During the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names, and accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents.

Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia: a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra: Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995.

In 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency released a document in which the following indigenous names were recorded for H. chrysogaster.

Financial support came at first from the Australian Nature Conservation Agency and subsequently from BP Australia which pledged A$260,000 to the project over five years.

In 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency released a document in which were recorded two indigenous names for H. chrysogaster, the Murrinh-Patha name Manngay and the Mayali and Gunwinjgu name Yirrku.

He was Chief Scientist of the UK Nature Conservancy Council 1989-1990, Chief Executive of the Australian Nature Conservation Agency and Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (1990-1997) and Secretary of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme and Director of its Division of Ecological Sciences 1999-2003.

In 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency recommended that the name Rakali be used as the common name.

Accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents.