Submitted by Paul Daley on
There’s Murdering Creek, Butcher’s Creek – so prolific are inappropriate placenames, many non-Indigenous Australians seem inured to their violent histories
The adoption of the Indigenous name K’gari for what was formerly Fraser Island is a timely reminder of the continuing First Nations-led quest to decolonise racially offensive Australian topographic and urban nomenclature.
Colonisation replaced many Indigenous placenames on the Australian map with those of (mostly) white men who murdered First Nations people. Countless continental features, meanwhile, have been renamed not to commemorate the massacred but the very act of massacring them.
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