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The Aboriginal flag 'belongs to everyone' after the federal government completed a deal to take ownership of its copyright.
Previously owned by the flag's designer Harold Thomas and a non-Indigenous clothing company, the flag is now freely available for public use.
It comes after a number of Indigenous groups were sent cease and desist warnings for using the flag in an apparent breach of copyright.
The Aboriginal flag can now be used by everyone without the spectre of legal action.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt said it was 'profoundly important for all Australians', adding 'no one can take it away'.
'Over the last 50 years we made Harold Thomas' artwork our own - we marched under the Aboriginal flag, stood behind it, and flew it high as a point of pride," he said.
