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How many people entered the competition to design the Australian flag?
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The design of the Australian flag was a result of a competition in which 32,823 entries were received but only five almost identical entries were selected.
The five entries came from Ivor Evans, a fourteen-year-old schoolboy from Melbourne; Leslie John Hawkins, a teenager apprenticed to an optician from Sydney; Egbert John Nuttall, an architect from Melbourne; Annie Dorrington, an artist from Perth; and William Stevens, a ship's officer from Auckland, New Zealand.
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∙ 11y agoAnnie Dorrington from Perth
Ivor Evans from Melbourne
Leslie Hawkins from Sydney
Egbert Nuttall from Melbourne
William Stevens from New Zealand
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