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TRANSCRIPT 3

To: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>, <>
Subject: TRANSCRIPT 3
From: "Denis Wilson" <>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:39:28 +1000
Dear Geoffrey (Pls refer my comments on to your Committee).
 
I have held off commenting until now, in the hope that you might realise the apparent error in your "draft".
Alas, my forbearance has its limits.
 
I am concerned that your Bluebell is not the ACT Floral Emblem (Wahlenbergia gloriosa).
 
That species is a much darker blue than yours appears to be.
 
I recall this because, by accident, (more or less) I sat in on the meeting when the Hon Michael Hodgman QC chose that plant as the ACT Floral Emblem.
I recall that he was impressed with the name "Royal Bluebell" and its colour "royal blue".
The other options put before the Minister included something like a Ragwort or Fleabane.
So the name appealed (greatly) to the Minister, whose Royalist tendencies were well known, even in those gloriously pre-Rebublican days of Federal rule of the ACT.
(Be still my beating heart!)
 
You will find suitable images to correct your apparent error, in the linked website, courtesy of ASGAP.
As this is obviously going to be a formal postage stamp issue, the Australia Post Legal team can surely handle the necessary copyright issues.
 
Cheers
 
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