The Sydney ferry naming scandal deepens when you carefully examine a list of names initially rejected as nonsense.
The Minister's insistence on Ferry McFerryface is what people get upset about but I love some of the other suggestions. I liked "Halal Snack Pack" myself.
However, the most insensitive dismissal is number 10 "Pemulwuy" the name of an Sydney Aboriginal who resisted early white settlement.
According to Richard Green in an ABC Message Stick episode, "with simple spears, rocks, boomerangs, stones, he [Pemulwuy] defeated the British army that they sent here. Every single soldier except for Watkin Tench, that they sent in pursuit of Pemulwuy either walked back into the community with their saddle over their shoulders or they didn't make it back."
More detail on Wikipedia
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