The battle to name WA’s newest Federal electorate has intensified, with locals backing a joint name — Hodgson-Beard — rather than in honour of former prisoner of war Vivian Bullwinkel.
In comments responding to objections made to the Electoral Commission’s proposal for the new seat of Bullwinkel, a number of West Australians agreed with a push to name the electorate for two local nurses killed in the Bangka Island massacre — Sister Minnie Hodgson from Wickepin and Sister Alma Beard from Toodyay.
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