Western Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this archive contains images, names and voices of people who have died. A third of a continent, told through what can be looked at. The oldest known fragment of the Earth's crust is a zircon grain from the Jack Hills, and people have been living here for at least forty seven thousand years by the securely dated evidence at Karnatukul, redated at the request of the native title holders. Then Dutch ships hitting the coast in the dark, a colony that asked for convicts because it could not find labour, gold at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie and a pipeline five hundred and thirty kilometres long, pearling luggers crewed by Japanese and Malay and Aboriginal divers, missions and prisons and an island that was a gaol, eight hundred Aboriginal pastoral workers who walked off the stations in 1946 and stayed out for three years, iron ore trains, and rock shelters blown up in 2020. The hard parts are here because they are the record. Aboriginal presence is not a chapter in this archive; it runs through all ten of its parts.

A chronological documentary of 1,156 moments spanning 1616–2026 on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20

1. 1616 - Drik hartog's plate, 1616 and vlaming's plate, 1697 - cyclopedia of western australia. Dirk Hartog made the first recorded European landing on the west coast on 25 October 1616, nailing a pewter plate to a post at Cape Inscription. Willem de Vlamingh found it half-buried on 4 February 1697 and took the original to Amsterdam, where it is held by the Rijksmuseum.
2. 1648 - Voyage of the Batavia, Francisco Pelsaert, 1648. Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia, uytgevaren onder't beleydt van den E. François Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman... Pelsaert returned aboard the Sardam in, October 1629, tried the mutineers on the islands and executed Cornelisz, some of them having both hands struck off before hanging. It was taken by the mission that held them, and not by anyone in it.
3. 1828 - Setting Camp of the survey expedition at Clause's Lagoon. Western Australia 1828 by Frederick Clause. Western Australia 1828 Painting by Frederick Clause from a sketch by Frederick Garling drawn in 1827 during James Stirlings expedition to the river Swan in Western Australia. Stirling explored the river in 1827 aboard HMS Success and lobbied the Colonial Office on what he found.
4. 1854 - Stamp-Western Australia 1854 1d Black Swan imperf. Western Australia imperforate 1854 1d Black Swan stamp believed to be the first bird stamp - SG #1. The honey possum feeds only on nectar and pollen, which ties it to whatever is flowering in any given month.
5. 1859 - E37 Fremantle Prison tour 078. Artwork found under whitewash in James Walsh's cell at Fremantle Prison. It operated as the Convict Establishment from 1 June 1855 and was transferred to colonial control on 31 March 1886.
6. 1859 - FremantlePrisonWalsh1. Artwork found under whitewash in James Walsh`s cell Fremantle Prison. In the riot of 4 January 1988 prisoners overwhelmed guards with boiling water, took six hostages and set a fire that caused about 1.8 million dollars of damage. Nobody died. The photograph was made by the institution, not by the people pictured.
7. 1866 - Fremantle Prison 1866. The convict establishment, Fremantle, Western Australia, watercolour, 13.5 x 44.5 cm. The southern half of the Main Cell Block was finished in 1855 and the northern wing by the end of 1859.
8. 1868 - Tarsipes rostratus Gould 3. The honey possum feeds only on nectar and pollen and is endemic to the southwest, where it depends on banksia and kwongan flowering through the year.
9. 1871 - Mammals of Australia (Krefft) The Dingo, or Native Dog. In The Mammals of Australia. Cane toads reached the Kimberley from the east and continue to move west.
10. 1877 - Valley Heights Platform 1877. S:Valley Heights (322m) William Cox referred in 1815 to "The Valley" as a suitable site for watering and feeding stock. No. 1 Fence alone ran 1,833 kilometres and was described on completion in 1907 as the longest unbroken fence in the world.
11. 1879 - Report on the forest resources of Western Australia - Eucalyptus Marginata. A plate of jarrah, Eucalyptus marginata, from a government forestry report. About 22.13 percent of the region, some 109,445 square kilometres, is protected, and unevenly across its six ecoregions.
12. 1888 - Aboriginals under temporary bark gunya (shelter), ca. 1888. Aboriginal Australians under temporary bark gunya (shelter), D.Le Souef, ca 1888. Numbats, woylies and dibblers survive where predator control is sustained and nowhere else.
13. 1892 - The jarrahdale timber station, Western Australia. A timber station in the southwest forest, with tramway and stacked cut timber. Jarrah was cut for railway sleepers and wharf piles and shipped across the world.
14. 1894 - Houtman Abrolhos coral (Saville-Kent). A painting of coral growing at the Houtman Abrolhos islands, off the west coast of Australia. The coral was identified at the time as Madrepora, but this name was previously applied to virtually any hard coral.
15. 1895 - Terns, Pelsaert Island. Photograph of Brown Noddy terns on Pelsaert Island in the Houtman Abrolhos. The Batavia struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island here on 4 June 1629.
