{"id":1686,"date":"2013-11-27T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:38:40","slug":"big-australian-stories-need-to-be-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Big Australian Stories need to be told"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Seymour (ex Hunters and Collectors), composer for and performer in new musical play, &#8220;Dust&#8221; (about asbestos) says &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in the big Australian stories.&nbsp;They need to be told.&#8221;&nbsp; On the other hand, Karl Van Dyke from Macquarie University&nbsp;reflects on national&nbsp;beliefs&nbsp;when discussing that the Romans believed themselves direct&nbsp;descendants of the Trojans and twins Romulus and Remus, suckled by a wolf in the hills around Rome, &#8220;There is no truth in national myths. We are what we think we are.&#8221; [&#8220;Making Dust&#8221; Artscape, ABC TV1, 26 November 2013; Karl Van Dyke&nbsp;talk&nbsp;on&nbsp;&#8220;Roman Gardens&#8221; at the Australian National Botanic Gardens Canberra, 28 November 2013]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Seymour (ex Hunters and Collectors), composer for and performer in new musical play, &#8220;Dust&#8221; (about asbestos) says &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in the big Australian stories.&nbsp;They need to be told.&#8221;&nbsp; On the other hand, Karl Van Dyke from Macquarie University&nbsp;reflects on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}