I'm assuming they aren't changing things so more profit from tourists goes to the "traditional owners" or anything like that. It's kind of great, how shallow yet damaging their activism is. Like a concert raising awareness about pollution, and then the next day the field it was held in is completely covered in trash.
I don't think it will really change much. Ayers rock is still known as Ayers rock. Anyone who says the native name will be met with "what?" unless they already included that they meant Ayers rock. It should still be pushed against, though.
I also think an important distinction, here, is that we don't call the Southwest NT the "Ayers Rock region" (well, some people might), whereas Fraser Island quite literally sits on the Fraser Coast (Region), which is a gazetted, formal, official, nationally-recognised name, not just a tourist thing...
This is a massive change, make no mistake about that. Like Frobisher's Bay, as Rat points out. Or the Queen Charlotte Islands (also Canada).
I had the staff at the fucking resort try to kick me out for calling it that. I'm not joking.
Amongst the whiteys who were there, like me, to climb it? Sure, your point holds. But if you think the woke left doesn't care, or doesn't insist on you using the "correct" name..? You got another thing coming, bruh.
I even had a white American girl yell at me, and end my friendship with her, for even daring to ASK whether she considered climbing, when she went prior to me. That's the kind of environment this shit brings, now...
I'm assuming they aren't changing things so more profit from tourists goes to the "traditional owners" or anything like that. It's kind of great, how shallow yet damaging their activism is. Like a concert raising awareness about pollution, and then the next day the field it was held in is completely covered in trash.
I don't think it will really change much. Ayers rock is still known as Ayers rock. Anyone who says the native name will be met with "what?" unless they already included that they meant Ayers rock. It should still be pushed against, though.
I also think an important distinction, here, is that we don't call the Southwest NT the "Ayers Rock region" (well, some people might), whereas Fraser Island quite literally sits on the Fraser Coast (Region), which is a gazetted, formal, official, nationally-recognised name, not just a tourist thing...
This is a massive change, make no mistake about that. Like Frobisher's Bay, as Rat points out. Or the Queen Charlotte Islands (also Canada).
Culture war, wooo... :-/
I mean, have you been to Ayers Rock..??
I had the staff at the fucking resort try to kick me out for calling it that. I'm not joking.
Amongst the whiteys who were there, like me, to climb it? Sure, your point holds. But if you think the woke left doesn't care, or doesn't insist on you using the "correct" name..? You got another thing coming, bruh.
I even had a white American girl yell at me, and end my friendship with her, for even daring to ASK whether she considered climbing, when she went prior to me. That's the kind of environment this shit brings, now...