16. 1896 - MolochLyd. Illustration of a Reptilia species, Moloch horridus, commonly referred to as the Thorny Devil. North of the southwest the arid and tropical zones hold entirely different assemblages, so the state spans several distinct faunas.
17. 1898 - Miners posed underground with dog in mine at Boulder Hill, Yukon Territory, circa 1898 (AL+CA 1437). On image: Boulder Hill flashlight underground. 313 by Goetzman. (Goetzman 313) PH Coll 305.27 Subjects (LCTGM): Miners--Yukon--Boulder Hill; Dogs--Yukon--Boulder Hill; Group portraits.
18. 1899 - Fremantle Prison 1899 Former Superintendent S. Hope. The prison superintendent, photographed in office. Hope, in 1899. Fremantle Prison: Former Superintendent S. Hope.
19. 1900 - Camel train in Nannine. Cameleers from Afghanistan, British India and what is now Pakistan carried water, stores and fencing across country no other transport could cross. Richard John Anketell built the main section of the rabbit-proof fence with 120 men, 350 camels, 210 horses and 41 donkeys.
20. 1900 - Quod, Wadjemup / Rottnest - 1900-. Wadjemup / Rottnest Prison ("Quod"), Western Australia. c1900-1910. At least 370 men died in custody here and are buried in unmarked graves north of the Quod. The source calls it the largest known deaths-in-custody grave site in Australia. The photograph was made by the prison establishment, not by the people pictured.
21. 1900 - Mowering with two goannas
22. 1900 - Mowering with two goannas, cropped & tweaked. Mowering with two goannas, probably somewhere around Roebourne around the turn of the century. The noisy scrub-bird was believed extinct until it was found again near Albany in 1961.
23. 1901 - Kerr Stuart locomotive N° 750 of 1901 'Leonora' for Sons of Gwalia. Poppet heads over the shafts were the visible signature of the goldfields, hoisting men and ore through country that had no surface water.
24. 1901 - Crowd watching parade in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie, 1901. Hannan Street was laid out wide enough to turn a camel team, which is why it still looks oversized. Kalgoorlie's gold paid for a streetscape of hotels and public buildings out of all proportion to a desert town.
25. 1901 - The Dutchess and the Manx Fairy on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, 1901. Duchess paddle steamer ferry (prominent) and the Manx Fairy steam ferry (behind) on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River in 1901. Ferries worked its reaches into the twentieth century and a few still do.
26. 1901 - The Dutchess and the Manx Fairy on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, 1901. Duchess paddle steamer ferry (prominent) and the Manx Fairy steam ferry (behind) on the Swan River in 1901. Derbarl Yerrigan, the Swan River, carried the colony's traffic before there were roads or rail.
27. 1901 - Feral cat with galah. Islands off this coast have become the last refuge for several mammals that are gone from the mainland. Foxes, cats and cane toads have driven the losses that fenced sanctuaries and island refuges now exist to hold back.
28. 1904 - Great Boulder Mines. The Great Boulder Mine, Boulder, Western Australian eastern goldfields in 1902. Paddy Hannan, Tom Flanagan and Dan Shea found gold at Mount Charlotte in 1893. All three names belong in the record, not only the one on the street and the statue.
29. 1904 - Great Boulder Perserverance Mines. 1903/1904. Paddy Hannan, Tom Flanagan and Dan Shea found gold at Mount Charlotte in 1893. All three names belong in the record, not only the one on the street and the statue.
30. 1905 - Mid-day-halt-cattle-droving-in-the-nor-west-coyarre. Cattle and horses stopped by a water soak, edged with eucalypts. The northern cattle runs were worked by Aboriginal stockmen paid in rations rather than wages, which is the grievance that produced the 1946 Pilbara strike.
31. 1905 - Landing fish in Fremantle. Fish being landed on the jetty at the fishing boat harbour. Landing fish on the jetty at the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour.
32. 1906 - St John's Church and the Fremantle Town Hall, 1906. St John's in Fremantle and the Perth churches mark the two original centres of the colony. The colony's churches were among its first permanent buildings, and several were raised by convict labour after 1850.
33. 1906 - Fremantle High Street 1906. The tram carbarn is on the right. Fremantle's West End survived because the money moved to Perth and left the buildings standing.
34. 1909 - Fremantle Prison 1909 The radiating exercise yard. The radiating exercise yards, laid out so one guard could watch every wing. The last convict ship, the Hougoumont, arrived on 10 January 1868 carrying 62 Fenian political prisoners. The camera belonged to the institution, not to anyone in the frame.
