Canberra teenager Ineka Voigt wants to see a "message of reconciliation" continue to spread after an enormous response from the public to her Australia Day Google drawing. 
Ms Voigt, 16, won a competition last year to have her picture of a reunited Indigenous mother and child featured on the search engine's homepage on   January 26.
"It's important for us to recognise our achievements [on Australia Day], but also look at the atrocities. I believe that the stolen generation is one of the greatest atrocities in Australia's history."
Ms Voigt said responses to the drawing had been overwhelmingly positive.
"It's absolutely wonderful for me as an artist, but as a message of reconciliation it has gone global," she said, having fielded calls from Hong Kong, the UK and Canada.
She said the feedback made her "realise this is what I want to do with my life, I want to start conversations".
As an "artivist" - one who explores activism through art - the teenager was floored to hear one Australian media organisation describe the doodle as the most "overtly political statement in world Google history".
Google was widely praised online for selecting the image, which was a significant departure from its previous Australia Day doodles. It was a nod to those for whom   January 26 symbolised the British invasion and its devastating effects on Indigenous people and culture.
On the matter of changing the date of Australia Day, Ms Voigt said she was undecided, but she hoped to see continuing change in the discussion and culture around the national holiday.