Big stories run through the exhibition
Big Weather and other works in the NGV Collection, serving as a reminder of our reciprocal relationship with the weather, as well as the continuous and important nature of storytelling. As Dr Jared M. Field says, stories need to be told and retold, enabling us to both carry responsibility and pass it on. He shares a few of the works whose big stories resonate with him.
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Wanjina of Alec Mingelmanganu creep me out. But goodways, you know? They remind me of childhood and long hours listening to ghost stories. Stories that were told always in the same setting: a thin sheet on the floor, a pack of cards, and tea aplenty. And always by the same people: mum, aunties, and aunties that aren’t aunties but definitely are. These stories often left me scared, but also feeling protected. Protected, of course, because of who was doing the telling: there is no safer place than the arms of an old Black lady. These stories now also provide comfort, in t
Fired for not being âseductiveâ enough, Jane Singleton looks back on her career
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January is generally a big month for former ABC journalist Jane Singleton. Thirty-five Januaries ago, she began work as the first host of the national broadcasterâs nightly current affairs program â the hour-long
7.30 Report (now
7.30) â on her 39th birthday. The show aired a few weeks later on January 28, 1986.
She shares her January 13 birthdate with her once-nemesis, the late Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Queenslandâs longest serving conservative premier, who refused to speak to her on television and ordered his Country Party cabinet to do likewise. Despite his public ban after a particularly bruising interview when she hosted ABCâs