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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 wouldn′t reject it out of hand, but I could make a decision to say no.
A dark blue flag with thin centered horizontal white wavy stripe overlapping the bottom of a yellow sun disc with background-color fimbriation showing where these meet and four red teepees with white fimbriation and poles set in a row on the bottom half; yellow upright five-pointed star on the upper fly.
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
Flag of Agin-Buryat Okrug; Ainu flag; Flag of Åland; Flag of the Altai Republic; Flag of Amazonas (Colombian department) Flag of American Samoa; Aramean-Syriac flag; Flag of the Aromanians; Arrano beltza; Flag of the Republic of Artsakh; Assyrian flag; Flag of Asturias; Australian Aboriginal flag; Flag of the Autonomous Region in Muslim ...
The flag of Argentinian Mapuche people was created in 1987 by Julio Antieco, and ratified in 1991 by the 1st Assembly of Aboriginal Leaders and Communities in Trevelin. The Chubut Province declares this symbol as "official emblem of the aboriginal communities of the province" (Act 4,072). Their colors and symbolism are: Blue: the sky
The Torres Strait Islander flag is the official flag of the Torres Strait Islanders, an Indigenous people of Australia. It was designed in 1992 by Bernard Namok, who won a local competition held by the Islands Coordinating Council. It was recognised by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in June 1992.
Like the concept of a state's national flag itself, that of an "ethnic flag" is modern, first arising in the late 19th century; strictly speaking, the national flags of nation states are themselves "ethnic flags", and often so used by ethnic minorities in neighbouring states, especially in the context of irredentism (e.g. the flag of the Republic of Albania used as an "ethnic Albanian flag" by ...
The term "Aborigine" was coined by white settlers in Australia in the 1830s from ab origine, a Latin phrase meaning "from the very beginning". [2] [3]Until the 1980s, the sole legal and administrative criterion for inclusion in this category was race, classified according to visible physical characteristics or known ancestors.