Whiteys Own Aboriginal Flag

[icyfroth]

A white man who stopped the AFL using the Aboriginal Flag in the code's Indigenous Round was once fined $2 million for selling 'authentic' didgeridoos and boomerangs - that were actually made in Indonesia.

A picture shows Ben Wooster and business partner Semele Moore smiling happily with the flag's original designer Harold Thomas after their company, WAM Clothing, was given copyright license to the iconic symbol in 2018.

Mr Thomas designed the famous flag in 1971 - and in 1997 won a High Court battle to become the sole copyright owner - but in 2018 signed over clothing license rights to WAM Clothing.

This means WAM Clothing collects fees from its use, and then passes a portion of the money back to the Mr Thomas. 

It also means that without the consent of Mr Wooster and Ms Moore, the flag cannot be used on clothing or in any media.

The AFL this week announced it wouldn't be using the most obvious and famous symbol of Aboriginal Australia as part of its Indigenous Round because they had been unable to secure a deal with the co-owners.

Mr Wooster is a disgraced businessman whose former company was fined $2.3m for claiming art was Aboriginal when it was actually made in Indonesia, while Ms Moore was a paralegal at a leading Brisbane law firm before founding WAM Clothing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8641665/Aboriginal-Flag-copyright-licensees-pair-WHITE-busi...

That's so Australia for you. Sell everything, resources, intellectual property, land, water, utilities... anything for a quick quid!

[lyndal1838]

It is hardly "Australia" selling the Aboriginal flag......it was sold by the Aboriginal artist who designed it and owned the copyright.

[domino-710]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

It is hardly "Australia" selling the Aboriginal flag......it was sold by the Aboriginal artist who designed it and owned the copyright.

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LOL.

[rogespeed]

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@icyfroth wrote:

A white man who stopped the AFL using the Aboriginal Flag in the code's Indigenous Round was once fined $2 million for selling 'authentic' didgeridoos and boomerangs - that were actually made in Indonesia.

A picture shows Ben Wooster and business partner Semele Moore smiling happily with the flag's original designer Harold Thomas after their company, WAM Clothing, was given copyright license to the iconic symbol in 2018.

Mr Thomas designed the famous flag in 1971 - and in 1997 won a High Court battle to become the sole copyright owner - but in 2018 signed over clothing license rights to WAM Clothing.

This means WAM Clothing collects fees from its use, and then passes a portion of the money back to the Mr Thomas. 

It also means that without the consent of Mr Wooster and Ms Moore, the flag cannot be used on clothing or in any media.

The AFL this week announced it wouldn't be using the most obvious and famous symbol of Aboriginal Australia as part of its Indigenous Round because they had been unable to secure a deal with the co-owners.

Mr Wooster is a disgraced businessman whose former company was fined $2.3m for claiming art was Aboriginal when it was actually made in Indonesia, while Ms Moore was a paralegal at a leading Brisbane law firm before founding WAM Clothing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8641665/Aboriginal-Flag-copyright-licensees-pair-WHITE-busi...

That's so Australia for you. Sell everything, resources, intellectual property, land, water, utilities... anything for a quick quid!

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[rogespeed]

A can not help wondering whether the "" Aboriginal Flag"" might be better representitive of popular imagary to have a more orchre colour representing the arid earth rather than solid red of the bottom band - i mean it does look good but another country is strongly represented by that colour combination

[davewil1964]

But not in the order or, strictly, colour that the Aboriginal flag is.

Many countries use 3 colours on their flags. Many use 3 colours in horizontal bars, some even the same 3, but in different order. Given the German flag doesn't use the same colours as the Aboriginal one, and certainly doesn't have their 3 colours displayed in the same layout as the Aboriginal flag, please explain why you think there is any likely correspondence between the two.

[rogespeed]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

But not in the order or, strictly, colour that the Aboriginal flag is.

Many countries use 3 colours on their flags. Many use 3 colours in horizontal bars, some even the same 3, but in different order. Given the German flag doesn't use the same colours as the Aboriginal one, and certainly doesn't have their 3 colours displayed in the same layout as the Aboriginal flag, please explain why you think there is any likely correspondence between the two.

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 Is the impression when first viewed - but is a great flag design - symbolically  black fella upon the red earth under the yellow/gold sun ? 

[icyfroth]

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@rogespeed wrote:

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@davewil1964 wrote:

But not in the order or, strictly, colour that the Aboriginal flag is.

Many countries use 3 colours on their flags. Many use 3 colours in horizontal bars, some even the same 3, but in different order. Given the German flag doesn't use the same colours as the Aboriginal one, and certainly doesn't have their 3 colours displayed in the same layout as the Aboriginal flag, please explain why you think there is any likely correspondence between the two.

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 Is the impression when first viewed - but is a great flag design - symbolically  black fella upon the red earth under the yellow/gold sun ? 

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True.

But why would you sell it out to Whitefellas  if you're a staunch Blackfella?

Goes to show, Austrraliana iis up for sale to the highest bidder.

[rogespeed]

For those internationally travelled 

[davewil1964]

Obvious difference.

To me at least. I have no idea how your eyesight is.