Narelda Jacobs OAM is an Australian journalist, newsreader, and television presenter.
31 Facts About Narelda Jacobs
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Narelda Jacobs is an Aboriginal, and lesbian, newsreader in Western Australia.
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Narelda Jacobs's father, Cedric Jacobs, was a Uniting Church minister and Indigenous rights campaigner, who was a member of the Stolen Generations, and her mother, Margaret, was involved in the ministry.
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Narelda Jacobs has said that she was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household, and attended born-again churches until her late teens.
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Narelda Jacobs was frightened of going to hell, and even more so of allowing others go to hell.
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Narelda Jacobs's mother was born in Belfast and of Irish and English descent, while her father was a Whadjuk Noongar man and a member of the Stolen Generation.
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Narelda Jacobs was active in Aboriginal politics, and journalists would often be at their house or talking with him on the phone.
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Narelda Jacobs was part of the National Aboriginal Conference delegation that to the United Nations in Geneva in 1981.
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Narelda Jacobs says she decided in Year 7 that she wanted to pursue a career in journalism.
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Narelda Jacobs got her first job working at the front desk of the National Native Title Tribunal and soon moved to their media department.
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Shortly afterwards, at 18, Narelda Jacobs became pregnant to her boyfriend of two years.
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Narelda Jacobs got married due to "family pressure and her religious upbringing" but six months after the birth of her daughter, the marriage ended.
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Narelda Jacobs was successful and began a degree in broadcast journalism at WAAPA.
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Narelda Jacobs joined Ten News in Perth in 2000, eventually becoming their court reporter, and filling in as weather presenter over summer.
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Narelda Jacobs is an Aboriginal, as well as a lesbian, newsreader in Western Australia.
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Narelda Jacobs advertised her case for answering "Yes" to the question in the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.
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In March 2019, Narelda Jacobs co-hosted SBS's broadcast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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On 13 January 2020 Narelda Jacobs relocated to Sydney, after 20 years at 10 News First Perth, to join the Studio 10 morning talk show as a panellist.
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However, later in 2020, Narelda Jacobs returned to read the Perth edition of 10 News First while juggling with working on Studio 10, following the network-wide cost cutting that saw the bulletin move back to Sydney.
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In 2020 and 2021, Narelda Jacobs co-hosted the Sunrise Ceremony on 26 January with John Paul Janke.
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In late 2022, it was announced that Narelda Jacobs was set to host an all new news bulletin, 10 News First: Midday.
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Narelda Jacobs began hosting duties on Monday, January 9 2023.
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The program follows Narelda Jacobs' other hosting position, Studio 10, and airs from 12:00pm to 1:00pm.
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In February 2024, Narelda Jacobs appeared with Pasifika New Zealander drag artist Kween Kong on Fran Kelly's podcast Yours Queerly.
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Narelda Jacobs said that she had long been an admirer of the star of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.
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Narelda Jacobs has appeared on The Project, Insiders, Q+A, and The Drum.
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Narelda Jacobs appeared in the TV documentary The Dark Emu Story, and has had roles in Australian drama series, including Safe Home and Total Control.
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In November 2021 Narelda Jacobs was appointed to the inaugural National Indigenous Advisory Group of Football Australia.
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Narelda Jacobs was a Legacy '23 Ambassador for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.
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Narelda Jacobs is an ambassador of the Pinnacle Foundation, Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation, Motor Neurone Disease Association WA, WA Aboriginal Leadership Institute, and Deadly Science, and was a Rainbow Champion for World Pride Sydney in 2023.
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Narelda Jacobs' daughter, Jade Dolman, is an artist who works under the name JD Penangke.