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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.
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 ...
On 14 July 1995 the flag was made an official "Flag of Australia". [11] [2] In 1997 Thomas was involved in a high-profile case in the Federal Court and the High Court, to assert copyright over his design. [12] [13] The outcome was that he was declared the copyright owner of the flag's design, according to copyright law of Australia. [14] [15]
Coburg, Victoria sign acknowledging that the Wurundjeri people originally inhabited the land, and containing the Australian Aboriginal flag. A land acknowledgement or territorial acknowledgement is a formal statement that acknowledges the original Indigenous peoples of the land, spoken at the beginning of public events. The custom of land ...
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.
I propose that the name of this article be changed from "Australian Aboriginal flag" (official in the 1995 proclamation) to "Australian Aboriginal Flag" (official in the 2008 proclamation - and to be similar to Torres Strait Islander Flag, also official from 2008). "Australian Aboriginal flag" would then redirect to "Australian Aboriginal Flag".
Despite the case being dismissed in July, Alec Baldwin says the story surrounding the fatal “Rust” shooting has only begun. On the Dec. 16 episode of David Duchovny’s “Fail Better ...
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 ...