The man who recorded Mick Jagger, gave the world a winking kangaroo in 1982 and put pink submarines in the Brisbane River for World Expo has another Olympics on his mind.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.By the time Brisbane’s Olympic Games rolls around, Matilda, the 13-metre-tall kangaroo that 1982 Commonwealth Games director Ric Birch made wink at Queen Elizabeth, will be 50.Birch in Brisbane to mark 35 years since World Expo 88 with fellow staff.
“If I was involved in 2032 it would be very different to a Sydney ceremony. I think Brisbane has not a larrikin core but a different sensibility to the southern states. “Sometimes an American talks about Queensland being like the southern America – it is the reverse situation of them being further from the equator, but it is true.“Whether or not you would ever do the blackbirding part of Queensland’s history – probably not – but the story of cane, the role of sugar cane in Queensland, yes,” he said.
“Sugar cane is an entirely different and rather exotic activity and more in keeping with the Caribbean than the rest of Australia,” speaking about the burning cane images near Cairns in Jimmy Barnes’The narrative for opening and closing ceremonies has to stand without a script, Birch says, with visual metaphors doing the work.“It happens in stages: Brisbane people, then Queensland people, then Australia. What are the common elements and not petty differences.
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