Media

Media mentions:

Tony Wright, ‘Mount Buffalo, the sacred mountain of secrets, is closed’, The Age, September 12, 2025

Tony Wright quoted Jacqui’s paper, ‘Mogullumbidj: first people of Mount Buffalo’ in this article for The Age, concerning the closure of Mount Buffalo during the hunt for fugitive Dezi Freeman.

Benjamin Preiss, ‘Unique’ Beechworth precinct joins Uluru, Barrier Reef on national heritage list’, The Age, 17 August, 2024

Benjamin Preiss reported on the National Estate listing of the Beechworth Heritage Precinct for The Age. This was a project on which Jacqui worked with heritage advisor Deb Kemp.

Photo credit: Jason Robins and The Age

The Years of Terror – Banbu-Deen: Kulin and Colonists at Port Phillip, 1835-1851, by Marguerita Stephens with Fay Stewart Muir, 2023

Jacqui reviewed Marguerita Stephens’ book for the Professional Historians Association, 6 November 2024.

Erin Somerville and Joseph Thomsen, ‘Beechworth Principles sent to Attorney-General to try to make government more accountable’, ABC News, Tuesday 18 February, 2020

Erin Somerville and Joseph Thomsen from the ABC reported on the public launch of Federal member of Indi Helen Haines’s ‘Beechworth Principles’ at the Beechworth Court House, where Jacqui was one of three other speakers besides Helen Haines. Jacqui spoke about the historic precedents for principals of integrity in government established during Beechworth’s gold rush era.

Photo credit: The Border Mail

Ellen Ebsary, ‘Humour and surprise spices up 23rd Opera in the Alps’, The Border Mail, January 20, 2019

Ellen Ebsary reported for The Border Mail on the 23rd Opera in the Alps, at which Jacqui delivered the acknowledgement of country, for the first time ever at this event in Dhudhuroa language.

Photo credit: Jerun Terlaak, Scout Studio

‘Historian acknowledges First National People’, Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Thursday 24 January 2019