Talk:New South Wales Ambulance

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200px|right|Ambulance Service of New South Wales

Via Condotti (: Palazzo di Malta )

Hello you guys down under, I'm interested about the similarity with the Knights Hospitaller.

Any explanations? --Scriberius (talk) 20:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Queensland

This is an excellent article, would it be possible for someone to construct a similar article for the Queensland Ambulance Service? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.211.190 (talk) 08:15, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Flag and roundel

@Democfest: Just in regards to my removal of the NSW Ambulance flag and replacing the roundel with the whole NSW Ambulance logo, and its following revert, there actually was nothing official or otherwise that I could find to support the current image as the NSW Ambulance flag. On the NSW Ambulance history page, it talks about the roundel, but there is no mention of the flag. Similarly, a Google search for NSW Ambulance flag actually shows that there is not a single reliable source that supports the flag is a thing. The only mention of the flag is this "Flags of the World" page which is not an authoritative site and the latest date stamp for review is 2006 - 15 years ago. There is no acceptable evidence that this flag is actually used.

Similarly with the Roundel, the logo that I replaced it with actually includes the motif, just with the addition of the NSW Ambulance wordmark. This is an improvement than just the Roundel, as the ambulance service is rarely visually identified with just the Roundel and not the complete wordmark. Yes, it would be identifiable in its own regard, but it's much better to include it in the context that most people will be familiar with than randomly by itself. Tim (Talk to me) 09:55, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

The flag is indeed lesser known and rarely appears in documents and marketing material. However, this doesn't make it an unofficial entity altogether. It's still used for ceremonial purposes and occasionally flown outside of ambulance stations. A quick google search finds this (flag used in an official opening of an ambulance station), or this (used in a ceremony), or this (used in a parade)

"the ambulance service is rarely visually identified with just the Roundel and not the complete wordmark"

This isn't true. On the livery of NSW Ambulance's entire fleet, the singular roundel is printed boldly on its own, without any accompanying text. Paramedic uniforms also use the singular, lone roundel. Likewise, on NSW Ambulance's social media pages, the singular roundel is also used without any of the text. I'm not saying the roundel + text variant isn't used, but the roundel on its own is widely used and very much an official identifying aspect of the service. - Democfest (talk) 13:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC) '