Linda Burney demands government sort out Aboriginal flag 'secret agreement'

Linda Burney has asked whether a tattoo of the Aboriginal flag she has on her arm might breach the terms of the licensing agreement. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Labor’s Linda Burney is demanding the federal government take steps to sort out what she has described as a “secret agreement” that controls the use of the Aboriginal flag in public, because it is now unclear whether her own tattoo of the flag is a breach of copyright.

“This situation is untenable,” Burney said. “It’s unthinkable that the use of the Aboriginal flag is now governed by a secret agreement at the discretion of a for-profit company.