In the chaos that looms from a shake-up of Tasmania's electorate boundaries, the island state is again being offered a chance to wrestle with its ugly history.
Tasmania's electoral map is being redrawn by the Australian Electoral Commission this year, with big changes afoot.
Current plans, out for public submission, would see more than a quarter of voters into a new electorate with different MPs, candidates and a new community of interest.
Along with feedback on the boundaries, the AEC is asking the public to consider a name change for one redrawn electorate: Franklin in the state's southeast.
A host of suggestions have emerged: Giddings, Bacon and Ogilvie, honouring past premiers; Donaldson, a nod to Tasmanian-born Danish Queen Mary's former surname; as well as places from the picturesque coastal patch.
Others have nominated significant Indigenous figures, the most popular being Truganini, whose death in 1876 led to the colonial Tasmanian government declaring the island's Aboriginal population extinct.
That claim, while untrue, stuck fat and is sometimes repeated even to this day, much to the angst of Aboriginal people.
Truganini was Bruny Island-born and saw vicious destruction and dispossession of Aboriginal communities during her life, including deaths and unexplained disappearances.
Her survival for six decades through the 19th century - what many scholars have labelled a genocide - means she has been lionised as the best-known historical Tasmanian Aboriginal.
However, Cassandra Pybus, who wrote a celebrated version of Truganini's history in 2020, says renaming Franklin after her would be "daft".
"That's not country associated with Truganini in any way, shape or form," she tells AAP.
"If you're naming a piece of country you should name it after that piece of country or the language group, otherwise it's a bit of tokenism where you just reach for the name you know."
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre campaigns manager Nala Mansell agrees, saying Truganini has a vexed place in history given "the racist myth she was the last full-blooded Aborigine".
"Of course she should be celebrated ... but her name and image has been used against her own people for 200 years as part of a claim we no longer exist," she says.
Ms Mansell says she is pleased an Aboriginal figure or place name are being considered for the new electorate.
AAP has asked the eight serving Franklin MPs - Federal MHR Julie Collins and the seven state MHAs - whether they believe their electorate should be renamed.
The Labor trio - Ms Collins, Dean Winter and Meg Brown - point to a party submission which argues the case to rename "lacks compelling justification".
Liberal pair Eric Abetz and Jacqui Petrusma haven't responded but the Liberals also argue to retain Franklin to "minimise voter confusion".
Greens leader Rosalie Woodruff says Franklin is inappropriate as its current namesake, English polar explorer Sir John Franklin, tasked with administering the colony in the 1830s, oversaw "the displacement, dispossession and marginalisation of Tasmanian Aboriginal people".
Independent Peter George "fully supports" an indigenous name, David O'Byrne says he is "not opposed" and the pair and Ms Woodruff agree it needs to be backed by the Aboriginal community.
Other submissions to the AEC suggest other figures: Chris Carswell makes the case for Tongerlongeter, a leader of the Oyster Bay tribes, noting their area appears remarkably similar to the new Franklin electorate.
Paredarerme, the name given to the Oyster Bay tribes, is another option listed by both Sorell Council and former Clarence mayor Doug Chipman.
"Such a change would not diminish existing historical narratives; rather, it broadens recognition of the diverse histories that shape Tasmania's civic landscape and aligns the electorate's identity more closely with its geography," Mr Chipman argues.
A smaller number of submitters also argue to retain Franklin owing to Sir John's service to Tasmania.
Ms Mansell says it is a matter of record that Sir John and his partner, Lady Jane Franklin, kept Aboriginal skulls as part of a personal collection, the latter noting in her diary they were an "inferior race".
Professor Pybus says the opportunity to rename the electorate would help inform Tasmanians of their history.
"I take very seriously the suggestion from the Aboriginal community that we should engage in truth-telling," she says.
"Aboriginal place naming is really significant and it does make a difference."
A number of electorates honour indigenous Austalians, including the Sydney seat of Bennelong, named after a Wangal man who was captured in 1789 and taken to meet the King.
Another is Lingiari, covering the NT outside Darwin, which honours land rights campaigner Vincent Lingiari.
Tasmania, where state electorates conventionally mirror the federal boundaries, is the only state without an electorate named after an Aboriginal person or name.
Guidelines exist for the renaming of electorates but offer contradictory pointers on whether a name change might proceed.
They state "every effort should be made" to retain names of original federation electorates - and Franklin dates back to 1903 - but that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander names "should be used where appropriate".
The AEC process continues with public hearings this month ahead of a declaration later this year.
Australian Associated Press