Links to other wattle websites and articles
YouTube videos
- David Taylor – Australian National Botanic Gardens ‘Talks Wattle‘ (2018)
Articles about Australia’s National Wattle Day
(1st September every year)
- 1995 Rod Panter ‘Australia’s Wattle Day’ P2H20 (1)
- Rod Panter (updated in 1997)
- Wattle Days from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Ginger Mick by Edwin Ride
- Wattle Nationalism by Libby Robin
- Australia’s national floral emblem byAustralian National Botanic Gardens
Articles about Wattle as a symbol of Australia
- Wattle, Place and Feeling for Country in an Australian Republic (Nov. 2007) by Mark McKenna
- Enjoy Edwin’s insightful articles about wattle as a symbol:
Edwin Ride, watched on by Mark McKenna and Ben Wellings at the Wattle Day Association forum:
‘Wattle and other symbols of Australian identity – their meaning today. 31 August 2007 National Library of Australia.
Australia’s national floral emblem (Acacia pycnantha)
- Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) Floral Emblem of Australia ©R.Panter
Photo: Rod Panter
Australia’s National Colours
- Australia’s national colours – green and gold by the The Australian Government
The colour references are:
- Green: PANTONE®348C
- Gold: PANTONE®116C
Australian acacias (wattles) – Useful websites
- The Genus Acacia
- Article: Introduction to Acacia by Phillip Kodela, Terry Tame, Barry Conn, Ken Hill, Linn Linn Lee
- Atlas of Living Australia – Wattles
- Article: The name Acacia retained for Australian species
- The Acacia Page by Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants (ASGAP)
- Flora of Australia
- World Wide Wattle – conservation, utilization and enjoyment of Australian Acacia species (Wattles)
- WATTLE Acacias of Australia by Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Article: Traditional uses of Australian acacias by Suzette Searle