Ask HN: Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all artworks

Re:Ask HN: Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all art... by 0xffff2 on Monday August 17, 2020 @11:51AM (#24188365)

I know virtually nothing about this topic, but Wikipedia says that the flag "is one of the officially proclaimed flags of Australia", and the page "List of Australian Flags" [0] lists it as a national flag alongside the flag most people would recognize as the Australian flag. It seems plausible to me based on this that the flag is really a national flag for legal purposes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_flags

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Re:Ask HN: Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all art... by thomasfromcdnjs on Monday August 17, 2020 @11:57AM (#24188423)

Here is the original proclamation -> https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2008L00209

"I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and noting the fact that the flag reproduced in Schedule 1 and described in Schedule 2 is recognised as the flag of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and a flag of significance to the Australian nation generally, appoint that flag, under section 5 of the Flags Act 1953, to be the flag of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and to be known as the Australian Aboriginal Flag with effect from 1 January 2008."

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