Blue Mud Bay (Northern Territory, Australia)

Last modified: 2015-10-19 by ian macdonald
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image by Jonathan Dixon, 24 September 2015

• About the flag

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• Northern Territory

About the flag

At a Flags Australia meeting in May, Ron Strachan showed us a flag used at Blue Mud Bay. Unfortunately he can't tell us any more about it, and we're not even sure which way is the right way up. The flag is divided horizontally white and blue, separated by a black stripe, with a yellow disc with red outline in the centre.

Blue Mud Bay gives its name to legal case concerning rights over water in the intertidal areas of Aboriginal land. In 2008 the High Court decided that the water should be treated the same as the underlying land, and ceremonies celebrating this decision included white over blue "sea rights flags" placed in the intertidal zone.

I don't know that the flag with extra black, red and yellow is related to the sea rights flags, but the possibility of a connection was enough reason for me to make the image of the flag Ron showed us with white on top.
Jonathan Dixon, 24 September 2015