Call for Australians to be ‘critical’ of changing place names with Indigenous alternatives

Wordsmith and broadcaster Kel Richards calls on Australians to be “critical” of corporations replacing place names with Indigenous variations. “They don’t replace the names; they give them double names, so in fact, Uluru is actually called, legally, Uluru slash Ayers Rock,” Mr Richards said. “Those are the rules. You can dual name some things but only physical objects, and this idea they can rename entire cities is simply against the rules. It is against the law.”