Canvas (fedi's r/place) starts in 12 days, here's the Australia flag plans this year!

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨eatham@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

This year the flag will be the same size as last years as we nearly finished it last year. It has a small aboriginal flag on it, a large bluey and the text aussie.zone in the bottom right.

Here is the template for this year: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=90&y=78&zoom=4&tu=https%3A%2F%2Faussie.zone%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F93987250-cd08-4e21-9b00-dbd13669ffe4.png&tw=200&tx=0&ty=0&ts=ONE_TO_ONE

Before using it you will have to lower the transparency in canvas settings (and you’ll have to wait for canvas to start :) )

We also have a matrix chat for the flag: #australiacanvas:matrix.org

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Please allow others to place art on the flag and don’t damage it unless it is another countries flag, covers the stars, union jack, bluey, or other important parts of the flag.

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Nath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Huh. Well this went from “something to look into next week” to “Oops, it’s finished already”.
Looks like there wasn’t much interest this year.

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- eatham@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, I couldn’t do it most of the time and nobody got enough done to get the ball rolling. Didn’t help that there was a group entirely dedicated to vandalizing it this year. We got an aboriginal flag and the southern cross done but the Vietnamese replaced the aboriginal flag with theirs and the arsenal fans who said they wouldn’t damage the stars removed them.
  
  Doesn’t matter tho we still have next year, hopefully we get some more people.
  
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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I went to check out the status of the Torres Straight Island flag and ended in going down a bit of a rabbit hole in regards to the Australian Aboriginal flag:

The flag’s current legal status was debated in an Australian Senate estimates committee in mid‑February 2022, when it was also revealed that the Morrison government had paid $13.75m to Thomas to assume copyright, and also paid $6.3m to two non-Indigenous businesses which held licences to use the flag. These companies are WAM Clothing, which received $5.2m, and Wooster Holdings, which was paid $1.1m. Interests in both companies are held by Gold Coast businessman Ben Wooster, former director of Birubi Art (which was fined $2.3m in 2018 for selling fake Aboriginal art).

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- FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Is Carroll & Richardson Flagworld a indigenous business? As far as I know they hold the exclusive licence to manufacture the Aboriginal Flag in actual flag form and I wonder why they’re not mentioned
  
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- eatham@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s a bit dumb that the govt doesn’t just make the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags public domain
  
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  - Balthazar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Maybe it’s like the GPL: using copyright to ensure it isn’t misused?
    
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FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t think I’ll be helping this year, it’s too bloody hot over here to deal with all the surrounding drama (from people who try to sabotage the flag), but it’s cool to see that the Aboriginal Flag is now “officially” part of it

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