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Interesting webinar happening, 'Black Lives Matter - an urgent public health issue in Australia', hosted by . Currently looking at some of the determinants of health (and broader wellbeing) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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2020-08-11

A small selection of from John Gould's 'The Mammals of Australia', [1845-]63 for Lithographed by Henry Constantine Richter.

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2020-01-27

Wombats, & dingos are animals we are hoping to see & learn more about in the next episode of Admiring these lithographs while we wait... all by Henry Constantine Richter in John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia', [1845-]1863.

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2019-11-16

Just had to tweet these rainbow lorikeets in support of From Volume 5 of Gould’s 'Birds of Australia', 1848

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2019-07-07

in 1897, Scottish-born writer, teacher and reformer Catherine Helen Spence became the first Australian female political candidate to stand for election. Called 'The Grand Old Woman of Australia', Spence is commemorated on the five-dollar note. https://t.co/NfvzlCwPWJ

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2019-03-06

in 1936, the or Tasmanian Tiger was named a protected animal, only 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity

by H.C. Richter for John 'Mammals of v.1 (1863)

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2018-07-10