A Noongar Bloke Is Pushing Tech Companies To Make Indigenous Flag Emojis

A Noongar man from Perth has been pushing hard for tech companies to consider including the Aboriginal flag among the more than 200 flags currently available in the emoji keyboard. A Change.org petition he started has collected over 2,000 signatures with little press.

Derek Nannup reckons that the flags that are currently included have encouraged him to investigate more about the designs and the countries they belong to, and he hopes the same thing could happen with both the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islands flag.
“I don’t really know half of the flags,” he told ABC News.
“So it kinds of make me curious to figure out and know what they are. I’m wondering if other people would be the same as me, and if they saw the Aboriginal flag it’d make them want to look into it and learn more about our culture and our people.”
Emojis are decided upon by a non-profit corporation called the Unicode Consortium, and the designs are then interpreted by the various tech companies. For an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands flags to be included and be compatible across operating systems and handsets, it would have to be turned into a standard by the Consortium.
Look, if there’s a flag for the Northern Mariana Islands, we can sort out an Aboriginal one, yeah?
Source: ABC News.
Photo: Getty Images / C. DANI I. JESKE

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