The Aboriginal flag can now be freely used just like the nationwide flag after the Federal Authorities purchased the copyright in a historic take care of the symbol's creator.
The $20.05 million deal ends ongoing controversies over the flag's use stemming from non-Indigenous firm WAM Clothes holding the unique copyright since November 2018.
The licence had meant anybody wishing to make use of the flag on clothes or in bodily and digital media needed to ask permission and pay a charge.
However with the transferral of the copyright to the Commonwealth, Prime Minister Scott Morrison mentioned the flag had been "freed" for all Australians, permitting it for use "in the same method to the Australian Nationwide Flag", together with on sporting jerseys and grounds, web sites, work and different artworks.
The flag's creator, Luritja artist Harold Thomas, mentioned he hoped the association would offer consolation to Aboriginal individuals and different Australians to make use of the flag "unaltered, proudly and with out restriction".
"I'm grateful that my artwork is appreciated by so many, and that it has come to signify one thing so highly effective to so many," he mentioned, in a authorities assertion saying the acquisition.
"The Aboriginal flag design is my dreaming, intertwined with my spouse's household and mine, our ancestral belonging. The land, and the panorama, is indelible in my make-up; it programs by way of my consciousness and subconsciousness.
"The flag represents the timeless historical past of our land and our individuals's time on it. It's an introspection and appreciation of who we're. It attracts from the historical past of our ancestors, our land, and our id and can honour these properly into the long run."