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Who Created The Australian Flag?

There were five people who contributed to the design of our national flag. They all won a design competition as their entries were almost identical and so they shared the £200 prize money. The winners were announced and the flag flown for the first time in 1901.

The five winners were:

• Ivor Evans, a 14 year old schoolboy from Melbourne,
• Leslie Hawkins, a teenager from Sydney,
• Egbert Nuttall, an architect from Melbourne,
• Annie Dorrington, an artist from Perth
• William Stevens, a ship's officer from Auckland, New Zealand.