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https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/..._UVSNQFTsjUwdUYou may or may not have noticed there are a lot of street names in Wollongong that recognise dead white men.
And there are very few that are named after women or Indigenous people.
Wollonong City Council has realised this and is going to change it.
Councillors voted, at Monday’s council meeting, to amend the Road Naming Policy to use relevant local, cultural, historic or natural themes when naming road to ensure there is gender equality.
Greens councillor Mithra Cox has welcomed the amended policy because she was fed up with street names that only memorialised men.
“In Wollongong there are six streets named after Alberts, eight James, four Davids, nine variations on Robert and a ridiculous 15 variations on George including those named after George Fuller, George Hanley, George Cheadie, George Evans and George Tate,” she said. “If you judged us by our street names, you would assume that there were either hardly any women living in our city, or that they made no contribution to our public life.
I did not expect Wollongong to be this retarded.
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