New South Wales Labor leader Luke Foley will give the Aboriginal flag equal status with Australia’s national flag atop of Sydney harbour Bridge if he becomes Premier, it has been revealed.

Mr Foley said the proposal was part of his party’s social policy for indigenous recognition at the next state election.

“I think there is unfinished business when it comes to our relationship with Australia’s first people,” Mr Foley told The Daily Telegraph .

“The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the most recognisable image of Sydney right around the world… reconciliation with the First Australians has to occur in Sydney.”

The Aboriginal flag flies just 15 days of the year on the bridge those being Australia Day, during Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week.

Mr Foley’s flag proposal was inspired by an online petition to current NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian by Cheree Toka, a young indigenous woman.

Mr Foley’s flag proposal was inspired by an online petition to current NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian by Cheree Toka, a young indigenous woman.

“We have reached (a) whopping 70,000 supporters,” Ms Toka tweeted on January 30 this year. “Really looking forward to the year ahead.”

At the time of publishing, the online petition had almost 75,000 signatures.

Meanwhile, debate around cultural sensitives in favour of Australia’s first nations has resulted in a Melbourne city council reportedly banning its employees from utter the words “Australia Day”.

In a memo to City of Yarra staff, chief executive Vijaya Vaidyanath has called on staff to refer to Australia Day as “the January 26 public holiday” in conversations with the public, the Herald Sun reports.

“Council made a resolution to change the way we mark our national day on January 26,” she wrote in the memo. “This includes no longer referring to this date as Australia Day.”

Liberal MP Tim Smith has hit back at the ban, labelling the council as hypocrites who object to Australia Day only to still take the day off.