The New Zealand and the Australian flag are identical except for the color of their stars.
And I’ve always thought it appropriate that the Kiwi flag stars are red.
What nonsense. Austrailia’s flag has more stars to start.
Not quite.
The Australian rendition of the constellation Crux (the Southern Cross) is more accurate, and includes five stars instead of the four shown on the New Zealand flag. (Epsilon Crucis is omitted from the New Zealand flag).
Australia's flag also contains the Commonwealth Star under the Union Flag, to symbolise the union of the Australian colonies into a single nation in 1901. New Zealand, incidentally, could have chosen to be part of that Federation, and the Australian Constitution includes language to reflect that.
They are similar flags, and that is partly a reflection of the fact that both the Australian, and New Zealand flag (as well as that of the Colony, later State, of Victoria - the first Victorian flag was almost identical to the current Australian flag) were based on an earlier design for the Anti-Transportation League Flag used througout the Australasian colonies in the early to mid 19th century).
> The New Zealand and the Australian flag are identical except for the color of their stars.
Old Seadog, surely you can count!
The Aussie Flag has two extra stars, and each star has more “points” on it that the NZ Flag.
One of the extra stars is even bigger than all the rest, and is immediately under the Union Jack...
But you knew that, ay. You were just tricking to see if us Young Seadogs would notice (grin!)
Cheers
*DieHard*