Given that both Thomas and at least some of the people at Spark Health are the people represented by this flag, why are Thomas’s actions not in his and their own interests as aboriginal Australians? I conclude you don’t believe they are since you say that doing so would…
Is it because he’s an individual and they’re a business? Is it because he chose to license it to a non-aboriginal business? Something else? And are you implying that Spark Health’s actions are more in both their and Thomas’s own interests as aboriginal Australians? In short, why is his own activism non-representative of his people, and especially why is it less representative than Spark Health’s activism?
Perhaps you know something I don’t, but I tend to be more sympathetic to an individual artist-activist profiting from representing his people than an activist-business doing so, but I admit part of that my reasonable distrust of for-profit company even if it’s mission is noble.
I can see the argument against an aboriginal (in this case Thomas) profiting from licensing the artwork to a non-aboriginal business, but it seems wrong to deny him that right simply because he’s aboriginal.
