(Tim accidentally attributed some remarks to me that were actually made by Ed Poor. No big problem, I just note it in case it comes up in the future!)
Ed said, essentially, "Whatever Mav wants is fine with me."
Mav is quoted thusly:
There was a push to have Australian cities preemptively disambiguated a while ago (just as American and Canadian cities are), but that movement seemed to loose steam. I'm not sure what the Aussies want now.
Well, I can tell you what three of the Aussies want: Tannin and I are in favour of simple names and Karen's happy to go along (although she argued for preemptive disambiguation originally). As far I as can see Robert Merkel has not expressed an opinion. That only leaves the less regular contributors such as Arno and Peter Eckersley (Pde).
I think we should do the same thing for all countries, or at least all English speaking countries, or for all cities that meet some popular recognition threshold, whatever that may be.
--Jimbo