‘Recolonisation’: Greens in bid to stop Victoria renaming Maroondah hospital after late Queen

Aboriginal leader Jill Gallagher described the renaming as yet another piece of our culture erased and replaced by the culture of the invaders'

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The Greens have introduced a motion to Victorian parliament calling on the state government to immediately reverse its decision to rename Maroondah hospital after Queen Elizabeth II, describing the move as a form of recolonisation".

Victoria's premier, Daniel Andrews, on Sunday pledged to rebuild the hospital, in Melbourne's east, at a cost of $1bn and rename it after the late monarch if re-elected in November.

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