Acknowledging the First Nations peoples of the land you work, learn or live on should never be hidden in the small print.

Get your email signature banner now and start making a bigger deal of the First Nations Country your email is coming from.

• We have pre-prepared *some* banners Acknowledging the Country where our biggest cities and towns are located.

• Click on your State/Territory from the list below, find and click on the banner you want - a new window will open, just save the image to your phone or desktop

• If the First Nations Country you are on doesn’t appear below, don’t worry! We can help you to research and customise your own.

• If you believe we’ve made an unintentional error please let us know so we can fix it straight away.

Hey, before you grab your deadly email signature banner…

Don’t forget to support this campaign by signing our petition for the Australian Education system to hold space for First Nations Cultural Educators in every primary school. All Australian children deserve to learn about local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples’ cultures and languages in school.  Thanks!

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

Central and Southern Queensland

Northern Queensland

Central and Southern Queensland

Northern Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

Campaign Message Banners

Please note the specific non-commercial nature of the Creative Commons License issued by First Nations designer Rachael Sarra for the Know Your Country logo.

You can print or use these for personal use but you cannot alter the logo or sell them.

How to customise your own Know Your Country email signature banner:

1. Click here, you’ll be taken to Canva.com one of our campaign allies so you can create a customised email banner with the First Nations Country you are on

2. To start you’ll need to login or create a FREE Canva account. You can use your Facebook or Google account to do this.

3. Click on the purple ‘Customise this Template’ button

4. Click on one of the example Countries in orange e.g. ‘Arakwal’ and replace it with the name of the First Nations County you are on.

5. Once you’re ready - download the banner you just customised as a .png file by clicking on ‘Download’ in the top right-hand corner

How to find the First Nations Country you are on:

If you are unsure whose First Nations Country you are on, here are some research tips. It’s important to use a few different reference points:

• Web search “your local government area/ council” + “Traditional Owners”.

• Prioritise search results that source First Nations Organisation websites such as Aboriginal Land Councils. Here’s Creative Spirit’s list.

• Your local government area’s website should prominently acknowledge the traditional owners of your area - if it doesn’t, ask them to fix that!

• If you live in Victoria, here’s a map of formally recognised Traditional Owners that is very clear.

• Consult the AIATSIS Map (1994) which attempts to represent the language social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia.

How to install your email signature banner on the bottom of all your emails:

1. Open your preferred Email Application and add the downloaded image to your Email signature block.

2. Here’s how to do that on Gmail, Outlook and Apple iCloud Mail

3. If you would like to help promote the Know Your Country campaign hyperlink the image in your Email signature block to this website (www.knowyourcountry.org.au) alternatively you could link to a local First Nations community-controlled organisation.

Enjoy!