Coat of Arms

In today’s lesson, we are studying the Australian Coat of Arms, that features, as you will have noticed, a kangaroo and an emu supporting a shield. The shield is divided into six portions, each illustrating one of the six Australian states. The Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, not being yer actual ‘states’, are not represented by any pictures, but their inclusion (and any further inclusions*) is supposedly implied by the seven pointed star above the shield (I can just imagine the marketing meeting where they spun that one up…).

In case you ever visit Australia, and find yourself in the bathroom of a pub using a ‘Turbo’ brand hand dryer, this is not the Australian Coat of Arms (if can’t quite make it out, the kangaroo is drying his paws while the emu looks on):

Coat of Dry Hands

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*I swear, with Little Johnny Howard at the helm it wouldn’t have been too long before we were launching missiles on New Zealand or somewhere (in order to overthrow some despotic dictator, of course).

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