Tonight, Blacktown City Council has passed the motion to 'debating the renaming of Blacktown City Council, there will be an option to keep the name Blacktown at the referendum,' as quoted by Councillor Isabelle White.
This has been brought up to Council as a motion many times but tonight, it seemed like it carried at eight by one vote at least.
The main problem is that the naming of Blacktown originally referred to the Aboriginal people living in communities in the area. This can be negative as the people living with Blacktown City Local Government area are from different backgrounds, countries, talk different languages, religions.
I'm
50/50 with this but because it may be because of potential merging with another Council -
this could boost the chance of a change of name. I know 6 Councillors
might like this suggestion from Wards 4 & 5, what about Mount Druitt
City Council? I also remember that it was raised by independent and
lost!!!! So this is good! My gut feeling is it may be named Great Western
Sydney City Council!
My negatives on this is three part: the cost of changing all paperwork, websites to a new branding and name of our City Council, then would there be the change of name of the suburb of Blacktown and finally, what would our sister cities think as well as our important community.
What do you think and how do think public opinion will be?
Check blog on changing Mount Druitt Suburbs Names
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