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Palaszczuk denies claim Brisbane will be renamed

29 June 2023

1:23 PM

29 June 2023

1:23 PM

Social media went crazy yesterday afternoon when 4BC host Peter Gleeson casually mentioned that there were plots afoot to change Brisbane’s name to something Indigenous before the 2032 Olympics.

After the news went viral, you could almost hear the ‘No’ vote surging in response. Millions of ordinary Australians rolled their eyes and decided that ‘enough is enough’ with this erasure of culture and history in service of activism.

‘No, that is absolute nonsense,’ the Queensland Premier replied – although a lot of Queenslanders would like her to write that denial in a binding contract, just to be on the safe side.

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