For the 2024 Anzac Eve AFL match, Richmond wears the wattle. Their moving video about the history of wattle as a reminder of home for Australian soldiers serving overseas in WW1 is well worth viewing.
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Feb
Feb
Vanessa Alexander was presented with her Golden Wattle Award at the Australian National Botanic Gardens Canberrra today against a backdrop of Australia’s National Floral Emblem – Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha). Read why Vanessa received this award… …
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Jan
Jan
Her Excellency Mrs Hurley stands out as she sets a new trend, wearing a wattle print dress and yellow hat at the 2024 Australia Day Citizenship Ceremony by the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra. Mrs Hurley’s dress complements His Excellency’s Medal of the Order of Australia, that depicts a single wattle blossom, and his […]
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Jan
Jan
Vanessa Alexander received the 2023 award for her truly life changing advocacy and activism on behalf of refugees escaping from Taliban-run Afghanistan. Vanessa has been responsible for saving scores of Afghan women and men, whose lives were at risk following the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021. For more information about why Vanessa has received this award, […]
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Jan
Jan
Wattle pollen is rarely the cause of hayfever or asthma. The persistent myth that it does, dispelled long ago by Australian immunologists, has been perpetuated with the help of self-serving advertising by some antihistamine marketing companies. And yet whenever there is talk of National Wattle Day as an alternative to Australia Day on 26 January, […]
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Jan
Jan
In the lead-up to Australia Day, we once again find ourselves discussing other national days that have the potential to unify all Australians; from the most recent immigrants to the First Australians. Tammy Solonec’s thoughtful analysis published in 2014 hold true today as she examines why some options will not work and why others will: […]
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Jan
Jan
Australia Day 2024 poses more than the usual challenges Terry Fewtrell January 26 poses more than the usual challenges in 2024. Barely 100 days since the failed referendum there is the real prospect of the respective advocates and supporters reigniting a process, the only real outcome of which was community division. There is the risk […]
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Dec
Dec
The Wattle Day Association Inc. celebrated its 25th Anniversary on 16 November 2023. Present and former members of the committees gathered next to Lake Burley Griffin Canberra to toast this happy occasion and cut a special cake. Our aims are to raise awareness of two Australian government proclamations: National Wattle Day is September 1 across […]
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Oct
Oct
Australia’s National Wattle Day on 1 September has been an official national national day since 1992, although it was first celebrated in 1910. Wattle in all its variety symbolises optimism, resilience, renewal, diversity and unity. Australians have celebrated Wattle Day for different reasons over the last century including patriotism, a reminder of home for those […]
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Sep
Sep
National Wattle Day – 1 September every year – is when ‘we share the love we have for this magnificent country and the joy and privilege of being part of it’. Dawn Waterhouse (2020). For more about this national day see…