35. 1909 - Fremantle Prison 1909 The tailors' workroom. The tailors' workroom, where prisoners made the clothing the establishment issued. The colonists asked for transportation on the argument that the pastoral sector faced collapse without labour. Historians have since found the colony was oversupplied with labour and that capital and markets were the real constraint. The photograph was made by the institution, not by the people pictured.
36. 1909 - Fremantle Prison 1909 The bootmakers' workshop. The bootmakers' shop, one of the trades worked under sentence here. Royal Engineers began the prison in 1851, training convicts to quarry the limestone it is built from, so the building is made of the ground it stands on.
37. 1909 - Fremantle Prison 1909 The prison printery. The prison printery, which produced government forms and stationery. It operated as the Convict Establishment from 1 June 1855 and was transferred to colonial control on 31 March 1886.
38. 1909 - Fremantle Prison 1909 Superintendent W. A. George. The prison superintendent photographed in his office at Fremantle Prison in 1909. The image was made by the prison administration as part of its own institutional record.
39. 1909 - Fremantle Prison 1909 Chief Medical Officer Dr. J. W. Hope. The prison medical officer. Hope, in 1909. Fremantle Prison: Chief Medical Officer Dr Hope.
40. 1910 - Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River Rowing Club. The population went from 49,782 in 1891 to 184,124 in 1901, the largest demographic event in the colony's history. The colony was founded on 17 June 1829 under Captain James Stirling, and deliberately as a free settlement rather than a penal one.
41. 1910 - O&K locomotive N° 2271 of 1907, 610mm gauge, 0-4-0WT, 30hp, at Roebourne, ex Public Works Department of Victoria, Coode. OandK locomotive N° 2271 of 1907, 610mm gauge, 0-4-0WT, 30hp, at Roebourne, ex Public Works Department of Victoria, Coode Canal reclamation works, Port Melbourne ( 685B-5).
42. 1910 - paddle steamer ferry the Duchess on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, c. 1910. paddle steamer ferry the Duchess on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, in 1910. It runs through Whadjuk Noongar Country and the Wagyl is the being that made it.
43. 1910 - Aboriginal slaves Wadjemup / Rottnest 1883. Aboriginal slaves and prisoners on Wadjemup / Rottnest Island (multiple dates given in the library catalogues: 1883 or c1910). The Quod, built in 1863 and 1864, housed tourist accommodation until 2018, when it closed after decades of Aboriginal protest. The camera belonged to the prison, and the men in front of it were its prisoners. This is the administration's own record of the people it held.
44. 1911 - Macrotis lagotis. The western swamp tortoise is among the most restricted reptiles in Australia. The southwest's small mammals have been reduced by foxes and cats to fenced reserves and offshore islands.
45. 1912 - Railway Construction Workers Union meeting, Western Australia, 1912. The transcontinental railway promised at federation was completed in 1917, and the private Pilbara ore railways were built later to heavy North American specifications.
46. 1912 - RMS Koombana. The Koombana was lost off Port Hedland in 1912 with more than 150 aboard, described as Australia's worst maritime disaster of the twentieth century.
47. 1912 - HMS Juno in Albany Harbour 1901. Major Edmund Lockyer established a post at King George Sound in 1826 and formally annexed western Australia for Britain on 21 January 1827, two years before the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River Colony.
48. 1912 - Bush natives, frog hollow - cyclopedia of western australia. Aboriginal Australians at Frog Hollow, Western Australia, circa 1912. Carnaby's black cockatoo depends on the same woodland and kwongan that clearing has removed.
49. 1914 - RJL Joan Helen Rose Aubrey Hall (rotated, cropped). Robert John "Jack" Lodge, Joan Soutter Martin (née Lodge), Helen Rose Hall (née Lodge), and Harold Aubrey Hall at the family house in Forrest Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia. The Round House of 1831 is the oldest surviving public building in the state, put up as a gaol in the colony's second year.
50. 1916 - Rock engraving of human form - NMA-11812. Engraved rock surfaces are the most durable record of Aboriginal presence on this continent, and at Murujuga they are dated to 45,000 years and more.
51. 1919 - Tom C Edwards 1919 being led to grave in Fremantle Cemetery. He had the largest funeral ever witnessed in Western Australia, after a policeman hit him whilst he was at a protest that turned into the 1919 Fremantle Wharf riot. Tom Edwards died after being struck by police during the Fremantle wharf confrontation of, May 1919, when returned soldiers and non-union labour were used against the lumpers' union. His funeral was one of the largest the port had seen. It is the sharpest surviving image of industrial conflict on the Western Australia waterfront. The photograph was made by the police, not by the people pictured.
52. 1919 - Rotunda Hospital 1919. The Rotunda Hospital (now Edward Millen Home) in East Victoria Park, Western Australia. Hospitals in a state this size serve catchments measured in hundreds of thousands of square kilometres.
