Detailed description

This article, ‘The Green and Gold’ provides students with factual information about Australia’s national flower, the golden wattle. It describes the history of the golden wattle as Australia’s national emblem and explains how the colours of the golden wattle have come to represent our country through our national sporting colours. This is a great resource for broadening students’ knowledge of the origins of their own culture and could be used as a foundation for further study into signs and symbols.