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Renaming Kosciuszko
Manage episode 436855491 series 5439
There has been a long and complex conversation about the name of our highest mountain. Named after a Polish noble in 1843, the move towards a meaningful and accurate Indigenous name, to replace or co-exist alongside, continues.
GUESTS: Richard Swain High Country, river guide, Assoc Professor, Fenner School ANU, and Dr Harold Koch specialist in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, and co-editor of "Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscape" 2009 ANU Press
3328 episodes
Manage episode 436855491 series 5439
There has been a long and complex conversation about the name of our highest mountain. Named after a Polish noble in 1843, the move towards a meaningful and accurate Indigenous name, to replace or co-exist alongside, continues.
GUESTS: Richard Swain High Country, river guide, Assoc Professor, Fenner School ANU, and Dr Harold Koch specialist in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, and co-editor of "Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscape" 2009 ANU Press
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