The Cooks River in southwest Sydney could be renamed to Goolay’yari as part of a local government-backed proposal to honour its Aboriginal heritage.
Sydney 's Cooks River could be the latest landmark to undergo an Indigenous name change if a proposal from an Aboriginal alliance that includes local councils and Sydney Water goes ahead.
"If he had 'discovered' it today, he wouldn't call it after himself. He probably would ask what it was called." "If you look at it from Google Earth, that looks like the foot of the pelican. So we say that's the foot of the pelican," he said. Australian author and Sky News Australia contributor Kel Richards joined radio host Ben Fordham on 2GB having confirmed previously, of the four million place names across Australia, 75 per cent of them are already Indigenous.
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