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Aboriginal Flag

The Australian Aboriginal flag was originally designed as a protest flag for the land rights movement of Indigenous Australians but has since become a symbol of the Aboriginal people of Australia. The flag is a yellow circle on a horizontally divided field of black and red and was designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas, an Aboriginal artist descended from the Luritja of Central Australia. On 14 July 1995, both the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag were officially proclaimed by the Australian government as 'Flags of Australia' under Section 5 of the Flags Act (1953).

Different explanations have been given for what the colours represent. One view is that black represents Aboriginal people, red the earth and ochre, which is used in ceremonies, and yellow symbolises the sun, the constant renewer of life. Black is also said to represent the sky at night, red has sometimes been said to show the blood of Aboriginal people during fighting with white settlers. Thomas himself said that red and yellow were obvious colours to use, since red and yellow ochre were the predominant colours used by his people.

Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_flag