Local Flags in Victoria (Australia) (original) (raw)

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• Local Government Areas
  • Ararat Rural City
  • Bayside City Council
  • Benalla Rural City
  • City of Casey
  • City of Frankston
  • Latrobe City Council
  • Shire of Mansfield
  • City of Melbourne
  • Rural City of Mildura
  • Monash City Council
  • Surf Coast Shire
  • City of Whitehorse
  • City of Yarra
• Former Local Governments
  • Brighton
  • Caulfield
  • Sandringham
  • Waverley
• Other local flags
  • Greater Melbourne Ensign
  • Melbourne Harbour Trust
  • Port of Geelong
  • Meeniyan
  • Warrnambool

See also:

• Australia
• Victoria
• Index of Australian flag pages

Greater Melbourne Ensign

[](../images/a/au-vi-gm.gif) image by John Vaughan, 7 Jan 2005

Many years ago I saw a flag in Melbourne, and sort of forgot it, until Australia Day when I saw news footage of a tall ship in Sydney wearing it. It is red, with a blue St. George's Cross fimbriated white, bearing five eight-pointed white stars (one at the centre and one at each arm); a white tall ship in the canton.
Miles Li, 9 Feb 2003

The flag you probably saw was a design by John Vaughan for a "Greater Melbourne" flag - similar to the design concept of his "Greater Sydney" flag.
Ralph Kelly, 10 Feb 2003

Melbourne Harbour Trust

[](../images/a/au~melht.gif) image by Miles Li, 6 Aug 2005

Here is the Blue Ensign of the Melbourne Harbour Trust. This Blue Ensign [with white crossed anchors in the fly] was adopted when the Trust became operational in 1877 (it was established the year before in 1876), but had never been authorized by an Admiralty warrant, according to _Flags of the World_[car61]; it is probably no longer in use (the Trust was renamed Port of Melbourne Authority in 1978).
Miles Li, 6 August 2005

From 1995 to 2003, it was known as the Melbourne Port Corporation and 2003 to date, the Port of Melbourne Corporation.
Sources:
(1) Port Services Act 1995 from Victorian Consolidated Legislation onAustralasian Legal Information Institute
(2) Port of Melbourne Corporation
Colin Dobson, 9 August 2005

Port of Geelong

[](../images/a/au-vi%5Fgg.gif) image by Mason Kaye, 6 Dec 2003

A map on a flag from Mason Kaye's presentation is the Port of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Mason describes this as "A silver or grey map of Australia on a white field." I would add the map is augmented by a large G-shaped double-ended arrow, with the inner end of the arrow pointing to the location of Geelong.
Source: Kevin Harrington
Rob Raeside, 6 Dec 2003