53. 1919-08 - Arrival of 'Königin Luise' in Fremantle, W.A. - 3, August 1919. Troopship SS Königin Luise arriving at Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia. O'Connor arrived in the colony in April 1891 as Engineer-in-Chief, having come to New Zealand at twenty-one and worked as an assistant engineer for Canterbury Province from 1866.
54. 1920 - Camel team in Carnarvon. Camel team and wagons still complete with motor transport in Carnarvon, Western Australia. A load of wood awaiting delivery. Cameleers from Afghanistan, British India and what is now Pakistan carried water, stores and fencing across country no other transport could cross. Richard John Anketell built the main section of the rabbit-proof fence with 120 men, 350 camels, 210 horses and 41 donkeys.
55. 1920 - Camel team in Carnarvon. [Camel team and wagons still complete with motor transport in Carnarvon, Western Australia. A load of wood awaiting delivery.]. Cameleers from Afghanistan, British India and what is now Pakistan carried water, stores and fencing across country no other transport could cross. Richard John Anketell built the main section of the rabbit-proof fence with 120 men, 350 camels, 210 horses and 41 donkeys.
56. 1920 - Margaret, Joan, and Constance, c.1920 in Roebourne. Roebourne is on Ngarluma Country and its old gaol held Aboriginal prisoners, some of whom were sent on to Wadjemup. This is the administration's own record of the people it held.
57. 1920 - 1920 Manjimup Timber Industry.. Footage of the Manjimup timber industry dated to 1920, in the karri country of the southwest. Manjimup was a mill centre and became a Group Settlement district after the scheme began in 1921 under Premier James Mitchell. The mill workforce and the group settlers were often the same families.
58. 1920 - The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, The Cortege Marshalling. A figure from The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, a pamphlet published in 1920 by the Australian Labor Federation. The first ocean-going steamer, the Sultan, berthed on 4 May 1897, and the works were completed in 1903.
59. 1920 - Lighter off Cossack, Gwen Hutchinson, rotated. A lighter, carrying sheep, leaving Cossack Harbour. Cossack was the Pilbara's first port and the base of the early pearling fleet before Broome took over. Its stone buildings stand empty on Ngarluma Country.
60. 1920 - The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, At The Graveside. A figure from The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, a pamphlet published in 1920 by the Australian Labor Federation. O'Connor arrived in the colony in April 1891 as Engineer-in-Chief, having come to New Zealand at twenty-one and worked as an assistant engineer for Canterbury Province from 1866.
61. 1920 - The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, Disputes Committee. A figure from The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, a pamphlet published in 1920 by the Australian Labor Federation. A Sunday Times article of 9 February 1902 by editor Thomas Walker accused him of 'gross blundering or something worse'. He shot himself at Robb Jetty on 10 March 1902.
62. 1922 - Jarrah forest. Dieback caused by Phytophthora has reshaped what grows in this forest. Jarrah forest covers much of the southwest, and its timber and the bauxite beneath it have both been extracted from the same ground.
63. 1922 - Pemberton landing. Karri and jarrah went out through Bunbury and Busselton to build railways and wharves on three continents. Timber milling built towns across the southwest and cleared the forest that the Group Settlement Scheme then tried and failed to farm.
64. 1922 - Karri log. The Forests Department replanted the coupes the mills had cut, which is the second half of the southwest timber story. Karri and jarrah went out through Bunbury and Busselton to build railways and wharves on three continents.
65. 1922 - Karri timber load. Sandalwood was cut for export from the colony's earliest decades, long before the gold. The Forests Department replanted the coupes the mills had cut, which is the second half of the southwest timber story.
66. 1922 - Australian zoologist vol 3 p 152 illustration. Illustration of Tarsipes rostratus. The honey possum feeds only on nectar and pollen and is endemic to the southwest, where it depends on banksia and kwongan flowering through the year.
67. 1922 - Jarrah log. Mill towns lived and died with their coupe: when the cutting moved, the town usually went with it. Sandalwood was cut for export from the colony's earliest decades, long before the gold.
68. 1924 - Picking wildflowers in Kalamunda Hills, 1924. Wildflower picking in the hills behind Perth, once a common weekend outing. The southwest is a global biodiversity hotspot of about 356,717 square kilometres, and its endemism rests on ancient, nutrient-poor soils that no ice sheet ever scraped and no volcano ever renewed.
69. 1924 - Kangaroo, Lady Forrest, and Ivanhoe c1924. The Stateships' ship 'Kangaroo', pilot boat 'Lady Forrest', and Ivanhoe, at Fremantle Harbour in about 1924. C.Y. O'Connor proposed putting the harbour inside the river mouth against expert opinion that called it impracticable, and removed the limestone bar and sand shoals to do it.
70. 1925 - Cape leeuwin. The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly. Photographer: Unknown Object no. The Leeuwin-Naturaliste ridge runs down the southwest corner on Wardandi Noongar Country.
