Australian Aboriginal flag becomes permanent fixture outside Dublin embassy

Australian Ambassador to Ireland Gary Gray with the Australian national lag and Australian Aboriginal flag. Both will now fly together outside Australia's Dublin embassy. Picture: Mac Innes Photography

The Australian embassy in Ireland made history earlier this morning when it became the country’s first embassy to raise the Australian Aboriginal flag alongside its national one.

The Aboriginal flag features a red lower half, representing Australia's red earth, a black upper half, representing the indigenous people, and a large golden circle in the middle that symbolises the Sun.