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[Postcard with a heading in ornate red capital letters: 'GREETINGS FROM AUSTRALIA'.]
[Most of the postcard is taken up by a watercolour painting of six women in white dresses riding large black swans on the water. Sydney Heads can be seen in the background. Four of the women carry spears with flags on them, and two carry small shields with coats of arms displayed on them. The two women at the front carry spears with the coats of arms of New South Wales and Victoria. The two women in the middle carry shields with the coats of arms of Queensland and Western Australia. The two women at the back carry spears with the coats of arms of South Australia and Tasmania.]
[To the right of this image, there is a painting of a group of Australian flowers, including a waratah.]
[In the top left corner of the postcard, there is a small blue flag. The union jack takes up most of the space on the flag, with a seven-pointed star to the right of it, and another one below it.]
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The new states are represented as maidens aboard a flotilla of black swans outside Sydney Heads. Floral emblems of the States adorn the foreground, and a rendering of the Australian flag appears in the opposite corner.
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