Australian landmarks: Growing calls to scrap “racist” names
GEORGINA HEWSON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the push to change names in Australia…
Australia strips Belgium’s ‘evil tyrant’ Leopold from name of mountains
Melbourne, Australia Reuters Australia has renamed its King Leopold mountain ranges Wunaamin Miliwundi, replacing the name of a Belgian ruler known for his brutal colonisation of Africa with traditional names used by Indigenous people. The state of Western Australia has debated changing the name of the mountains for nearly a decade, and finally made the […]