The national colours of Australia are green and gold. The gold colour represents the golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha), which is Australia’s national flower. The uniforms of Australia’s national sports teams are usually green and gold. The golden wattle flower, and the colours green and gold, are also featured on the Coat of arms of Australia . Show
O.K...I have wondered about this for a few years, now, but never thought to ask. Why do Australian sporting teams wear Green and Yellow? Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options...  baron-pierreIVPosted March 13, 2006 baron-pierreIV
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To confuse them with Brazilians so that 1. if they lose, then people will think it's Brazilians who lost; and 2. so the Brazilians will cheer for them because the Brazilians have the best cheering squads on the planet. Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... Sir RolsPosted March 13, 2006 Sir Rols
Posted March 13, 2006 Good question _ and I have absolutely no idea why. S'pose red, white ad blue are far too common anyway. I've heard people referring to the colours as representing gum leaves and wattle, but I expect that's an extrapolation after the event. Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... steviePosted March 13, 2006 stevie
Posted March 13, 2006 Simple, Australia’s national (sporting) colours are green and gold; a few countries national colures don’t match the colours of the flag, the ones I can think of are: Australia – Green and Gold (Yellow) New Zealand – Black and Silver (White) Netherlands – Orange India – Sky Blue Italy – Blue Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... splinterheadPosted March 13, 2006 splinterhead
Posted March 13, 2006 So, there is no historical significance with the color green and gold to Australia? Wierd! Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... ard72Posted March 13, 2006 ard72
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When and why did Australia adopt green and gold as our national sporting colours, when the national flag is another set of colours altogether? Richard Cashman, the Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies from the University of New South Wales answers this question. It has to do with Federation which occured in 1901, before 1901, teams representing Australia wore many different colours, in fact they were a pretty motley lot before 1900. Sometimes they wore the Melbourne Cricket Club colours (red, white and blue), sometimes some other colours like light NSW state blue. Once Federation occured, there was a need to have national colours and one of the problems was that our national flag, the colours there were red, white and blue, and when we played England at cricket, it was inappropriate to play in the same colours. It was also linked with a kind of emerging Australian nationalism to find colours that kind of reflected an Australian identity. So the colours that were chosen were green and to represent the gum tree, and gold to represent wattle. Green was a relatively new colour in sport, because it was difficult for dyers for one reason or another to make jerseys that were green, in the late 19th century. So all the early football clubs don’t have green in their guernseys. The Australian cricket team were the first really to develop green and gold, but they wore sage green, which is a yellowy sort of green. Green and gold were first worn in a Test match in 1902. Green and gold were first worn in the Olympics in 1908, but it was a myrtle green which is a slightly darker green. For the 1908 Olympic Games in London, the British Olympic Council mandated that all nations had to wear their own unique uniforms. For the previous Olympics, the Australian teams didn’t have a uniform at all. They wore civvies in the opening ceremonies and state colours in the actual events. New Zealand had the same problem: the Kiwis chose black as their colour, we chose green and gold. Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... splinterheadPosted March 13, 2006 splinterhead
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Thanks! What's a wattle? Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... Citius Altius FortiusPosted March 13, 2006 Citius Altius Fortius
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... originally the Dutch flag was orange-white-blue - over the years the orange was changed into red... The so called "Princevlag" - the royal family of the Netherlands was the house of Orange-Nassau. Orange is a small town in France and Nassau was a German dukedom, which became a province of Prussia in 1866. Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... Citius Altius FortiusPosted March 13, 2006 Citius Altius Fortius
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When Italy was founded in 1861 the kings of the Piedmont became kings of Italy. Torino the capital of Piedmont became the first capital of Italy. In 1871 Rome became capital... Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... Citius Altius FortiusPosted March 13, 2006 Citius Altius Fortius
Posted March 13, 2006 I thought the green-yellow of Australia comes from the plant, which is on the Australian Coat of arms... Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... micheal_warrenPosted March 13, 2006 micheal_warren
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mmm... interesting Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... baron-pierreIVPosted March 13, 2006 baron-pierreIV
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That's the wattles - an Australian variety of the acacia. Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... HFB-MelbournePosted March 14, 2006 HFB-Melbourne
Posted March 14, 2006 i've always thought it was the wattle, yeah. Another symbolism is the grass and the desert, but I prefer the wattle reason. re-netherlands. They have a saying, 'Oranje boven' which means 'orange on top', about their flag. So even though it is red, orange is still their main colour. Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... Sir RolsPosted March 14, 2006 Sir Rols
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Exactly, that IS wattle, one of our winter blooming flowers in Australia. And as for gum, or eucalyptus, leaves; I must admit, seing a pic of a gum leaf always makes me feel a bit homesick Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... HFB-MelbournePosted March 15, 2006 HFB-Melbourne
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There are eucalypts in portugal if you are desperate... Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... RafaPosted March 15, 2006 Rafa
Posted March 15, 2006 seth efrica is too a country that likes green and gold..our cricket rugby and soccer teams use those and many other sporting codes too... Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options... Sir RolsPosted March 15, 2006 Sir Rols
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Actually, there's eucalypts in heaps of places _ all over Spain, and I remember the first time I was in California, especially around San Diego, there were so many eucalypts that I felt I was back in Oz. |
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