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	Ausflag - Aboriginal Flag
		The Aboriginal Flag was designed by Harold Thomas, an artist and an Aboriginal, in 1971.
		The flag was designed to be an eye-catching rallying symbol for the Aboriginal people and a symbol of their race and identity.
		The fl represents the Aboriginal people, the red the earth and their spiritual relationship to the land, and the yellow the sun, the giver of life.
	www.ausflag.com.au /flags/ab.html (397 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Indigenous Advisory Committee campaigned for the Aboriginal flag to be flown at Homebush stadium during the 2000 Olympics.
		The Aboriginal Flag is permanently flown in Victoria Square and the front of the Town Hall, from 8 July 2002 after recommendations of the Council's Reconciliation Committee.
		Aboriginal flag a symbol of reconciliation, The Sydney Morning Herald, p.13, 6 July 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_Flag (1138 words)

	Aboriginal Australia: History, Culture, and Conflict
		Aboriginal spirituality entails a close relationship between humans and the land.
		Aborigines call the beginning of the world the "Dreaming," or "Dreamtime." In the "Dreamtime," aboriginal "Ancestors" rose from below the earth to form various parts of nature including animal species, bodies of water, and the sky.
		Aborigines use didgeridoos in formal ceremonies at such events as sunsets, circumcisions, and funerals.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/aboriginal1.html (475 words)

	Australian Flag
		The flag was designed to be an eye-catching rallying symbol for the Aboriginal people and a symbol of their race and identity.
		The fl represents the Aboriginal people, the red the earth and their spiritual relationship to the land, and the yellow the sun, the giver of life.
		The Aboriginal flag was first raised in Victoria Square in Adelaide on National Aboriginal Day in 1971, but was adopted nationally by Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in 1972 after it was flown above the Aboriginal "Tent Embassy" outside of the old Parliament House in Canberra.
	www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au /australiaday/austflag.htm (377 words)

	National NAIDOC
		After a period of public consultation, the Aboriginal flag was proclaimed a ‘Flag of Australia’ under section 5 of the Flags Act 1953 in July 1995.
		The Australian Aboriginal Flag is protected under copyright and may be reproduced only in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 or with the permission of Harold Thomas.
		The Aboriginal flag should be flown or displayed with the fl at the top and the red at the bottom.
	www.naidoc.org.au /flags/aboriginal.aspx (334 words)

	Adelaide City Council - Reconciliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Australian flag is the official flag of Australia, however both the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags are recognised flags of Australia.
		Council unanimously endorsed the Flags and Banners Policy on 8 July 2002 resulting in the permanent flying of the Aboriginal flag in Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga and the permanent flying of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags on the flagpoles in front of the Town Hall.
		Thousands of people were involved in the Aboriginal flag ceremony which saw the flag carried from Parliament House to the centre of Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga prior to it being raised by Harold Thomas on one of the big flagpoles in Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga.
	www.adelaidecitycouncil.com /reconciliation/flag.htm (495 words)

	It's an Honour - Symbols - Other Australian Flags
		The Australian Aboriginal Flag is protected by copyright and may only be reproduced in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 or with the permission of Mr Harold Thomas.
		The Centenary Flag was presented to the Prime Minister on 3 September 2001 to mark the centenary of the Australian National Flag.
		The Centenary Flag is an Australian National Flag with a white headband incorporating a cardinal red stripe and an inscription.
	www.itsanhonour.gov.au /symbols/otherflag.cfm (840 words)

	Aboriginal Flag Information >> Aboriginal Flag Secrets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The aboriginal flag was designed by Harold Thomas, a Lorita man from central Australia for the manufacture and marketing of the aboriginal flag has been awarded by Mr Thomas to.
		The aboriginal flag was designed by Harold Thomas, an artist and an aboriginal, in of the flag was born.
		The flag of aboriginal Australia the aboriginal flag was designed by Harold Thomas, an artist and an aboriginal, in 1971.
	www.theflagsuperstore.com /aboriginal-flag.html (854 words)

	ncca - Flags
		The flag is divided horizontally into equal halves of fl (top) and red (bottom), with a yellow circle in the centre.
		Today the flag has been adopted by all Aboriginal groups and is flown or displayed permanently at Aboriginal centres throughout Australia.
		Aboriginal Flag reproduced by permission of the author Harold Thomas ©1971
	www.ncca.org.au /natsiec/flags (240 words)

	Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Icon or Eyesore? (Chronology 3 1999-2000)
		The Aboriginal flag is a symbol of the struggle...There are many people who have benefited both psychologically and spiritually over the past 25 years from that flag.
		Aboriginal Tent Embassy spokesperson, John Newfong, announced the possibility of replacing the tents with prefabricated wooden huts: 'If people think this is an eyesore, well it is the way it is on Government settlements.
		The Aboriginal flag was raised at the 'Embassy of the Aboriginal Nation' in Red Hill.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/chron/1999-2000/2000chr03.htm (6261 words)

