STOP foreign affairs department removing the word "mateship" from a Kokoda memorial. Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-foreign-affairs-department-removing-the-word-mateship-from-a-kokoda-memorial.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 5 Apr 2026 10:04 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Christina Hawkins [Signature #5160] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24527864?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:09:15 UTC 24527864 Carson Loveless [Signature #5159] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24516816?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:30:37 UTC 24516816 Jonathan Inwood [Signature #5158] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24507980?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:36:35 UTC 24507980 Kim Dongheyon [Signature #5157] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24506074?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:36:16 UTC 24506074 Anonymous [Signature #5156] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24337240?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2022 01:19:46 UTC 24337240 Monica Lau [Signature #5155] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24225233?utm_medium=rss I hope they leave the word "mateship" because isn't that what Australians are all about? all this political correctness should be used somewhere else not on something that is part of a memorial...

]]> Thu, 3 Mar 2022 05:53:05 UTC 24225233 Anonymous [Signature #5154] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24213001?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:58:48 UTC 24213001 Anonymous [Signature #5153] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24210408?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:04:27 UTC 24210408 Tami Moellenberndt [Signature #5152] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24208199?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Jan 2022 03:09:28 UTC 24208199 梓珽 梁 [Signature #5151] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24207627?utm_medium=rss Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:06:50 UTC 24207627 Bernadette Towan [Signature #5150] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24128025?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Jun 2021 05:26:31 UTC 24128025 Selena Payne [Signature #5149] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24117131?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 May 2021 09:10:52 UTC 24117131 Natalie Wood [Signature #5148] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24092988?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2021 06:53:01 UTC 24092988 Pamela Holbert [Signature #5147] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24080286?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Apr 2021 04:31:10 UTC 24080286 Beverley Holmes [Signature #5146] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24018521?utm_medium=rss Thu, 4 Feb 2021 12:34:51 UTC 24018521 AshaKanta Sharma [Signature #5145] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24016044?utm_medium=rss I support the petition.

]]> Tue, 2 Feb 2021 02:25:26 UTC 24016044 Anonymous [Signature #5144] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23953759?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:48:24 UTC 23953759 Raymond Meredith [Signature #5143] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23891959?utm_medium=rss Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:17:04 UTC 23891959 Christopher Nugent [Signature #5142] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23885461?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:39:26 UTC 23885461 cade Logue [Signature #5141] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23840798?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:32:56 UTC 23840798 Charles Chambers [Signature #5140] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23837511?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:16:46 UTC 23837511 Andrew Ross [Signature #5139] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23822751?utm_medium=rss These words have been the same for 100+ years .who are they to change this .leave it and fix a real problem

]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:17:55 UTC 23822751 HOWARD ALEXANDER STAFFORD [Signature #5138] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23802848?utm_medium=rss NEVER CHANGE WHAT IS SACRED!!!
PERIOD!!!

]]> Sat, 8 Aug 2020 06:17:44 UTC 23802848 Anonymous [Signature #5137] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23747180?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:08:42 UTC 23747180 Enoch Mundall [Signature #5136] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23746059?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:25:25 UTC 23746059 Anonymous [Signature #5135] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23683991?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Jun 2020 08:33:18 UTC 23683991 Mrs Anita [Signature #5134] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23683539?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Jun 2020 05:18:50 UTC 23683539 Anonymous [Signature #5133] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23682520?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:02:46 UTC 23682520 sharon benedict [Signature #5132] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23673201?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:26:49 UTC 23673201 sarah kerr [Signature #5131] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23668105?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:24:19 UTC 23668105 Danielle Grigg [Signature #5130] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23646511?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Jun 2020 01:26:46 UTC 23646511 Anne Owen [Signature #5129] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23623032?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 May 2020 09:44:11 UTC 23623032 Narelle Shaw [Signature #5128] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23622114?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 May 2020 04:17:09 UTC 23622114 Kelly Barner [Signature #5127] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23553229?utm_medium=rss Whoever first spoke of this should be hiding because their so ashamed of the words exiting their mouths,it’s pathetic that anyone could even think of this,if it were the name of your own house,that’d be up to you,if you got a load of ingredients together and came up with a name for it then fill your boots with that one too,but this I cannot fathom why anybody would think they had a right to talk about it let alone try to actually do it,shame shame shame on you!!!

