00:00All of these landmarks have one thing in common, the same name.
00:06Western Australia's first governor, James Stirling, led a group of armed officials to ambush a Noongar camp in Pinjarra 191 years ago,
00:15where they killed Indigenous men, women and children.
00:19Use of colonial figures' names have long been debated,
00:22but a historic apology to the Bindjerup Noongar people for the Pinjarra massacre has reignited conversation.
00:28One Noongar researcher says the current governor's apology is significant.
00:32I think we're going to see more scrutiny and questioning and dialogue about place names after colonial figures
00:40who have been involved in atrocity against Aboriginal people.
00:44She says there needs to be respectful conversation about names with Aboriginal people, given their trauma.
00:50It's really been a message to Aboriginal people that actually, you know, we haven't mattered and our people's lives haven't mattered here.
00:56The City of Stirling's Mayor says while the conversation is open around name change, there's a process.
01:02We've got to not only understand how we would achieve it, we've got to understand what it would cost
01:08and we've got to understand the implications that flow on from that.
01:11The City says it's prioritising its fourth reconciliation action plan.
01:16They include things like institutional integrity,
01:19they include things like relationships with people in the community, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal,
01:23and meaningful outcomes with things like employment, equity and equality.
01:28While the State Government says it's not planning to change names like Stirling across WA,
01:33it admits there are conversations to be had with Aboriginal people following the WA Governor's apology.
01:39So yeah, this is part of the debate.
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