 The piping shrike first appeared on the Governor's ensign in 1903, and was also on the State Badge which was proclaimed in 1904.The original reports credited it to H. P. Gill who was the director of the School of Arts, with some input and critique from the Governor General Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson.The nephew of Robert Craig of the School of Arts claims that he was solely responsible for the original design.