Call to add Indigenous names to already named places is ‘destructive’

Broadcaster and Wordsmith Kel Richards says there are around “3 million” places with Indigenous names in Australia “right now”. “Not a lot of people know this,” Mr Richards said. “There are about approximately 4 million place names in Australia, three-quarters of them, 3 million of them are Indigenous, right now. “3 million names on our maps are Indigenous. “They don’t like the non-Indigenous names … it’s destructive.”