Lurita artist paid $13.75m for copyright of design while two non-Indigenous companies received $6.3m
The federal government has revealed it paid $13.75m to the creator of the Aboriginal flag, Luritja artist Harold Thomas, to assume copyright, and $6.3m to two non-Indigenous businesses who held licences to the design, amid a clash in Senate estimates over whether the flag had been “colonised”.
WAM Clothing received $5.2m and Wooster Holdings, $1.1m, a Senate estimates committee has been told.
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Source: The Guardian