Commonwealth Star - Official Name

Official Name

Although the term "Federation Star" is frequently used, the term "Commonwealth Star" is more official. This is because that was the name ascribed to the star by the Australian Government when the Australian flag was adopted and such adoption gazzetted in the official Government gazette.

Read more about this topic:  Commonwealth Star

Famous quotes containing the word official:

    We were that generation called “silent,” but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period’s official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man’s fate.
    Joan Didion (b. 1935)

    ... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.
    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)