
S1E73 - CQ at the Movies - Ned Legaspi and "The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson."
Published: March 10, 2026
Duration: 37:03
In this episode, Trisha is joined by returning guest Ned Legaspi, CQ Fellow, cultural intelligence consultant, and author of Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian Creators, for the third instalment of CQ at the Movies. Together they turn Ned's Bamboo Framework on the Australian film The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson — a powerful retelling of a colonial-era story rewritten and directed by Indigenous Australian Leah Purcell. What does a story rooted in settler-colonial history reveal when seen through a CQ lens? How does a film's meaning shift when it travels beyond its cultural origin? And what can st...