The flag dates from 1876, with minor variations, and the badge was designed by William Hemmant, the Colonial Secretary and Treasurer of Queensland in 1876.
The current State Badge was approved on 29 November 1876 by the Governor of Queensland.
The badge is officially described as “On a Roundel Argent a Maltese Cross Azure surmounted with a Royal Crown”.
[1] It depicts Queensland's primary industries in the 19th century with a sheaf of wheat, the heads of a bull and a ram, and a column of gold rising from a heap of quartz.
In 1977, Queen Elizabeth II granted the supporting animals, the brolga and the red deer.
[4] Since August 2012, the Queensland coat of arms has been used as the state government's corporate logo.
[15] The then Premier of Queensland, Peter Beattie, "officially approved" the tartan in May 2000,[16] and the registration notes in its entry in the Scottish Register of Tartans (SRT) as a district tartan declare that the then Governor of Queensland recorded its threadcount in the Lyon Court Books (writs section) on 6 February 2001.