Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. 

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January.

It’s not every day that an Australian artwork gets thrust into the global spotlight, let alone become a punchline on a hugely popular American late night talk show.

But that all changed, after news broke that Australia’s richest woman demanded that her portrait by Vincent Namatjira be taken down from the walls of the National Gallery of Australia. 

In this episode, Investigative reporter Eryk Bagshaw on the lengths Gina Rinehart went to remove the portrait.