History Or Hoarding? With Annabel Crabb
May 19, 2026 · 27 min · 19 segments
Violating the "quiet" rule. The extraordinary, hilarious, heart-warming story of two young Indigenous trainee library curators who started on the same day at the Library 35 years ago, and became best…
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Well, for example, is you often think to yourself, "Why don't you just ask?" You know, you had Bennelong there.
Why don't you just ask him? "Well, Bennelong, what's your story? Who's, you know, who, who was your mother? What was she like?" You know?
Um, but why, why didn't the, why wasn't more an active and, and systematic approach to recording that sort of information? And you have to think, well, that's not what they were here for.
And, and, and for a lot of people at that time, the enemy, so you didn't even want-
As time went on, that overt hostility might have faded, but it got replaced by this hole in the library's collections where there should be Aboriginal stories.
Before the 1970s, a lot of Aboriginal people couldn't read and write, so r- you know, and so they're not gonna write it down.
Well, for example, is you often think to yourself, "Why don't you just ask?" You know, you had Bennelong there.
Why don't you just ask him? "Well, Bennelong, what's your story? Who's, you know, who, who was your mother? What was she like?" You know?
Um, but why, why didn't the, why wasn't more an active and, and systematic approach to recording that sort of information? And you have to think, well, that's not what they were here for.
And, and, and for a lot of people at that time, the enemy, so you didn't even want-
As time went on, that overt hostility might have faded, but it got replaced by this hole in the library's collections where there should be Aboriginal stories.
Before the 1970s, a lot of Aboriginal people couldn't read and write, so r- you know, and so they're not gonna write it down.
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