The pride of Australia's first people here's something of which we can brag <br />Red and black with a big moon of yellow the great Aboriginal flag <br />It should be the flag of Australia with the stars of the Southern Cross <br />That we tend to overlook Indigenous history and culture for us all seems such a sad loss. <br /> <br />Red and yellow for the sun and the land and black for the people how proudly it toss in the breeze <br />On this beautiful day in the Autumn with a high of near thirty degrees <br />The pride of Australia's first people but as a flag it does not take pride of place <br />The National flag of Australia is not of the Aboriginal race. <br /> <br />The Aboriginal population is dwindling and their culture we fail to embrace <br />But they have a proud ancient lineage that to the Dreamtime they can trace <br />Yet their's is not the flag of Australia of this marvellous Southern Land <br />To them that must seem quite insulting when respect should be theirs to command. <br /> <br />The flag of Australia's first people a flag one does not often see <br />In the gentle wind displaying it's colours on the flagpost in the park by the sea <br />It should be the flag of Australia for Political discussion some fuel <br />But that is never going to happen so much for majority rule.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-great-aboriginal-flag/
