State Badge of South
Australia
The State
Badge was notified by a proclamation gazetted on the 14th January, 1904.
This proclamation declares the Badge of the State to be a Piping Shrike,
the original drawing of which was carried out by Robert Craig of the
School of Arts in 1904 and a later drawing in 1910 by Harry P.Gill who
was the Principal of the School of Arts.
The Piping Shrike or White Backed Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen leuconota) is found in open timbered country in South Eastern Australia and has been introduced into New Zealand. The State Badge is described heraldically as the Rising Sun Or (gold) with thereon an Australian Piping Shrike displayed proper, and standing on a staff of a gum tree raguly, gules (red) and vert (green).
The State Badge (Piping Shrike) is the official badge of the South Australian Government. The symbol is for official use by the Government of South Australia only. Under the Unauthorised Document Act 1916 no person can print, publish or manufacture the symbol without permission. The symbol cannot be used for commercial purposes.Contact should be made with the Protocol Office in regard to the official use of the State Badge.
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