{"id":16840,"date":"2013-10-03T09:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=16840"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:09:23","slug":"quotation-cv-australian-place-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=16840","title":{"rendered":"Australian place names."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The capital of India is not called Mountbatten and Malaysia\u2019s capital isn\u2019t Churchill. If Bombay can be renamed Mumbai, and Salisbury can become Harare, why can\u2019t Australia do a bit of renaming too?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Instead of tugging our forelocks in a show of collective servility to Mother England, the names of our capitals should reflect the distinctiveness of this glorious country and our amazing Aboriginal history.<\/p>\n<p>It is time Australia broke with the era of colonial occupation and dropped its obsequious inferiority complex. We are a unique nation and the names of our capital cities should reflect this uniqueness. Wouldn\u2019t Aboriginal names be more appropriate, imaginative and original?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>British-Australian LGBT, environmental and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell <a title=\"Australian Times: Time to rename...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.australiantimes.co.uk\/australia-day\/time-to-rename-aussie-capitals-with-aboriginal-place-names.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calls<\/a> for renaming Australian capitals. Tatchell is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">See also:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"Was der Uluru kann, kann Urtij\u00ebi schon lang.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=7309\"><code>01<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Canigou? Canig\u00f3!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=10823\"><code>02<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Toponomastik \u2014 n\u00fcchtern betrachtet.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=16091\"><code>03<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Demokratie oder Privatverein?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=9044\"><code>04<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Violenza culturale.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=8723\"><code>05<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"La Vetta e il fascismo buono.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=5659\"><code>06<\/code><\/a>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;\">||<\/span> <a title=\"Welcome back, Denali.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=25045\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>01<\/code><\/span><\/a> <a title=\"Fraser Island ritorna K\u2019gari.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=68045\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>02<\/code><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capital of India is not called Mountbatten and Malaysia\u2019s capital isn\u2019t Churchill. If Bombay can be renamed Mumbai, and Salisbury can become Harare, why can\u2019t Australia do a bit of renaming too? Instead of tugging our forelocks in a show of collective servility to Mother England, the names of our capitals should reflect the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","entity-verc","issue-geschichtsaufarbeitung","issue-good-news","issue-quotation","location-australia","language-english","topic-colonialismi","topic-ortsnamen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88570,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840\/revisions\/88570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}