The government decided on having only one design, and Charlie Frazer, then postmaster-general, inspired the basic outline of the new design. Ī design completion was announced in 1911, and several designs, including royal profiles were chosen. There was a considerable amount of opposition to any inclusion of British royal symbols or profiles. Although the delay between federation and the first stamps had several causes, one of the major reasons was political wrangling regarding the design. This was the first definitive stamp with the sole nomenclature “Australia”. This competition attracted over one thousand entries.Ħd "kangaroo & map", used at Woolloongabba, Queenslandįor most, Australian philately proper begins on 2 January 1913, 12 years after federation, with the issue of a red 1d (one penny) Kangaroo and Map, the design of which was adopted in part from the entry that won the Stamp Design Competition.
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In the same year, the Postmaster-General's Department held a stamp design competition for a uniform series of Commonwealth postage stamps. One penny postcards and lettercards also appeared in 1911. One penny became the uniform domestic postage rate. Postal rates became uniform between the new states on because of the extension of the United Kingdom domestic postal rate of 1d per half ounce (Imperial Penny Post) to Australia as a member of the British Empire. The first of these, the design of which was based on the current New South Wales postage due stamps, was issued in July 1902. But there was no hindrance in respect to a Postage Due series. These stamps continued to be valid for postage until 14 February 1966 when the introduction of decimal currency invalidated all stamps bearing the earlier currency.Ĭircumstances precluded the immediate issue of a uniform Commonwealth postage stamp. Some of these stamps continued to be used for some time following the introduction in 1913 of the Commonwealth's uniform postage stamp series. These stamps continued to be valid and became de facto Commonwealth stamps. The Commonwealth created the Postmaster-General's Department on 1 March 1901, which took over all the colonial mail systems and the then-current colony stamps.
Section 51(v) of the Australian Constitution empowered the Commonwealth to make laws in respect of “postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services”. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania (1853), Western Australia (1854), South Australia (1855) and Queensland (1860). This is an overview of the postage stamps and postal history of Australia.
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