Macquarie University takes its name from a man known simultaneously as the founding father of Australia, its greatest colonial administrator, a key inspiration for Australia’s egalitarian ethos, the military strategist who authorised the Appin Massacre, and committed civiliser of the uncivilised native peoples of Sydney who established the first institutions aimed at educating Aboriginal children by separating from their families, culture, and language. This article explores Macquarie’s ambiguous legacy and considers how it is mobilised to promote the university. It discusses how the university community might engage with the “Macquarie legacy” and take responsibility for its implications for Macquarie University. Decolonising this particular university must involve much more than simple renaming—although even that would be far from simple. Transformation of the institution into a partner with Dharug and other Indigenous groups must involve uncomfortable and ultimately transformational reflection and action on the purposes, processes, and outcomes of education, on the nature and purposes of partnership, and more generally on the nature of decolonising transformations.

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挑战麦格理/在麦格理的殖民遗产

麦考瑞大学的名字来源于一个同时被称为澳大利亚的开国元勋、最伟大的殖民统治者、澳大利亚平等主义精神的主要灵感来源、授权阿平大屠杀的军事战略家，以及悉尼未开化土著人民的忠诚文明者。建立了第一批旨在通过脱离家庭、文化和语言来教育土著儿童的机构。本文探讨了麦格理的模棱两可的遗产，并考虑了如何动员它来促进大学的发展。它讨论了大学社区如何参与“麦考瑞遗产”并对其对麦考瑞大学的影响承担责任。对这所特定大学进行非殖民化绝不仅仅是简单的重命名——尽管这远非简单。