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As they do look very similar, here are a couple of quick ways of telling the Australian and New Zealand flags apart:
* The Commonwealth Star is present on the Australian flag where the NZ flag has a bankblank field. It's the large, white, seven-pointed star beneath the Union Jack, with the seven points standing for the six states plus the territories.<ref>Interestingly, it used to have six points before Australia acquired the Territory of Papua (now southern Papua New Guinea) in 1906.</ref>
* The design of the Southern Cross varies in a couple of ways:
** 1: The Australian Flag has five stars, the New Zealand Flag only has four (omitting Epsilon Crucis in the middle).
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