]]> Sat, 18 Apr 2020 06:47:23 UTC 23553229 Bob gough [Signature #5126] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23497916?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:05:45 UTC 23497916 richard johnson [Signature #5125] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23487631?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Mar 2020 07:14:11 UTC 23487631 Thomas Reisinger [Signature #5124] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23485264?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Mar 2020 11:02:23 UTC 23485264 Anonymous [Signature #5123] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23463478?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Feb 2020 01:34:26 UTC 23463478 jacqueline roberts [Signature #5122] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23420540?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:02:16 UTC 23420540 Anonymous [Signature #5121] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23241095?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:52:24 UTC 23241095 Manu S-M [Signature #5120] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23238130?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Sep 2019 02:38:20 UTC 23238130 Anonymous [Signature #5119] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23200598?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Aug 2019 01:29:55 UTC 23200598 Anonymous [Signature #5118] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23187993?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Jul 2019 01:57:06 UTC 23187993 David Connery [Signature #5117] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23181255?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Jul 2019 08:34:23 UTC 23181255 Daria Zagorski [Signature #5116] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23157259?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:54:48 UTC 23157259 B Holland [Signature #5115] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23077380?utm_medium=rss These wankers need to be made to serve in our military-they have nothing better to do!!

]]> Thu, 23 May 2019 11:20:08 UTC 23077380 Anonymous [Signature #5114] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23057661?utm_medium=rss Fri, 10 May 2019 09:18:26 UTC 23057661 johan le roux [Signature #5113] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23019732?utm_medium=rss I have no direct connection to this, but this sort of change dishonors the men who where involved

]]> Thu, 2 May 2019 06:08:01 UTC 23019732 Jomar Nabong [Signature #5112] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22892709?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:43:53 UTC 22892709 Janette Klein [Signature #5111] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22886303?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:02:55 UTC 22886303 Sue Bailey [Signature #5110] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22754553?utm_medium=rss Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:41:08 UTC 22754553 Anonymous [Signature #5109] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22609834?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:34:54 UTC 22609834 Kerry Millar [Signature #5108] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22604070?utm_medium=rss How dare this SCUM attempt this hideous action. This must not be allowed to happen. Bishop you are a traitor to this once great country.

]]> Sat, 3 Nov 2018 12:14:14 UTC 22604070 Anonymous [Signature #5107] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22585328?utm_medium=rss Learned in my military career I needed mateship to be able to survive. My mates were my family.

]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:31:17 UTC 22585328 Geeta Sharma [Signature #5106] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22509007?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Sep 2018 02:28:08 UTC 22509007 Anonymous [Signature #5105] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22299114?utm_medium=rss This is a disgrace, This is a sacred and respected place that has no room for politics it should me mateship and should never change

]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:32:19 UTC 22299114 Robin Mayhall [Signature #5104] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22260668?utm_medium=rss I've read a lot about the Australian and New Zealander POWs who were forced by the Japanese to build the "Death Railroad" to Burma during World War II. So much I've read includes the concept of mateship. It was so important to those men! Please don't make this so-called "modern" change!

]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:20:57 UTC 22260668 Guy Holme [Signature #5103] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22197045?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 May 2018 07:45:30 UTC 22197045 ms Lewis [Signature #5102] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22145954?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:08:20 UTC 22145954 Roger Ward [Signature #5101] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22123164?utm_medium=rss They where mates, something a politician would not understand

]]> Sat, 7 Apr 2018 10:36:54 UTC 22123164 Mark Gilmore [Signature #5100] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22112687?utm_medium=rss Mateship is mateship. And i have lots of female mates. Leave it as it is.

]]> Mon, 2 Apr 2018 06:31:34 UTC 22112687 Anonymous [Signature #5099] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22112288?utm_medium=rss Sun, 1 Apr 2018 10:38:32 UTC 22112288 Danielle Thorn [Signature #5098] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22111555?utm_medium=rss Ridiculous! Wake up Bishop dont you have better things to focus your energy on? These men deserve the respect to be left alone and Rest In Peace with the tribute and respect they deserve. Your turning it into something its Not!

]]> Sun, 1 Apr 2018 10:19:57 UTC 22111555 Anonymous [Signature #5097] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22102121?utm_medium=rss Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:28:43 UTC 22102121 Jeremy Tessier [Signature #5096] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22072581?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Mar 2018 10:46:05 UTC 22072581 michael graham [Signature #5095] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21972810?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Jan 2018 04:07:48 UTC 21972810 Anonymous [Signature #5094] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914210?utm_medium=rss This is an absolute insult to these bravemen leave the name as it is Bishop

]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:46:31 UTC 21914210 Anonymous [Signature #5093] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21888806?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:30:10 UTC 21888806 Anonymous [Signature #5092] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21871361?utm_medium=rss I am so sick of desk bound office jockeys making decisions way out of their league.
Just leave it at 'mateship' and stop this PC crap.

]]> Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:22:28 UTC 21871361 Peter Thompson [Signature #5091] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21865511?utm_medium=rss Who is the " Wanker " behind having the word " Mateship " removed from the Memorial. Wake up to yourself. If you are a Bloke you deserve to be ''Jobbed''. If you are a Women you need to be away from the Public with a scrubbing brush cleaning toilets. Mateship in war kept our forces strong to give us what we enjoy today in this country.