	Games of the XXVII Olympiad: Sydney 2000
		At each Opening Ceremony the first flag to enter the stadium in the Parade of Flags is the flag of Greece.
		For the flag of Nepal, which isn't rectangular, this ratio is used for the hoist and the bottom.
		At the Opening Ceremony during the Parade of Flags, the flag of the host country was the last to enter the stadium.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/oly@s27.html (777 words)

	Dreaming Online: Flags and Maps
		The Aboriginal Flag is divided horizontally into equal halves of fl (top) and red (bottom), with a yellow circle in the centre.
		The flag - designed by Harold Joseph Thomas, a Luritja man from Central Australia - was first flown at Victoria Square, Adelaide on National Aborigines' Day on 12 July 1971.
		Today the flag has been adopted by all Aboriginal groups and is flown or displayed permanently at Aboriginal centres throughout Australia.
	www.dreamtime.net.au /indigenous/flags.cfm (230 words)

	Aussie Aussie Aussie
		The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time on Bakery Hill, Ballarat, Australia as a symbol of the resistance of the gold miners during the Eureka Stockade rebellion.
		The original Eureka Flag (Ballarat Fine Art Museum)The flag, representative of the Southern Cross which also appears on the official flag of Australia, was designed by Captain Henry Ross, one of Eureka's miners and a Canadian expatriate.
		His flag bears a striking but coincidental resemblance to the Fleurdelisé, Québec's provincial flag, which was not to appear until nearly a hundred years later.
	members.tripod.com /diesel_doll/id18.html (742 words)

	The Australian Flag
		The outer diameter is 3/5 the width of the Union Jack (3/10 the width of the fly) and the inner diameter is 4/9 the outer diameter.
		This flag was adopted as the symbol of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people when it was first flown in 1971.
		It is a strident 3-colour flag composed of a large central yellow circle imposed on a background of a red lower half and a fl upper half; the fl represents the Aboriginal people, the yellow the sun as a life force, the red the earth and the blood of the Aboriginal people.
	www.anbg.gov.au /oz/flag.html (1022 words)

	ABORIGINAL FLAG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The flag was designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas a Luritja man from Central Australia.
		The fl represents the Aboriginal people, the red the earth and the people’s spiritual relationship to the land, the yellow the sun, the giver of life.
		The flag was first flown in Adelaide’s Victoria Square in 1971.
	www.cecnsw.catholic.edu.au /abflag.htm (67 words)

	rediff.com: Aboriginal flag to fly at Olympic venues
		He said the flag would not be regarded as a prohibited item for spectators, but it would be up to individual teams to decide whether athletes carried it.
		The size of any flags taken into the Games venues will be limited to one by two metres (about three by six feet).
		Olympics authorities have warned that an Aboriginal Arts centre immediately outside the main stadium should not be used as a focus for protests to highlight the plight of Aborigines, but widespread protests elsewhere are likely.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2000/aug/21abo.htm (319 words)

	A New Australian Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From the bottom the flag incorporates the blue, green and fl of the Torres Strait Islander (TSI) flag, the fl, yellow and red of the Aboriginal flag and the red, white and blue of the national flag.
		The "Federal"/"National" Star is prominent in the upper Fly position or second quarter and is retained, though relocated from the present national flag where it is in the third quarter or lower Hoist position.
		Hoist - The half of the flag nearest to the halyard (that is the rope by which a flag is raised and lowered).
	www.paulsrus.net /Ross/Ausflag.html (1299 words)

	Australian proposed flags
		James describes the flag perfectly, but I think the blue stripes in the hoist and fly are of proportions 1 to 2.
		Secondly, the designer of the Aboriginal flag, Harold Thomas, does not believe the Aboriginal flag should ever be used in such a way.
		Apart from the Ausflag sections on changing the NSW flag (which are a couple of years old now) I haven't heard anything about states changing, certainly not here in Queensland (although we'd probably be the last state to consider such an idea, Queensland's a tad conservative in some qurters).
	flagspot.net /flags/au-new.html (1207 words)

	Gavin R. Putland: Australian Flag Designs
		Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag, represents the indigenous peoples.
		Red represents the land (as on the Aboriginal Flag) and the blood of martyrs of all races.
		War veterans who claim to have fought "for the Flag" will be respectfully asked whether, if 51% of the Australian people were to vote for a new National Flag, the other 49% would be justified in taking up arms to defend the old one.
	www.grputland.com /flag (389 words)

	Australia flags and ensigns; focusing on international flags, histories, and flag designs.
		The protests increased in the early 1970’s and Harold Thomas noticed that they were often outnumbered by non-Aborigines with their own banners and placards; so, he decided Aborigines needed to be more visible and the idea of the flag was born.
		The Aboriginal flag was first raised in Victoria Square, in Adelaide, on National Aboriginal Day in 1971.
		It was adopted nationally by Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in 1972 after it was flown above the Aboriginal “Tent Embassy” outside the old Parliament House in Canberra.
	www.flagfocus.info /worldflags-large/world-flags-large-Australia.html (1482 words)

