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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michael McGowan

David Elliott intervened to stop department’s proposal to name Sydney Metro station after traditional custodians

NSW transport minister David Elliott speaks to the media at the new Sydney Metro Central Station project in February
David Elliott speaks to the media at a Sydney Metro site. The new transport minister reversed plans to name a station after the Gadigal people. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The New South Wales transport minister, David Elliott, personally intervened to reverse a departmental proposal to name a new underground metro station in the heart of Sydney after the traditional Aboriginal custodians of the land, despite it being signed off by a previous minister.

Elliott has reportedly instead proposed the station be named after Australia’s first Indigenous commissioned army officer.

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