A previously unrecognised species of koala has been confirmed from fossils in the Western Australian Museum collection. It is the first new koala species identified from Western Australia.
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WA Museum Boola Bardip has been named the Campaign Brief WA’s 2025 Advertiser of the Year, following the success of Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor!
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These awards celebrate young people up to 30 years of age who are making positive contributions across their communities and industries.
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Centacare's Housing First Support Services (HFSS) in Geraldton works closely with the city's homeless community, supporting the most vulnerable, helping them into a home and then walking alongside them to help maintain thei
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On 13 April 1969, 23-year-old Lesley Meaney stood on the shore of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island and began swimming towards Fremantle. Approximately nine hours later, she reached the mainland, becoming the first woman to complete a solo crossing of the Rottnest Channel.
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Caterina Vallesi (née Cardinali) was married in Porto San Giorgio, Italy, in 1955 — but her groom, Umberto Vallesi, was thousands of kilometres away in Western Australia!
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As you move through Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor, it’s easy to be swept away by the sheer scale of it all. Sometimes, it’s easy to miss things...
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The Museum of the Great Southern is proud to host a national touring exhibition about shell-stringing; one of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community’s culturally significant and closely guarded traditions.
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Western Australian Museum scientists are in Geraldton looking for a land snail so rare it is presumed extinct.
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Dinosaurs, Pompeii and Heath Ledger headline a spectacular suite of exhibitions to be presented by the Western Australian Museum this spring at a range of venues.
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A stunningly beautiful astrophotography exhibition will be on display at the Museum of Geraldton from 28 July – 10 September 2017.
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Beautifully detailed artwork depicting bilbies and bandicoots that inhabited Australia millions of years ago will go on display this week at the Western Australian Museum’s Discovery Zone, in the State Library of Western Australia.
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The Western Australian Museum and its partners have won two prestigious achievement awards presented by the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA), for excellence in outstanding collaborations that delivered extraordinary cultural experiences around significant Western Australian sto
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The finalists’ and winners’ entries for the 2016 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition will go on display at the Museum of the Goldfields this weekend.
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- Freeman Ryan Design (FRD) and Thylacine Design and Project Management awarded exhibition design contracts
- Australian exhibition design teams will work with WA Museum staff to develop engaging exhibitions and visitor experiences
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It has been 50 years since the 1967 Referendum where Australians overwhelming voted to amend the constitution, allowing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be counted in the census, and to be subject to Commonwealth laws rather than an array of state laws.
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It has been 50 years since the 1967 Referendum where Australians overwhelming voted to amend the constitution, allowing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be counted in the census, and to be subject to Commonwealth laws rather than an array of state laws.
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