71. 1926 - North Fremantle Railway Bridge collapse, 1926. Taken from harbour north west side of bridge collapse showing the loss of bridge structure. Ferries worked its reaches into the twentieth century and a few still do.
72. 1927-09 - Paddle steamer ferry Duchess on her last journey across the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River from South Perth, 10 September. Duchess on its last voyage as a ferry on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River on 10 September 1927. Occupation at Upper Swan is dated to about 40,000 years ago.
73. 1928-03 - Burbanks Mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia, 14, March 1928. Arthur Wellesley Bayley and William Ford located gold at Fly Flat in 1892. Coolgardie was the colony's third-largest town by 1898 with about 15,000 people, and 700 mining companies based there were registered with the London Stock Exchange; by the 1910 s it had fallen to about 200 people.
74. 1929 - Proposed surface and tunnel routes for proposed Ballard-University highway, 1929. Map 1591, Seattle Municipal Archives. Antony Gormley's Inside Australia stands on the salt crust of Lake Ballard near Menzies, on Wangkatja Country.
75. 1929 - Coolgardie School of Mines. Arthur Wellesley Bayley and William Ford located gold at Fly Flat in 1892. Coolgardie was the colony's third-largest town by 1898 with about 15,000 people, and 700 mining companies based there were registered with the London Stock Exchange; by the 1910 s it had fallen to about 200 people.
76. 1930 - Ms428 + train, Mundaring Weir, 1930s. A WAGR Ms class Garratt locomotive, no. 428, with a passenger train at Mundaring Weir.The information provided here about the date of the image is obtained from Gunzburg, Adrian. A History of WAGR Steam Locomotives.
77. 1930 - Fremantle Harbour, Frank Hurley, nla.obj. Fremantle Harbour from the air, looking south-west. Taken by Frank Hurley from an aircraft, in the 1930 s. Before this harbour existed, ocean-going ships stood off Fremantle and lightered their cargo across the bar.
78. 1930 - SS ZEPHYR possibly on Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, Western Australia. The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly. The photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured.
79. 1930 - Float, Carnarvon Jetty. A man with a fish on the One Mile Jetty, Carnarvon, Western Australia. Jetties were the only cargo link for coastal towns before roads reached them.
80. 1930 - Float, Carnarvon Jetty. The jetty reaching out over shallow water to deeper anchorage. A man with a fish on the One Mile Jetty, Carnarvon, Western Australia.
81. 1930 - Float, Carnarvon Jetty. The jetty reaching out over shallow water to deeper anchorage. A man with a fish on the One Mile Jetty, Carnarvon, Western Australia.
82. 1930-11 - Kalgoorlie railway station, 20, November 1930. The eastern end of Kalgoorlie railway station, with the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway tracks behind the signal box at left, and the main narrow gauge Eastern Goldfields Railway platform in the centre.
83. 1933 - Fremantle looking west, St John's Church and Town Hall at centre, 1. Aerial photograph of Fremantle in 1933, looking west over Kings Square. Country churches were often the only building in a district with a floor, a roof and a clock.
84. 1933 - CC514, Canning Volunteer Fire Brigade. A volunteer fire brigade with its appliance. From the City of Canning photographic collection.
85. 1933 - Aerial view Fremantle 1933. Aerial photograph of Fremantle, looking west. St John's Church and Town Hall at centre.
86. 1934 - Golden mile, 1934. It took just 45 years to transform the desert around Kalgoorlie, in Wangkatha Country in Western Australia, into a city of gold known as the Golden Mile. Initially, prospectors came for the alluvial gold.
87. 1935 - Fremantle Prison (aerial photograph, 1935). Aerial view of Fremantle Prison. It was inscribed in 2010 as one of eleven places in the Australian Convict Sites serial World Heritage listing, never in its own right.
88. 1935 - Minderoo grounded 1. The SS Minderoo grounded at Port Hedland in 1935. The Pilbara ports move the ore that the Hamersley mines dig.
89. 1935 - Minderoo grounded 1. The SS Minderoo grounded at Port Hedland in 1935. Port Hedland is widely described as the largest bulk export port in the world by tonnage, a claim that needs a date and a source before it is repeated.
90. 1935 - Unloading Wadjemup / Rottnest salt from the old Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River ferry steamer Duchess, now converted into. Duchess barge, a former ferry, being unloaded of salt at Fremantle, having arrived from Wadjemup / Rottnest in 1935. C.Y. O'Connor proposed putting the harbour inside the river mouth against expert opinion that called it impracticable, and removed the limestone bar and sand shoals to do it.
91. 1935 - Unloading Wadjemup / Rottnest salt from the old Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River ferry steamer Duchess, now convert. Duchess barge, a former ferry, being unloaded of salt at Fremantle, having arrived from Wadjemup / Rottnest in 1935. The first ocean-going steamer, the Sultan, berthed on 4 May 1897, and the works were completed in 1903.
