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First student protest 2015. Must have been hand-wringing moans from conservatives bemoaning the change. Australia will lag some years behind you guys on name changes and bring down statues. Or, maybe too in some cases updated additions might not be a such a poor idea

Black Lives Matter protests renew push to remove 'racist' monuments to colonial figures
By Camron Slessor and Eugene Boisvert
Posted Wed 10 Jun 2020 at 11:32am
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"Why can't we replace these racist people and their statues with people who actually tried to bring our state together?" Ms Wanganeen said.
Removing statues 'removes discussion'

Australian National University history professor Bruce Scates is a proponent of "dialogical memorialisation", where things such as plaques are added to existing monuments to explain history from a modern perspective.

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One example is the Explorers' Monument in Fremantle, which now includes a plaque noting that the original memorial did not mention "the right of Aboriginal people to defend their land, or of the history of provocation which led to the explorers' deaths".

He said removing statues altogether "removed that opportunity for discussion", and suggested updating them with fuller historical accounts.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-10/black-lives-matter-protests-renew-push-to-remove-statues/12337058