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The Australian’s ‘Strewth’ column reports on Shane Foley, the breakfast announcer at the ABC’s regional radio station in Western Australia’s southern wheat belt, who is still chuckling over the ongoing reaction to his April Fool’s Day joke. A week after he claimed on air that Geoff Gallop’s Government was going to change the names of local towns to make them easier for tourists to understand, angry residents are still phoning their MPs and writing letters of protest to the WA Premier. Foley broadcasts from Wagin (230km north of Albany) – where he is surrounded by towns such as Gnowangerup, Tambellup, Kojonup and Narrogin. Although the names are all but unpronounceable to anyone but a Sandgroper, the locals love them.