Rocco: “You can’t own a flag, you can’t own an Identity”.

By Lucas Holmes & Jordan Treloar

Clothing company WAM has issued a number of ‘cease and desist’ notices to companies including the Australian Football League (AFL) for intending to use the Aboriginal flag as part of their ‘Sir Doug Nicholls’ Indigenous round this weekend.

For proud Gunditjmara women Kahlia Rocco, this decision has bought about mixed emotions.

Growing up in Western Victoria, Kahlia Rocco has been around Australian rules football her whole life. Photo: Lucas Holmes