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A number of Aboriginal flags at an Invasion Day Protest in Melbourne, 2019. The Aboriginal flag is often included in various proposed designs to replace the current Australian Flag. One proposal has been to substitute the Union Flag, located in the canton of the Australian Flag, with the Aboriginal flag. Harold Thomas said of this idea: "I ...
Australian Aboriginal flag first flown in public (designed by Harold Thomas, the flag was flown in Victoria Square, Adelaide on National Aborigines Day, 12 July). [71] 1972. First Indigenous Australian theatre company formed: "Nindethana" (founded by Jack Charles and Bob Maza). [72]
He said he hoped that the democratisation of the flag would "provide comfort to all Aboriginal people and Australians to use the flag". [5] In February 2022 it was revealed that the Morrison government paid A$13.75 m to Thomas to assume copyright. it also paid A$6.3 m to two non-Indigenous businesses who held licences to use the flag.
Burnum Burnum became involved in Australian Indigenous rights activism while attending the University of Tasmania in the late 1960s. He continued his activism after becoming a Bahá’í, and successfully campaigned for the skeleton of the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, Truganini, to be removed from display in the Museum of Tasmania.
The Aboriginal flag has been recognised as an official flag of Australia since 1995, flown from government buildings and embraced by sporting clubs. ... Australia Day celebrations, marked with a ...
According to a press release from the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Ken Wyatt: "All Australians can now put the Aboriginal Flag on apparel such as sports jerseys and shirts, it can be painted on sports grounds, included on websites, in paintings and other artworks, used digitally and in any other medium without having to ask for permission ...
Flag of the governor-general of Australia: Flag of the governor general of Australia: 1953 Indigenous flag Australian Aboriginal flag: Australian Aboriginal Flag: 14 July 1995 [3] [4] Indigenous flag Torres Strait Islander flag: 14 July 1995 [5] National anthem: Advance Australia Fair "Advance Australia Fair" 19 April 1984 [6] Royal anthem: God ...
I have made the change to "The Australian Aboriginal flag (officially Australian Aboriginal Flag)", with a hidden remark that the lower-case "flag" is the result of discussion and is not to be changed. Errantios 11:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC). Some further discussion has vanished, perhaps because I didn't put the above into a new section.