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The Aboriginal flag “belongs to everyone, and no-one can take it away”, Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt has proudly declared, after the federal government paid $20 million for the rights to the artwork.
But how did it come to this?
Luritja artist Harold Thomas created the flag way back in 1970 to lead a NAIDOC march.
That means, unlike country flags, the Aboriginal flag was privately owned by Thomas — he had the sole right to reproduce it and can give that right to others under what is known as licensing agreements.
It’s no different to a regular artwork — even though, crucially, the flag came to represent the entire First Nations Peoples.
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