Australia’s Nation Brand Advisory Council approves gold wattle logo to replace orange boomerang logo. A new logo developed to promote Australia to the world has been criticised as confusing by advertising experts who say the wattle design looks more like a luxury perfume label than an official national logo.
A kangaroo design was rejected in favour of an abstract* gold wattle design in a report by Australia’s Nation Brand Advisory Council and accepted by Trade Minister Simon Birmingham. Several versions of the new logo will be made available to be used by business, industry and government agencies, replacing the current one with two orange boomerangs that form a rough outline of Australia.
The council of business and cultural leaders said in their report the kangaroo only emphasised what foreigners already knew about Australia, while we should be pushing our other lesser known assets like technology and education. “It needs to be clear what it is, to me it looks like expensive gifts, like a new perfume, it doesn’t look like business to me,” she said. “$10m for that?
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Full-on Aussies - 3 (History) Australia's Flag - Classroom - BTN. IVOR: Oh come on Ivor, think.
JACK: The year was 1901, Ivor Williams Evans sat down to design the Australian flag. IVOR: Well I could use blue because it's calming, the Southern Cross because it's darling and I definitely want to use the Union Jack. JACK: Ivor was 13 at the time. IVOR: What.? Oh, not again. JACK: That's better, right where were we. Ivor's flag design featured the Union Jack, the national flag of the United Kingdom.
These days the flag is everywhere from here, to here and here. Plus, there's the fact that Australia's flag looks like a lot like the flags of other countries and territories. KID 1: I think it's a really good like design and if it was changed I don't think that would be a very good idea because it's been there for so long. KID 2: We've just had it for so long and people see it, they know that it's our flag and it represents us. KID 4: I would combine the Aboriginal flag with it, so it represents the whole of Australia. Abrahams, Esther.
Abrahams, Esther. Esther Abrahams arrived in Sydney in 1788 on board the Lady Penrhyn, one of the ships of the First Fleet.
Sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing 24 yards of black silk lace, she brought her daughter Rosanna, who had been born in prison, with her to Sydney. On the voyage she established a liaison with Lieutenant George Johnston, and on arrival at Sydney Cove took on the role of his de facto wife and bore him three sons and four daughters. The Johnstons were prominent in colonial society. George became Major George Johnston and received benefits from successive governors, acquiring significant land holdings. Like Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther managed her husband's affairs when he returned to England, first under arrest for illegally trading in spirits in 1800 and again when he was court-martialled in England for his part in the Rebellion against Governor Bligh (1809–1813).
ABC3 - My Place. Before Time 1 - My Place. Signing the Armistice: 06/11/2018, Behind the News. After 4 years of fighting an armistice was finally declared on the 11th of November 1918.
But how was such a tricky agreement negotiated? It wasn't a fighter plane, a tank, or a battleship that spelled the end of the First World War. But a signature, in a train carriage, made on November 11, 1918. By the second half of 1918, Germany was in big trouble. It had defeated Russia, but it was losing in France, German forces were being pushed back, and its leaders no longer believed they could win the war. One by one, Germany's allies, including Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary, pulled out of the fighting, and signed formal agreements to stop the conflict. In the coming years, Germany would be forced to sign more treaties including the Treaty of Versailles, which officially blamed Germany for the war, and forced it to make big repayments to the Allies. News spread that war was over. Remembrance Day History: 06/11/2018, Behind the News. These days we all know the 11th of November is Remembrance Day.
But it hasn't always been called that and the way it's commemorated has also changed over the years. The community of Bridgewater in the Adelaide Hills has never had a proper war memorial. So, these kids and others from the local school, decided to design and build a new one. After five long years of work it's now nearly finished. REPORTER: Can you tell me what's left to do? IZZY: There's going to be a boomerang with a rising sun at the back, and a sign with Remember on it down the front and some fences and pavers. 13 Nov 1918 - REJOICINGS IN AUSTRALIA.