Every Australian State and Territory Flag Ranked by Tier

[00:02] keep up momentum while we are doing research and work on some more heavier videos I've seen people rank the state and territory flags of United States and of Canada however I haven't seen anybody do one for Australia so let's do that

[00:17] Western Australia we have the Union Jack in the top left which is kind of mandatory for commonwealth flags of a certain era so we have to suffer that

[00:29] then we have a Black Swan in a yellow Spotlight the Black Swan is a bird native to Western Australia and very notable about it it unambiguously says

[00:41] Western Australia I am going to put you into eight here for aquatic avine South Australia this has the same scheme as Western Australia Union Jack and Native

[00:54] bird in a circle the bird is the white-backed magpie or piping shrike is standing with its back to us looking over its shoulder all flirty-like the

[01:06] over its shoulder all flirty-like the exact subspecies depicted is localized exact subspecies depicted is localized to south Australia and I actually like birds a lot so I'm going to put this one in B tier for bird Tasmania why is there

[01:20] a lion on your flag is it to symbolize England but you have a perfectly good England but you have a perfectly good Union Jack to do that and Tasmania you Union Jack to do that and Tasmania you have so many good animals to put on your

[01:33] flag you could put a Tasmanian tiger on the flag AKA a Tyler scene Okay Tyler scenes are extinct and that might be considered a bad move for a flag however so many other carnivorous marsupials that are native to Tasmania the

[01:49] Tasmanian Devil or is that too diabolical for Van diemen's land how about the eastern qual or the swamp anticlinus so it gets at D tier 4 did

[02:01] not include a desireid New South Wales another lion this time it is crucified on a cross with stars it is derived from the cross of saint George so now we have

[02:14] two redundant symbols of England but this is New South Wales if you're going to include a symbol from the British Isles why not a Welsh Dragon D tier 4

[02:26] did not include a dragon Queensland well there's no Lion on it and I guess if you're going to call something Queensland the crown makes sense but

[02:38] then why this Maltese cross Queensland has a tiny Maltese Community like it is almost impossible to get traditional Maltese foods like kidney or pastez there is this one place that sells them but you have to go on a massive road

[02:53] trip out of the city just to get there and it's been ages since I've had my mouth around a nice warm paste what was I speaking about oh yeah Flags what was I speaking about oh yeah Flags f for failure as a flag Victoria

[03:07] Victoria this is just the Australian flag with the Commonwealth star removed and a crown added it's easy to mistake this for the Australian flag or the New Zealand flag it breaks with the pattern that all the other state flags are set

[03:22] up with the rounds with the little badge on the lower right corner it is okay to be inspired by another person's work and use that inspiration to do something distinct and your own what is not okay is to make Trivial changes and try and

[03:37] pass it off as your own you get an X grade and a meeting with the disciplinary committee for plagiarism Northern Territory in contrast to Northern Territory in contrast to Victoria this is beautiful it has the

[03:51] level of Elegance of approaching a Japanese prefecture flag the Southern Cross on the left for the night start guys the orange red of the soil the radial symmetry of the Stuart desert pea flower this is how flag design should be

[04:08] flower this is how flag design should be done asked here for Stewart desert P Australian Capital territory I really like how it has followed the pattern of the Northern Territory a nice limited palette but it then has a simplified

[04:23] coat of arms on it I'll give points for simplifying the coat of arms but to me I would rather have something that is more simple and derived from the place where

[04:35] simple and derived from the place where it is this act for all practical purposes is Canberra and it surrounds the name Canberra derived from a word in the local Aboriginal language meaning meeting place although it can be

[04:50] meeting place although it can be interpreted as meaning clear cleavage so I want to suggest a flag that has some sort of symbolic representation of Mount gambly and mount I knees which are the two mountains overlooking Canberra and

[05:07] look like breasts so I'm going to classify this one as C for Canberra Christmas Island okay you're ahead already by including a bird of paradise already by including a bird of paradise along with a map of the island I was

[05:21] going to say that the map in the middle seems to be overdoing it but when I remove the map it then looks sort of underdone a good design is one where if you remove any element it becomes less and judged by that standard this is a

[05:37] good design also here is the flag of Papua New Guinea so I like the Thematic line between the two of them I'm going to give you B for being right on the border the Cocos AKA Keeling Islands green and gold are

[05:54] Australia's national colors but a green flag with a crescent moon this is really giving me Islamic Vibes like if you told me this was a flag of it Islamic nation in the southern part of the Malay archipelago I would instantly Believe Me

[06:10] archipelago I would instantly Believe Me Hold on let me know and check something Hold on let me know and check something okay the Cocos islands are the only Australian territory with a majority Muslim population and it is located in

[06:25] the southern part of the Malay archipelago so this flag is directly evocative of the territory's nature s tier for Southeast Asia Norfolk Island tier for Southeast Asia Norfolk Island Norfolk Island did you copy Canada's

[06:40] flag well unlike Victoria you made yours distinct and different enough to be its own thing the Norfolk pine in the middle flanked by bands of green easy to recognize clear symbology I am going to give you a for Abba that's it the flags

[06:56] of every Australian State and territory that has a flag excluding the flagless territories of Jarvis Bay territory which is just an extension of the act the Australian Antarctic territory which is just scientists and Penguins the

[07:10] Coral Sea Islands which is just four people Ashmore and Carter Islands which has no permanent residence just Indonesian fishermen who visit every so often and the herd islands and McDonald's Islands which have absolutely

[07:26] McDonald's Islands which have absolutely nobody there thank you for watching this nobody there thank you for watching this little quick video on Australia's Flags if you want more content of possibly random nature Please Subscribe if you

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