In the last 5 years, Western Australia has increasingly been involved in public discourse, grass roots campaigns and various forms of writing which contest our knowledge of Governor Stirling. 

Albany is now a part of this growing renaming movement and holds the potential to show powerful leadership for the rest of the state as how best to navigate and implement the name change of Stirling Terrace.

Does Albany want to continue along a status quo approach to Stirling's legacy and leave 'history in the past' or do we as a community choose to participate in overdue truth telling which requires us to hold space for the deeply uncomfortable stories of colonisation ?

  https://junctionjournalism.com/2023/11/13/exploring-perths-stirling-legacy/

In the article (link above) written in 2023 by Tegan Shirdon,

     Curtin University history lecturer Dr André Brett said many people in society no longer believed it was appropriate to memorialise individuals when they participated in or authorised violent events. 

“The early governors of all the Australian colonies, now states, are implicated in various acts of violent dispossession or massacres. But in Stirling’s case, Pinjarra stands out as an especially violent and notorious sort of incident.”