92. 1936 - 10. Marble Bar. 'chief town in the Piibarra District of North West Australia where highest temperatures in Australia are registered.'. Marble Bar holds a long-standing Australian record for consecutive days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, set between 1923 and 1924.
93. 1936 - Peter Donegan in diving suit, 1936. Aboriginal people collected and traded pearl shell for at least 500 years before British colonisation. The early industry relied on blackbirded Aboriginal labour including women and children used as skin divers; regulations of 1871 to 1873 banned Aboriginal women divers, which is itself the evidence they were being used. Hard-hat diving from the 1880 s shifted the workforce to indentured Asian labour, and by 1901 Japanese divers made up 943 of 998 workers.
94. 1936 - 14. Pearling Luggers in the Creek, Broome. Broome ran 300 to 403 luggers at its peak, and its population went from 121 in 1891 to over 1,000 by 1900. The 1935 Lacepede Islands cyclone sank 21 luggers and killed 141; the 1887 Eighty Mile Beach cyclone killed 140.
95. 1939 - Canning Dam, construction of dam wall, 1939. The scarp is the western edge of the Yilgarn Craton, so the dams sit on some of the oldest continental crust on Earth. The Darling Scarp dams supply Perth from jarrah forest catchments east of the city.
96. 1940 - Timber trains in Manjimup Pemberton area. State Saw Mills G Class Locomotive No2 named 'The Hewer' hauling a timber train in the Manjimup and Pemberton areas, Western Australia.
97. 1940 - Submarine sunk by HMAS STUART. Able Seaman Arthur Thomas Wood was born 21 April 1921 at Berry in New South Wales, and joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1938 at the age of 17. After training at HMAS CEREBUS he joined HMAS SYDNEY in early 1939. HMAS Sydney was sunk after action with the German raider Kormoran off Carnarvon in 1941 with all 645 crew lost.
98. 1941 - Gnowangerup Mission. 1941 Missions and depots across the wheatbelt, goldfields and desert took in people moved under state policy. This photograph was made by the institution, not by the people pictured.
99. 1942 - Japanese air raid on Broome 1942. Footage relating to the Japanese air raid on Broome on 3 March 1942, in which flying boats carrying evacuees from the Netherlands East Indies were destroyed in Roebuck Bay. Broome's population at the time included the Japanese pearling workforce, most of whom had already been interned as enemy aliens. The raid ended the town's pre-war pearling economy.
100. 1942 - Fremantle Harbour, WW2. A rare aerial photo of w:Fremantle Harbour during WW2 shows nearly 40 ships and submarines around bt sides of the harbour. The floating US Navy dry dock ARD.10 is also pictured mid-stream to the right, near the railway bridge.
101. 1944 - AWAS picnic at Bibra Lake, c1944. Six women sit on the grass with cases and hats around them. Some women are in army uniform, some are not. Taken at Bibra Lake AWAS camp during WWII. Show days and race meetings were the fixed points of the year in country towns.
102. 1945 - Kalgoorlie Gold Mining WA 1930's -- 1950's. Compiled footage of Kalgoorlie gold mining from the 1930s to the 1950s, the deep underground era that followed the surface rushes. By this period the Golden Mile was worked by shaft and stope rather than by the dry blowers of the 1890s.
103. 1945 - USS Clytie (AS-26) leaving Fremantle, Australia, in, September 1945. The US. Navy submarine tender USS Clytie (AS-26) passing through the submarine boom defense netting at Fremantle, Australia, in, September 1945.
104. 1949 - ADF 490 + ADUs, on test, 1949. A WAGR ADF ("Wildflower") class railcar, no. ADF 490 Boronia (right), with two ADU class trailers (left), on a test run.
105. 1950 - St Andrew's Anglican church, Greenhills, 25, June 1950. Wooden church building in Greenhills, Western Australia. The colony's churches were among its first permanent buildings, and several were raised by convict labour after 1850.
106. 1950 - Lake-Austin-township-Murchison-region-of-Western-Australia-c-1950-DETAIL. 1950 (detail). The goldfields left towns that grew to thousands within a year and emptied within a decade, and their public buildings often outlasted their populations.
107. 1952 - The Timber Getters (1952) – Australia’s Axe-Men and the Hardwood Timber Industry. The Timber Getters, a 1952 Film Australia production on the hardwood industry and the men who felled it by axe and crosscut saw. Western Australia's jarrah and karri forests were cut on this scale from the 1870s to supply sleepers, piles and paving blocks to Britain and Asia. Falling and snigging by hand was among the most dangerous work in the state.
