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Still not cheered by the change from Coon – and now there’s a Scrabble scuffle brewing

15 January 2021

12:26 PM

15 January 2021

12:26 PM

Every parent knows that if you give in to your toddler’s temper tantrums, you will receive as your reward even more temper tantrums. 

So I was not surprised to learn that the Indigenous activist who protested Coon Cheese was racist is now stomping his feet because he wasn’t consulted on the new name.

Stephen Hagan has spent the better part of 20 years complaining that he couldn’t go to the supermarket without being racially abused by the dairy fridge.

And so it came to be that Coon’s owners, Saputo Dairy Australia, eventually acquiesced and this week announced they would change the name from Coon to...

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