I first heard about “The Great Emu War”, which the Australian army lost, when having a few drinks with friends. One mentioned it and we all laughed at her and told her that she’d fallen for some fake news story, but then she got her phone out, went to the Wikipedia page about ...
as in Johnno for John or Hughie for Hugh. There is no hard and fast rule for how this gets done but it is something you learn by listening to the sound.
In its editorial on 20 June 2005, Melbourne newspaper, The Age, said that "Frankland has raised an important question," and asked whether moving "work commemorating Aborigines who lost their lives defending their land ... to the War Memorial [would] change the way we regard Aboriginal history...