]]> Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:56:17 UTC 21865511 Malcolm Ferguson [Signature #5090] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21804673?utm_medium=rss Wed, 8 Nov 2017 05:50:50 UTC 21804673 Anonymous [Signature #5089] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21720725?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:01:29 UTC 21720725 Patricia Wright [Signature #5088] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21715225?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:26:16 UTC 21715225 alison raynor [Signature #5087] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21701452?utm_medium=rss "We, the undersigned, call on Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to stop the renaming of Mateship to Friendship on the Kokoda Trail.
It seems truly unAustralian and disrespectful to the brave men and women who gave all that we might live in peace to remove this intensly meaningful word. Mateship and friendship are not the same thing. Ask any soldier! Ask any Aussie!

]]> Thu, 5 Oct 2017 02:33:01 UTC 21701452 Abigail Pottorff and Kanylia Reid [Signature #5086] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21648287?utm_medium=rss Thank you for this

]]> Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:57:08 UTC 21648287 Anonymous [Signature #5085] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21644553?utm_medium=rss Sat, 9 Sep 2017 11:17:45 UTC 21644553 Sara Aguzzi [Signature #5084] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21628229?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Sep 2017 06:19:59 UTC 21628229 Michael Baggett [Signature #5083] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21595466?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:25:22 UTC 21595466 Nicholas Snowdon [Signature #5082] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21548257?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Aug 2017 06:39:13 UTC 21548257 ken pollock [Signature #5081] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21514573?utm_medium=rss this is nothing but polical correctness gone mad ,these men fought up &around the kokoda track, all they had is there mates ,they fought along side each other ,they died alongside each other ,all they had wqas each other they became mates ,it did not matter if you came from w.a ,or Victoria,because that is all thery had was each other ,to take that way is is crap ,leave it alone ,because the bureaucrats would not know what mate ship was .

]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:05:10 UTC 21514573 Anonymous [Signature #5080] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21487992?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Jul 2017 04:26:00 UTC 21487992 Andrea Luck [Signature #5079] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21457771?utm_medium=rss Sun, 25 Jun 2017 02:17:38 UTC 21457771 Warren Brown [Signature #5078] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21448197?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Jun 2017 03:16:59 UTC 21448197 Gary Ennis [Signature #5077] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21431481?utm_medium=rss The first time in WW2 the Japanese advance towards Australua was halted by the Australian Army, proving the Japanese were not invincable!

]]> Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:48:33 UTC 21431481 Leanne Bree [Signature #5076] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21430758?utm_medium=rss Honour our fallen 'mates'

]]> Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:15:02 UTC 21430758 Anonymous [Signature #5075] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21420221?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:48:42 UTC 21420221 Anonymous [Signature #5074] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21417905?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Jun 2017 03:59:26 UTC 21417905 Anonymous [Signature #5073] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21409900?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:52:13 UTC 21409900 steven sterns [Signature #5072] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21395180?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:50:33 UTC 21395180 Stuart Curtis [Signature #5071] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21382610?utm_medium=rss I am confident the number of signatures would increase tenfold or more if there was widespread awareness of this attack on such a basic attribute of Australian character. I am also confident julie Bishop would feel the ame way.

]]> Mon, 5 Jun 2017 05:59:44 UTC 21382610 Jose Ovidio Morel [Signature #5070] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21377826?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jun 2017 07:53:04 UTC 21377826 Anonymous [Signature #5069] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21371836?utm_medium=rss Wed, 31 May 2017 11:43:08 UTC 21371836 joe cormier [Signature #5068] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21371502?utm_medium=rss Wed, 31 May 2017 06:52:24 UTC 21371502 Paul Sheeran [Signature #5067] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21370859?utm_medium=rss Wed, 31 May 2017 11:59:02 UTC 21370859 HOWARD ALEXANDER STAFFORD [Signature #5066] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21363391?utm_medium=rss Another case of PC thinking destroying our blessed customs and culture. What deranged individual would actually complain about the beautiful term "mateship" It is simply crazy and would hope everyone supports this common sense position. Thank you.

]]> Sun, 28 May 2017 07:40:53 UTC 21363391 David Keegan [Signature #5065] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21355527?utm_medium=rss Dont stuff around with things that Australian Legends are made of.

My Grandfather didnt fight in both WW1 & WW2 for you Julie Bishop to stuff around with political correctness

Australian Diggers would be rolling in their graves. PLEASE......grow up & leave things be ! David Keegan

]]> Wed, 24 May 2017 04:15:05 UTC 21355527 jon beau [Signature #5064] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21336119?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 May 2017 09:53:11 UTC 21336119 Anonymous [Signature #5063] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21321429?utm_medium=rss Leave it as it is!!!

]]> Mon, 8 May 2017 12:32:00 UTC 21321429 Anonymous [Signature #5062] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21290809?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Apr 2017 01:17:57 UTC 21290809 Chris Wille [Signature #5061] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21288526?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:14:16 UTC 21288526