	Aboriginal Flag - Indigenous Australia
		The Aboriginal flag was designed by Harold Thomas in 1971.
		The flag was first flown at Victoria Square in Adelaide on National Aboriginies day July 12th 1971, it was used later at the Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972, when Aboriginal people were seeking national justice, including land rights, education, legal rights and health.
		Today the flag is used by all Aboriginal groups and is flown at Aboriginal centres all over Australia.
	indigenousaustralia.frogandtoad.com.au /standards/flag.html (133 words)

	Aboriginal flag status to lift - National - www.theage.com.au
		The move, initiated by Aboriginal Affairs Minister Gavin Jennings, is also an apparent bid to follow suit with Sydney, where the flag flies prominently on several public buildings.
		The idea to display the Aboriginal flag more prominently emerged last week, after Geelong MLC Elaine Carbines told Parliament that she had seen it flying on landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, NSW Parliament House, and many other public buildings on a recent trip to Sydney.
		Opposition Aboriginal affairs spokesman Murray Thompson said he supported raising the Aboriginal flag for indigenous events such as NAIDOC Week and Reconciliation Week - which is done in most major cities - but not as a permanent move.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/16/1100574463743.html (501 words)

	Aboriginal Catholic Ministry - Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Aboriginal Catholic Ministry in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle fosters the spiritual, cultural and social development of indigenous Australians.
		The Aboriginal Flag was first designed by Harold Joseph Thomas, an Aboriginal man in 1971.
		The aim of this day is to encourage Catholics locally to focus their worship on Aboriginal and Torres Islander people and their culture and the issues of social justice they represent.
	www.mn.catholic.org.au /diocesan/aboriginal_catholic_ministry.htm (677 words)

	The Flag Debate
		When the flag is used in a march-past, the animal faces in the same direction as the flag bearer.
		If a flag is to be made by the appliqué method, then the pieces should be simple to cut out and sewn on to the main piece.
		Flags are frequently represented as flat graphics, or used as decals.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/goodgirl/1215/ausflagdebate.htm (741 words)

	Symbols and Meaning of these new Australian Flag Designs - Austflag.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the Australian Flag, the Union Jack,which occupies the honor point of the design,contains the crosses of the United Kingdom with the colours red, white and blue.These are the crosses of St.George, St.Andrew and St.Patrick.They symbolize the union of England, Scotland and Ireland under the English Throne as the United Kingdom.
		The ground colour of the flag is blue, The blue only became the official generally used colour in 1953.
		On the Aboriginal Flag, the red represents the land,the red ocher of Australia, to which the Aboriginal people have a spiritual bond.
	www.austflag.com /colours.htm (408 words)

	The World Today Archive - Row in South Australian town over Aboriginal flag
		The local Aboriginal community is demanding an apology from the Council of the city after they were refused the right to fly the flag in the town square.
		The Council came back and said the RSL did not permit it, because the only flags allowed to be flown are the Australian flag and its allies that fought in the war, so that year we did not fly the flag and again this year.
		My understanding is the Federation flag isn't really an official flag in any case, so you know they on one hand - there's basically two sets of rules here, one for them and one for us.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s409658.htm (822 words)

	Ngarn-gi Bagora Indigenous Centre
		The Aboriginal flag is divided horizontally into equal halves of fl (top) and red (bottom), with a yellow circle in the centre.
		The fl symbolises Aboriginal people and the yellow represents the sun, the constant giver and renewer of life.
		Today the flag has been adopted by all Aboriginal groups and is proudly flown or displayed permanently at Aboriginal centres throughout Australia.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /alo/pages/flag_info2.html (113 words)

	Flag History - Other Australian Flags - Aboriginal Flag
		The Aboriginal flag was recognised under Federal legislation, as was the Torres Strait Islanders' flag, in July 1995.
		The flag is flown or displayed permanently at Aboriginal centres throughout Australia.
		It is popularly recognised as the flag of the aboriginal peoples of Australia and should only be flown by other Australians when permission has been granted.
	www.flagaustnat.asn.au /aboriginalflag.php (229 words)

	Harold Thomas — Creator of the Aboriginal Flag
		I applied for a job at the South Australian Museum, where I became the first Aboriginal to be employed in a museum in Australia.
		I was with the biggest collection of Aboriginal art -- artefact in the world, and I had virtually free access to it.
		If this is going to be an Aboriginal flag, it has to have fl, because it represents the fl people of the continent.
	www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s513731.htm (803 words)

	Didjeridus come in many shapes and sizes, from Bells to Forks, HealingDidjeridus to Long Didges
		These didjes have the Aboriginal flag painted on them.
		Either they have a small flag at the top or the bottom (or both) or the whole didj is painted in the colours of the Aboriginal flag.
		These are didjes with some of the finest Aboriginal art available.
	www.didjshop.com /shop1/didjtypescart.html (925 words)

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