108. 1963 - 1963 March 17th - Kununurra Royal Tour - Kevin Richards Film (Silent 16mm Colour). Silent 16mm colour film by Kevin Richards of the Royal Tour visit to Kununurra on 17 March 1963. The town had been established from 1960 for the Ord River Irrigation Scheme workforce and the footage shows the raw townsite, sheds and cleared ground. It is one of the earliest colour records of the town.
109. 1963 - 1963 Royal Tour to Kununurra - Part 1. Kununurra Museum film of the 1963 Royal Tour arriving at Kununurra, part one. The town was only three years old, built from 1960 to house Ord River Irrigation Scheme workers, and the visit was staged in a construction camp. The footage records the town's original layout before the later suburbs.
110. 1963 - Deep Sea Diving Suit | US Navy Training Film | 1963. A 1963 United States Navy training film on the deep sea diving suit, showing the standard diving dress in operation. The same equipment, corselet, helmet, weighted boots and surface-supplied air, was used by Broome pearl divers from the 1880s onward. Divers had no reliable decompression tables for most of the pearling era, and paralysis and death from the bends were routine.
111. 1966 - River Ord Irrigation Scheme (1966). British Pathe newsreel of the Ord River irrigation works in the east Kimberley. The scheme diverted river water to irrigate farmland around Kununurra. The footage shows the earthworks and channels under construction.
112. 1966 - 1966 wittenoom. Blue Asbestos Mine, Wittenoom, Western Australia. About 20,000 people worked or lived here over the mine's life, and as of 2024 more than 2,000 of them had died of asbestos-related disease.
113. 1966 - Pearling Industry In Australia (1966). British Pathe newsreel on the Australian pearling industry, filmed in 1966. By this date the trade was collapsing as plastics replaced pearl shell for buttons, and cultured pearls were taking over from natural shell.
114. 1968 - Western Australia’s worst earthquake. An account of the Meckering earthquake, the most destructive recorded in Western Australia. It struck at 10:58:52 local time on 14 October 1968 at magnitude 6.5, on a public holiday. The town was effectively destroyed with no deaths and 20 to 28 injuries, and the shaking was felt in Perth 130 km away.
115. 1969 - MOUNT NEWMAN ORE - SOUND. British Movietone newsreel on Mount Newman ore, filmed as the Pilbara iron ore industry came into production. Export of Australian iron ore had been restricted from 1938 and those restrictions were lifted from 1961, which is what made these mines possible.
116. 1969-06-26 - From the Archives: Governor General Opens Mount Newman Mine (26 June 1969). BHP archival film of the Governor-General opening the Mount Newman mine on 26 June 1969. Stan Hilditch identified the deposits that became Mount Whaleback in 1957; the mine could not proceed until Australia's iron ore export restrictions, imposed from 1938, were lifted from 1961.
117. 1971 - Cheynes Whaling Station Albany W.A circa 1971. The Cheynes Beach whaling station at Albany, filmed around 1971 while it was still operating. It was the last operating whaling station in Australia and closed in 1978.
118. 1972 - The Ord River Dam Official Opening-June 30th 1972 - Commemorating 50 Years Ago Today (in 2022 :^). Kununurra Museum footage of the official opening of the Ord River Dam on 30 June 1972. Kununurra itself was built from 1960 as a purpose-made town to house the Ord River Irrigation Scheme workforce, one of the few wholly planned towns in the Kimberley. The dam flooded Miriuwung and Gija Country to create Lake Argyle.
119. 1976 - COOLGARDIE KALGOORLIE GWALIA GOLD MINES 1976 OUTBACK WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Amateur film of Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie and the Gwalia gold mines shot in 1976, when several of these towns were already largely abandoned. Gwalia emptied almost overnight when the Sons of Gwalia mine closed in 1963. The footage records the physical remains of goldfields housing before later demolition and heritage reconstruction.
120. 1984 - South-West view across Serpentine Dam. Original image captured using a Canon Sure Shot 35mm film cartridge compact camera by user "aussiejeff" on flikr.com. The scarp is the western edge of the Yilgarn Craton, so the dams sit on some of the oldest continental crust on Earth.
121. 1986 - Paul's Pt Hedland: "Cossack" and "Pt. Samson". 1986.. Amateur footage of Cossack and Point Samson shot in 1986, before the later restoration of the Cossack stone buildings. Cossack served as the port for Roebourne and the North West pearling fleet from the 1870s and had been abandoned for decades by the time this was filmed. The towns sit on Ngarluma Country.
122. 1988 - Paul Barry's Walkley Award nominated Four Corners story - 'Blue Death' (1988). Paul Barry's Four Corners report Blue Death, first broadcast in 1988 and posted by the Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia. Through the 1950s and early 1960s Wittenoom was Australia's only supplier of blue asbestos, and the peak town population was 881 in 1961.
