Mr McConnell said he'd been approached by constituents to push for the renaming.
He said the change would bring greater public awareness to this"eminent Aboriginal person" and to the Coniston Massacre. "It it was the name the people chose to name the electorate after, I think people would embrace that," Ms Price said. Mr McConnell said the"considerable debate around Stuart as an explorer" weighed into the reasons behind calling for the name change.
Nice try ABC but this is directly from The Mint! The $2 coin man is an archetype of an Aboriginal man based on an picture that was an composite of real and imagined features. Also - all other coins have Australian fauna on them. racistcoin
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