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Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring Raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the
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Prior to independence, the Australian administration proposed a vertical tricolour flag with blue, yellow and green bands, along with the bird of paradise and southern cross, designed by
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Red and black have long been traditional colours of many Papua New Guinean tribes. Black-white-red was the colour of the
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is silhouetted. The design was chosen through a nationwide design competition in early 1971. The winning designer was
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flag, which had colonised New Guinea prior to 1918. The bird-of-paradise is also found on the
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A white flag with the national flag of Papua New Guinea in the canton
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of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.
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