The group is fighting the move to change the municipality’s name to remove a connection to slavery, arguing the decision was presented as a fait accompli and the community was not consulted.
The council says residents backed the new name – meaning “rocky country” in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language – in a poll, as the authority ends a 28-year association with a Jamaican plantation that used slave labour.
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