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“Another 
Aussie failed State”, a post in the blog Living Timorously 
(reported by J. Patrick Fischer, 08 Apr 2007), 
shows the East Timorese national flag with the Southern 
Cross in Australian-style instead of the usual single 
five-pointed star. Though the text mentions a 1974-1975 party ADITLA 
— Associação Democrática para a Integração de Timor Leste na 
Austrália (Democratic Association for the Integration of East Timor 
into Australia), this is surely not its flag: The current national flag was 
designed in late 1975 and was then (and long till 
1999 and even later) perceived as the flag of a 
Fretilin-sponsored state project, not the 
East Timorese flag. (See alternatives.)
António Martins, 09 September 2007