Three months after a hotly contested by-election in the Melbourne seat of Batman, its name has been ditched in favour of one recognising an indigenous leader.
The electorate in the city's inner north won by Labor's Ged Kearney in March following a close battle with Greens candidate Alex Bhathal, will be named the Division of Cooper in honour of activist William Cooper.
The seat had been named after John Batman, a founder of modern Melbourne who spent the 1820s and 1830s tracking and hunting Tasmanian indigenous people.
Ms Kearney says she is "thrilled" about the change, which follows years of campaigning by Wurundjeri elders.
"By changing the name from Batman to Cooper, we acknowledge the suffering of First Nations peoples caused by colonisation and our future as an inclusive and respectful society," she said in a statement.
The former president of the ACTU had noted her hopes the seat's name would be changed in her maiden speech to parliament last month.
There was a campaign for it to acknowledge Simon Wonga, a Wurrundjeri leader of the 1850s.'
The Australian Electoral Commission rejected a proposal for that name last month but unanimously agreed to Cooper on Wednesday.
Mr Cooper - a Yorta Yorta man - helped establish the Australian Aborigines League to advocate for a fair deal for indigenous Australians, including on land rights and representation in parliament.
He also forged the establishment of National Aborigines Day, first celebrated in 1940, which is now celebrated as NAIDOC week.
Australian Associated Press