After a review of Victoria’s naming practices, a register will be set up to ensure any new place names aren’t offensive. Dual place names will also become more common as they have in places ...

New rules will prevent derogatory names being given to places across Victoria amid a push to celebrate women and include more Aboriginal languages in the titles of new streets and suburbs.

Place names throw up many linguistic issues that we need to consider in our analysis. Aboriginal languages in Victoria had sounds not used in English which could easily confuse European scribes ...

Some place names are directly adapted from Indigenous languages, while others are Anglicised forms, such as Cherrypool near Halls Gap which was taken from djarabul.

But Victoria is scattered with monuments and place names with racist or violent origins, including cairns in Gippsland recognising pastoralist Angus McMillan, who was linked to several massacres ...

Using the Aboriginal name for an area isn't as simple as, say, calling Melbourne "Naarm". Here's why finding the right name is more complex.

The ABC will be introducing a number of initiatives as part of their commitment to the ABC Elevate Reconciliation Plan, including an increase in use of Indigenous place names across programming ...

All of Victoria's new public schools will ditch English names in favour of Aboriginal titles in a bid to ensure children recognise the land's traditional owners ...

Thirteen gazetted Aboriginal place names in Tasmania written in the reconstructed palawa kani language will have their first letter changed from lower-case to upper-case.