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| Australian Aboriginal Nation |
The Australian Aboriginal Flag is a flag that represents Aboriginal Australians. It is one of the official flags of Australia, and holds special legal and political status, but it is not the Australian National Flag. It is often flown together with the national flag and with the Torres Strait Islander Flag, which is also an official flag of Australia.
The Australian Aboriginal Flag was designed in 1971 by Aboriginal artist Harold Thomas, who is descended from the Luritja people of Central Australia and holds intellectual property rights to the flag's design. The flag was originally designed for the land rights movement, and it became a symbol of the Aboriginal people of Australia.
More information: AIATSIS
The Government of Australia granted it Flag of Australia status, under the Flags Act 1953, by proclamation on 14 July 1995.
Due to an administrative oversight, the 1995 proclamation was not lodged so that it would continue in force indefinitely; hence it automatically expired on 1 January 2008. It was therefore almost identically replaced, on 25 January 2008, with effect as from 1 January.
In the 2008 proclamation, the flag is recognised as the flag of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and a flag of significance to the Australian nation generally and appointed to be the flag of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and to be known as the Australian Aboriginal Flag. The symbolic meaning of the flag colours is:
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| The Aboriginal Flag in the Parliament of Victoria |
-Black which represents the Aboriginal people of Australia.
-Yellow circle which represents the Sun, the giver of life and protector.
-Red which represents the red Earth, the red ochre used in ceremonies and Aboriginal peoples’ spiritual relation to the land.
The flag was first flown on National Aborigines Day in Victoria Square in Adelaide on 12 July 1971. It was also used in Canberra at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy from late 1972. In the early months of the embassy, which was established in February that year, other designs were used, including a black, green and red flag made by supporters of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league club, and a flag with a red-black field containing a spear and four crescents in yellow.
More information: National Geographic
The National Indigenous Advisory Committee campaigned for the Aboriginal flag to be flown at Stadium Australia during the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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| The Aboriginal Flags in Torres Strait Islander |
SOCOG announced that the Aboriginal flag would be flown at Olympic venues.
The flag was flown over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the march for reconciliation of 2000, and many other events.
The flag was flown over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the march for reconciliation of 2000, and many other events.
On the 30th anniversary of the flag in 2001, thousands of people were involved in a ceremony where the flag was carried from the Parliament of South Australia to Victoria Square.
Since 8 July 2002, after recommendations of the Council's Reconciliation Committee, the Aboriginal Flag has been permanently flown in Victoria Square and the front of the Town Hall.
More information: The Sydney Morning Herald
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief,
suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.
We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander children from their families,
their communities and their country.
Kevin Rudd
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