Editing Jeff Kennett (section)

====Macedonian name dispute====
[[ File:Grand Central apartments, Spencer Street, Melbourne 25.jpg|thumb|Kennett speaking at a event]]
In the mid-1990s, Premier Kennett backed the Greek position over the [[Macedonia naming dispute|Macedonian question]]<ref name="Danforth172"/> in his attempts to shore up local electoral support.<ref name="Jakubowicz3">{{cite conference|last=Jakubowicz|first=Andrew|title=The State, Multiculturalism and Ethnic Leadership in Australia|conference=Joint Seminar – Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Australian Studies Centre, and the Centre for Multicultural Education|page=3|date=26 June 1995|publisher=University of London|url=http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/doc/jakubowicz_5.pdf|access-date=7 July 2022|archive-date=28 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328194058/http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/doc/jakubowicz_5.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Kennett's stance gained him supporters from the Melburnian [[Greek Australians|Greek community]], whereas he was referred to as "Kennettopoulos" by the [[Macedonian Australians|Macedonian community]].<ref name="Danforth172">{{cite book|last=Danforth|first=Loring M.|title=The Macedonian conflict: Ethnic nationalism in a transnational world|year=1997|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691043562|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MkT_DwAAQBAJ&q=Kennett+Macedonian&pg=PA172|page=172}}</ref>

At Kennett's insistence, his state government in 1994 issued its own directive that all its departments refer to the language as "[[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] (Slavonic)" and to [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonians]] as "Slav Macedonians".<ref name="ClyKip27"/><ref name="Mulheron294">{{harvnb|Mulheron|2020|p=294.}}</ref> Reasons given for the decision were "to avoid confusion", be consistent with federal naming protocols toward Macedonians and repair relations between Macedonian and Greek communities.<ref name="ClyKip27"/><ref name="Mulheron293294">{{cite book|last=Mulheron|first=Rachael|title=Class Actions and Government|year=2020|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107043978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dPQDwAAQBAJ&dq=Victorian+premier+Macedonian&pg=PA294|pages=293–294|access-date=19 March 2023|archive-date=24 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824052024/https://books.google.com/books?id=2dPQDwAAQBAJ&dq=Victorian+premier+Macedonian&pg=PA294|url-status=live}}</ref> It was accepted that it would not impact the way Macedonians self identified themselves.<ref name="ClyKip27">{{harvnb|Clyne|Kipp|2006|p=27.}}</ref> The decision upset Macedonians, as they had to use the terms in deliberations with the government or its institutions related to education and public broadcasting.<ref name="ClyKip28">{{harvnb|Clyne|Kipp|2006|p=28.}}</ref> The Macedonian Community challenged the decision on the basis of the [[Racial Discrimination Act 1975|Race Discrimination Act]].<ref name="ClyKip29"/> After years of litigation at the Australian [[Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission]] (HREOC), the [[Australian Federal Court|Federal Court]] and [[Australian Federal Court|High Court]], previous judicial rulings were upheld that found Kennett's directive unlawful as it caused discrimination based on ethnic background and was struck down from usage in 2000.<ref name="ClyKip29">{{cite book|last1=Clyne|first1=Michael G.|last2=Kipp|first2=Sandra|title=Tiles in a Multilingual Mosaic: Macedonian, Filipino and Somali in Melbourne|year=2006|publisher=Pacific Linguistics|isbn=9780858835696|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/146737/1/578_Clyne%26Kipp.pdf|page=29|access-date=7 July 2022|archive-date=25 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625152603/https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/146737/1/578_Clyne%26Kipp.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>