Bunbury, WA – just one of Australia’s many places named after the killers of Indigenous people | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Tue, 15/02/2022 - 12:06pm

A start has been made in righting some of the egregious wrongs of the nation’s nomenclature, but there’s far to go

Just who is remembered, even eulogised, in the nomenclature of place is becoming one of the most burning questions at the heart of 21st-century public history.

No less vexed than the so-called “statue” wars that flare up intermittently across the world (not least in the United States over confederate “heroes”, in the UK over slavers and here, in Australia, over murdering colonisers) are place names given to towns and other landmarks.