Melbourne council residents vote to change name associated with slave trade

In an act of reconciliation' Moreland council, in the city's inner-north, will soon be known officially as Merri-bek

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A Melbourne council has been given the green light to change its name, formally cutting ties with an 18th-century Jamaican slave estate by month's end.

Moreland city council will become Merri-bek council on 26 September after the name was officially approved and published in the government gazette on Thursday.

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