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Feb 01 2009

What Are Australia’s National Colors?

Published by Lis Sowerbutts at 1:27 pm under Australia History Edit This

Australia’s National colors are green and gold - you may have noticed I have just added the colors to this blog - just so you know!

australian-wattleThe colors were only adopted in 1984 and do not at all reflect the Australian flag  - which is  red, white and blue.  Instead  the colors of the wattle were adopted as reflecting the land. Actually the land is more red than green - the wattle is a common plant in the Australian bush.

Australia’s national sporting teams normally wear the green and gold in their sporting teams including the Australia cricket team (one day cricket), test teams wear white as is required, the Kangaroos (rugby league), the Socceroos (football (soccer)).

South Africa also wear green and gold for Rugby Union too so the Wallabies where a gold jumper with green lettering.

Australia car colors

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6 Responses to “What Are Australia’s National Colors?”

  1. # chameleonsdreamon 01 Feb 2009 at 10:20 pm edit this

    Just wanted to note Nicely done! on the theme colors. I like it!

  2. # Lis Sowerbuttson 01 Feb 2009 at 10:28 pm edit this

    Thanks - design is definietly not one of my strengths! Luckily I can usually get away with just using someone else’s theme - having to choose colours was scary!

  3. # hospitaleraon 02 Feb 2009 at 7:01 pm edit this

    Some color/ design feedback for you ;-) I hope you don’t mind. The green is far too neon, try #017C3B instead, the background color is great but for the tabs/ accents/ etc I would suggest #EAC213 Hope that helps, SY

  4. # Lis Sowerbuttson 05 Feb 2009 at 10:58 am edit this

    That is brilliant SY - thanks so much - I wasn’t upset - I just didn’t notice your comment - I have done as told and it looks heaps better! Thank you!

  5. # hospitaleraon 05 Feb 2009 at 8:16 pm edit this

    Glad I could help! Have a look at this nifty tool http://colorcop.net/ it allows you to “pick” colors from a web site or image and “Translates” them into hex/rgb etc numbers ;-) SY

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