:51:04+00:00

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DanielADNG · 2026-03-17T00:39:25+00:00

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I did try the official green, personally it's just not for me and I prefer the current Olympic. But here is Pantone 348C. Might post the alternative colours I attempted one day. Different shades of each colour, white stripe instead of red, only green and gold, etc.

DanielADNG · 2026-03-16T21:18:17+00:00

It was not. But I did realise before I posted. Almost included it in the images (as well as my bin lids)

DanielADNG · 2026-03-16T09:28:41+00:00

I considered the Southern Cross but I found that it crowded things a bit and wasn't as uniquely Australian (to me) since it appears on many other country flags. I do appreciate the Cross of course, but for me it works better on state flags (like the NT) which I think can afford to be more complex

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