John MacKenzie chats with Senator Matthew Canavan about the changing of town names around Australia to an Indigenous alternative.

John MacKenzie chats with Senator Matthew Canavan about the changing of town names around Australia to an Indigenous alternative.Senator Canavan explained how a historically common motivation for changing a town's name is when a new ruling or revolutionary body wishes to erase the memory of its predecessors. A prime example is the renaming of St Petersburg to Leningrad following the violent Bolshevik revolution in Russia in the early twentieth century.