| Title | ‘Nothing Has Changed’: The Making and Unmaking of Koori Culture |
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| Publication Title | Meanjin |
| Date | Winter 1992 |
| Abstract Note | You get somebody coming in, a foreigner at that, trying to tell us to rename our mountains. —Bob Stone, Stawell town councillor In March 1989 the Victorian Minister for Tourism, Steve Crabb, announced that the Grampians mountain range in western Victoria would ‘revert to their Aboriginal name, Guriward’ (which after further research was altered to Gariwerd). Although this initiative came from the Victorian Tourism Commission, and the local Koori community had not yet been consulted, the minister felt that he could already announce the names that would be ‘restored’: I expect that the Grampians will be known as Guriward, the […] |
| Resource Type | Journal Article |
| URL | https://meanjin.com.au/essays/nothing-has-changed-the-making-and-unmaking-of-koori-culture/ |
| Citation | Birch, T. (1992). ‘Nothing Has Changed’: The Making and Unmaking of Koori Culture. Meanjin. https://meanjin.com.au/essays/nothing-has-changed-the-making-and-unmaking-of-koori-culture/
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| Link to this record | http://ikbe-library.unimelb.edu.au/bibliography/AZ52JTAL/ |