A Northern Territory parliamentarian has made a bid to honor his electorate’s Indigenous heritage by renaming it.
If successful, Scott McConnell would rename the Stuart electorate as Gwoya, in honor of Gwoya Tjungurrayi, an Aboriginal elder and boomerang salesman that survived the 1928 Coniston massacre.
Mr Tjungurrayi’s likeness has previously been immortalized on the $2 coin, but many hope the name change will bring greater recognition to the massacre, and its survivors.