Great place, love it. Like all the other places that have been renamed it'll always be known as Ben Boyd. For example Gariwerd is still known as The Grampians to almost everyone. We love eating the oysters off the ocean rocks at Sal****er Creek.
Edit: The forum doesn't seem to like the missing letters.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Wednesday 9th of November 2022 10:44:53 AM
Great place, love it. Like all the other places that have been renamed it'll always be known as Ben Boyd. For example Gariwerd is still known as The Grampians to almost everyone. We love eating the oysters off the ocean rocks at Sal****er Creek.
Edit: The forum doesn't seem to like the missing letters. -- Edited by 86GTS on Wednesday 9th of November 2022 10:44:53 AM
Seems the missing letters form an unacceptable word. "Salt Water" solves that problem! Cheers
I have not come across a politician yet that deserves to have a landmark named after them but here in Australia we have done exactly that, I would suggest that in the past is was done for favour.
Ben Boyd was not only a Politician but a Slaver Entrepreneur to boot, ah the good 'ole days hey what.
In the 1980s we got off the train at Otford. Walked to Era Beach, stayed in a friend's hut. We walked the coast track to Bundeena. Got ferry, then back on train to Circular Quay & ferry to Manly.
Sun rise Era Beach on film (transparency)
We will be a bit slower doing the coastal walk today!
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The forum doesn't seem to like the missing letters.
The simplest way to get around this issue is to bold half the supposedly rude word.
Then click in the html tab & change strong & /strong to span & /span.
Saltwater > Saltwater
it doesn't like the combination of letters Saltwater within a word.
Look at the HTML (top right corner) tab on this post to see how to get around the problem.
Then you can write any rude word like cockatoo or Cocklebiddy. You may even need to buy a cock valve for plumbing which is a technical description for precise clarification.
-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Thursday 10th of November 2022 09:19:56 AM
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I'm not usually a fan of these name changes which attempt to tipex out history but Ben Boyd was a particularly unpleasant character according to Wikipedia so, in this case, I'm pleased to see him go.
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Salt.water - coc.katoo
If I notice the word contains such I usually just insert a period - humans can effortlessly filter it but the machine is too stupid to understand.
Who the hell ever wrote naughty word filtering software without understanding the concept of delimiting characters or strings should have his keyboard confiscated and subsequently inserted into his sal****er!
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Same thing is happening in Gippsland VIC.
Scottish settlers like MacMillan killed many aborigines.
Place names are being changed & monuments relocated or got rid of altogether
They can change as many place names as they like but, they cannot change History, it is what it is.
Unfortunately these things are never simple. Australia's history post colonisation was changed & is currently in the process of changing again. What happened cannot change, but what is remembered & believed about what happened is a whole different ball game.
The danger is that if we change every location in Australia back to its first nations peoples original name we'll be completely lost as will the current generation of first nations people.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Saturday 12th of November 2022 07:34:48 PM
If we bury bad history like we are, we are bound to commit the same mistakes in the future because we will have no baseline to work from.
Absolutely, but we humans seem to be very good at going around in circles & making the same mistakes over & over & will no doubt continue to do so. Amazes me how often advice/thinking is 'no good looking back, only forwards', because that is exactly the thinking which ensures the mistake cycle will continue.
Problems don't go away with time, they hang around & keep re-surfacing in many ways until they are addressed & resolved - even from generation to generation.
-- Edited by Cuppa on Sunday 13th of November 2022 12:17:09 PM
Changing the names of places to recognise the original aboriginal names is in my view a worthy thing to do. Some colonisers/usurpers did adopt the local names for areas and some named places for their themselves, their sponsors or to curry favour. Some of those place names are named for less than meritorious people. That fact alone is not a reason for change, but if an aboriginal alternative is available, why not make a change. Australia has been occupied for many tens of thousands of years and the least that the current and future generations can do is try to preserve, absorb and understand that history. Renaming is a small step in that direction.
