Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Why Green & Gold?

In the U.S. our national colors are: red, white & blue.  Which are the same colors as our flag. 

Look at the Australian flag
Yet their national colors are green and gold.
Australia didn't have official national colors until April of 1984.  By then the people had adopted on there own green and gold.  Their national sports colors had been green and gold for quite sometime, and these colors had now been "associated with the achievements of many great Australian sports men and women."  But it is also said that it is the green and gold of Australia's landscape, which is covered with many species of wattle, which "won the day". 


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