OLSH Wadeye

Last term we studied how and why white people came to Australia. We found out most of the first whitefellas came from Britain and many Australians thought of Britain as their mother country.

Then things started changing. People came from all over the world and Britain wasn’t very important to them.

Some of the First Australians, the old Australians and the New Australians don’t like the flag we have now because it has the British flag in it.

We had a go designing a brand new flag!

- Saara -

My name is Beatrice.

This is my flag. I put my colours Blue, Red, Yellow, Black and Gray, Brown and White.

I use the black yellow and red because that’s the colour of Aboriginal flags. I put the Emu and the Kangaroo because that’s our silver in Australia.
- BEATRICE -

My name is Merle and this is my flag. The colours I chose to use are green and black, yellow and brown because they are good colours. I put a kangaroo on my flag because there are kangaroos in Australia. 

- Merle -

My name is Saara and here are two flags I designed. I chose to use the colours of the Indigenous flag - black, red and yellow. I also picked blue from the current flag. I added gold and green from the colours Aussies wear in sporting events.

On one flag, I put the kangaroo and, in the other, I put the Southern Cross. I thought they would be good symbols that represent everyone.

- Saara -

Here are some other flags: