You Can Now Send Mail Via Australia Post Using Traditional First Nations Place Names – Concrete Playground

This article was written on Yuggera Country. If you’d like to send a physical letter that acknowledges that fact, now you can. Since the end of August this year, Gomeroi woman Rachael McPhail has been leading a campaign to get Australia Post to recognise First Nations place names — and this week, coinciding with NAIDOC Week, the government enterprise has released guidelines on how you can include traditional names when you’re addressing letters and parcels.

As McPhail outlined in the first post from her @place_names_in_addresses Instagram account on August 31, “every area in this country had an original place name, prior to being given its colonial town/city name, and I believe that it’s important to…