The survey found 56 per cent of the 2112 respondents did not want the name changed. Coon Island and Coon Island Point are located in a low-lying area at the head of the Swansea Channel, opposite Pelican. The area is Awabakal land, with archaeological evidence dating back at least 7800 years ago showing occupation and widespread hunting areas. Lake Macquarie City Council councillor Kevin Baker said Coon Island was named after its original inhabitant Herbert Heaney, who was a man of Anglo-Saxon origin. Herbert was a coal miner and when he used to come back out of the pit, he got a very unfortunate nickname, Baker said.
Lake Macquarie councillors vote in favour of renaming Coon Island as Pirrita Island
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Real Housewives of Sydney star Victoria Rees slams renaming of Coon cheese to Cheer
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Indigenous newspaper sues Jacinta Price over Sky News comments
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First Nations Telegraph is taking News Corp-owned Australian News Channel and Alice Springs deputy mayor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the Federal Court over comments the aspiring federal politician made on the
Outsiders program.
In documents filed to the Federal Court last Friday, the three applicants First Nations Telegraph Pty Ltd, managing editor Dr Stephen Hagan, and his wife and First Nations Telegraph co-owner, Rhonda Hagan, said a statement made by Ms Price on Australian News Channel’s Sky News was defamatory.
Jacinta Price has been accused of defaming indigenous e-newspaper First Nations Telegraph and its owners Dr Stephen and Rhonda Hagan.
Woke activists, cancel culture panned Protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Perth last year. Picture: AAP Image/Richard Wainwright
News by Angie Raphael 3rd Jun 2021 12:01 AM | Updated: 12:01 AM
“Woke” activists who are pushing the so-called “cancel culture” are presenting three dangers to society intolerance, rage and an emphasis of difference, according to the author of a new report.
Peter Kurti of the Centre for Independent Studies says critical theory activists are effectively silencing people who have what are considered to be oppressive views.
“Firstly, we are confronted with the erosion of tolerance when ‘unacceptable’ opinions are denounced,” Mr Kurti said.