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Studio 10 host Narelda Jacobs has hit back at trolls who labelled her a hypocrite for accepting a King’s Birthday honour while fiercely opposing the monarchy.
The Indigenous journalist used Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September last year to call on the next British head of state to apologise for Australian colonisation.’There was a great wrong that was done,’ Jacobs said at the time.
‘Australia was settled without the consent of First Nations people that were here.’ On Monday, the Whadjuk woman was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for ‘service to the media, and to the community’ in the King’s Birthday Honour’s List. Studio 10 host Narelda Jacobs has hit back at trolls who labelled her a hypocrite for accepting a King’s Birthday honour while fiercely opposing the monarchy.
She is pictured at the 2022 Logies Jacobs addressed her decision to accept the award on Tuesday night during an episode of The Point — Referendum Road Trip on NITV.The 47-year-old said while most media coverage of her receiving the honour had been ‘lovely write-ups of congratulations’ she had also been subjected to ‘vile’ comments on social media.’The trolls really came out in force today and there was a lot of hate and a lot of people were saying about me being a hypocrite for accepting the award,’ she said.Jacobs then turned to fellow panelist, Teela Reid, an Indigenous lawyer and Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman.’Teela, why is it so triggering?’ the presenter asked.
‘Why do people feel the need to spread hate and to try and tear you down when something good happens to you?’Among the posts on Twitter was this comment: ‘Narelda Jacobs can spin it how she likes. In my opinion she is a hypocrite’. One Twitter user wrote of the Studio 10 host: ‘Narelda Jacobs is a hypocrite.
Excepting the Medal of the Order of Australia but forever bagging the system which makes her able to earn a decent crust’Another wrote: ‘Just wondering how Narelda Jacobs can accept hers after all her talk of colonisation and how we shouldn’t mourn the Queen etc.
Amazing hypocrisy after all her vitriol’.A third said: ‘Narelda Jacobs is a hypocrite. Excepting the Medal of the Order of Australia but forever bagging the system which makes her able to earn a decent crust.’Jacobs said one radio interviewer had spent 13 minutes talking to her about the award on Monday without there being any discussion of her achievements. ‘I didn’t once talk about my career in the media,’ she said. ‘It was all about being asked how did I feel about being accused of being a hypocrite because I’d said some comments, as a lot of us have, about the role of the monarchy in this country.’Jacobs, who was worked in television since 2000 and sits on the National Indigenous Advisory Group of Football Australia, said accepting the honour was ‘complicated’. The 47-year-old said while most media coverage of her receiving the honour had been ‘lovely write-ups of congratulations’ she had also been subjected to ‘vile’ comments on social media ‘I had to think long and hard before accepting the award,’ she said. ‘I wanted to accept it in a gracious way because it was thanks for the work that I’ve done over the last 23 years and I didn’t want to refuse that gratitude.’I thought about all of the First Nations people that have gone before me that have also accepted these types of honours and their belief in needing to be in the room to be able to change it. ‘And so that was my motivator because I’m a firm believer of being in the room to change it.’Jacobs’s late father Cedric, a Uniting Church minister and Indigenous leader, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1981 for ‘service to the Aboriginal community’.Her mother Margaret was also involved in the church and had migrated to Australia from Northern Ireland with her family. Joining Jacobs on The Point panel was another honours recipient, former Socceroo captain Craig Foster, who is now chair of the Australian Republican Movement.
Foster was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to multiculturalism, penipu to human rights and refugee support organisations, and to football’ in 2021. Asked by Jacobs if he had been called a hypocrite for accepting the nation’s third- highest honour, Foster said, ‘Probably.
I’m not sure but I was equally conflicted.»But my view is this is part of the contradictions in Australia that we need to move beyond,’ he told Jacobs. Foster said that contradiction lay ‘at the heart of the country’ and left many Australians ‘deeply uncomfortable’ that the British monarch was linked to the Honours system.’That’s why we think it’s time to move on and to acknowledge that part of history…
but you should have a right to be acknowledged by your fellow Australians without having these issues of guilt.'<div class="art-ins mol-factbox tvshowbiz" data-version="2" id="mol-e96fd670-0a56-11ee-853f-df0c81f242f7" website TV host hits back at trolls after King's Birthday honour
