Aboriginal flag will fly PERMANENTLY on Sydney’s Harbour Bridge

The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge after the NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet directed bureaucrats to find a way to make it happen urgently.

‘What I find ridiculous is that we could build the Harbour Bridge in the 1920s, but apparently we can’t put a flagpole on the bridge in 2022,’ Perrottet, told The Sydney Morning Herald.

‘I’ve directed them to find a way to do it, and I’ve been advised that they will find a way to achieve that.’

He has been told it could take up to a year to do but he’s asked for it to happen more quickly. 

Dominic Perrottet says it is ‘ridiculous’ that there are not enough flagpoles on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to carry the Aboriginal flag fulltime

At present the Aboriginal flag only flies on the Bridge for 19 days a year. The two flag poles on it usually carry the Australian flag and the state flag. 

Flying the the Aboriginal flag on the bridge full-time is one of several new orders Perrottet has given around Indigenous issues.

He is set to update the NSW ministerial charter for all 26 government ministers in his cabinet to include an obligation to close the gap in their portfolios.

Perrottet also authorise the remediation of Goat Island in Sydney Harbour before handing it back to Aboriginal owners.

The Aboriginal flag flies for just 19 days a year on the Bridge but Perrottet has directed authorities to make it a full-time sight this year

Goat Island is owned by the NSW government and and is often rented out for ticketed public events such as dance parties.

It is one of several possible sites for a new Indigenous cultural precinct he wants built to celebrate Aboriginal history.

This could be partly used for educational purposes with students leaning about Indigenous history at the site. 

Another is Macquarie Street in the Sydney CBD.