Shane Smithers in front of his Parramatta Square mural.(Background Briefing: Brendan Esposito)"We didn't have dots, we had lines," he explains, gesturing at the 30-metre mural in Parramatta Square.

After a long fight, the Alice Springs local council has voted to fly the Aboriginal flag on Anzac Hill. Here's more on the decision and the history behind the flag itself.

Another of his companies, Birubi Art, was fined A$2.3m ($1.65m) last year for selling fake Aboriginal art. The danger, says Linda Burney, the country’s first female indigenous MP , is that the ...

Artist and land rights activist Harold Thomas was just 24 years old when he created the first Aboriginal flag to ensure our people could stand up and be noticed at the National Aborigines Day ...

She said his history and the art and culture of Aboriginal people had helped her to accept her identity. Coe Gallery will be the UK's first indigenous owned Aboriginal gallery. Jasmine Coe ...

“I am grateful that my art is appreciated by so many, and that it has come to represent something so powerful to so many. “The Aboriginal flag design is my dreaming, intertwined with my wife ...

Australians can freely use the Aboriginal flag design at sporting events, on clothing and for art after the federal government bought its copyright from Luritja artist Harold Thomas.

IN a remarkable twist to Australian art history, it turns out that celebrated Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira, known for his European-style landscapes, was also the first known contemporary dot ...

“I hope that this arrangement provides comfort to all Aboriginal people and Australians to use the Flag, unaltered, proudly and without restriction,” Mr Thomas said, according to SBS.

Australia’s Aboriginal flag will replace the New South Wales state flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge, after officials scrapped a multi-million-dollar scheme that would have accommodated both.

(CNN) — Australia’s Aboriginal flag will replace the New South Wales state flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge, after officials scrapped a 25 million Australian dollar ($17 million) scheme that ...