123. 1988 - Excerpt from Paul Barry's 1988 BLUE DEATH report on ABC's Four Corners. An excerpt from Paul Barry's 1988 Four Corners report Blue Death on the Wittenoom blue asbestos mine. CSR, through its subsidiary Australian Blue Asbestos Ltd, mined crocidolite at Wittenoom Gorge from 1943 until closure in 1966. About 20,000 people worked or lived at Wittenoom over its life, and as of 2024 more than 2,000 had died of asbestos-related diseases.
124. 1992 - Trouble In The Bungle Bungles 1992. Footage shot in the Purnululu / Bungle Bungle Range in 1992, when access to the east Kimberley range was still difficult and largely by air. The banded sandstone domes were brought to wider non-Aboriginal attention in the 1980s, though Aboriginal people had known and used this Country continuously. Purnululu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2003.
125. 1992 - Cossack 1992. Cossack Courthouse on the occasion of the opening of the new museum (some time in that week). The lockups and courthouses of the goldfields and the north are the built architecture of colonial control.
126. 1992 - Cossack 1992. Cossack Courthouse on the occasion of the opening of the new museum (some time in that week). Prisoners were sent to Wadjemup from across the state, including the Kimberley and Pilbara, enormous distances from their Country.
127. 1995 - Pilbara Adventure Tours in Karijini National Park, 1995. As this is an analogue image, predating digital, no time stamp or date are available. The gorges cut down through iron-rich sediment laid in an ocean before there was free oxygen in the air.
128. 1998 - 7, February 1998- Hamiltons Shaft minehead & headframe at the Hannans North Tourist Mine site, Kalgoorlie, Western Austr. INFO - Early morning light. - Hannans North Tourist Mine site is located at the north-east edge of Kalgoorlie.
129. 1999 - Super Pit Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder 2. The phrase 'richest square mile on Earth' is a promotional slogan of uncertain provenance rather than a measurement. Kalgoorlie and Boulder grew on that ore body, and the pit now runs up against the edge of both towns.
130. 2000 - CSIRO ScienceImage 199 Measuring Western Rock Lobster Catch. Fisherman measuring Western Rock Lobster catch, Geraldton, Western Australia., June 1987.. Photo credit: Robert Kerton.
131. 2001 - Yagan Statue, Western Australia. A photograph of a bronze status of en:Yagan that stands on en:Heirisson Island, en:Perth, Western Australia. The statue was sculpted in en:1984 by Robert Hitchcock. His father Midgegooroo had been caught and executed without trial by a military firing squad earlier that year.
132. 2001 - Soil salinity in Australia (2001). A CSIRO film on soil salinity in Australia, first released in 2001. Dryland salinity follows the clearing of deep-rooted native vegetation, after which rainfall seeps past the root zone, water tables rise and capillary action brings ancient stored salt to the surface. Clearing as little as 25 percent of a catchment can trigger it.
133. 2001 - Thorny Devil WA. The limestone plain runs east from the goldfields toward South Australia without a tree on much of it. Edward John Eyre crossed it in 1841, guided in part by Aboriginal knowledge, with his companion Wylie completing the crossing with him.
134. 2003 - CSIRO ScienceImage 1226 Ore Truck at the Silver Swan Nickel Mine. Ore truck coming out of the portal, Silver Swan nickel mine, Western Australia. Photo Hill.
135. 2004 - MK-07628-33 Gantheaume Point (Broome). Broome sits on Yawuru Country. Dinosaur trackways in the reef rock at Gantheaume Point are exposed at low tide.
136. 2004 - Helicopter Trying to Retrieve a Pump, Tarmoola Gold Mine, Leonora, Western Australia. Following the collapse of the pit wall, (see earlier pic) a very expensive pump had to be retrieved and because of the collapse, the only way was to use a helicopter.
137. 2005 - Yagan Statue 2005. Heirisson Island, Perth, Western Australia. The statue was sculpted in 1984 by Robert Hitchcock. Yagan, a Whadjuk Noongar leader, was shot near Guildford on 11 July 1833 by the teenager William Keats, who claimed the bounty. Settlers severed his head.
138. 2005 - Yagan Statue Head. Heirisson Island, Perth, Western Australia. The statue was sculpted in 1984 by Robert Hitchcock. The head was taken to London, displayed as a curiosity, and buried at Everton Cemetery in 1964.
139. 2005 - Australia.A2002231.0145.250m NASA Nullarbor. The plain is a single sheet of marine limestone lifted out of the sea, and it holds one of the world's largest cave systems. The limestone plain runs east from the goldfields toward South Australia without a tree on much of it.
140. 2005 - Road from paraburdoo. Main Highway just outside the towm of Paraburdoo showing the high iron concentrations in the soil. Lang Hancock said that on 16 November 1952 weather forced him low over the Turner River and he saw gorge walls of oxidised iron. His biographer Neill Phillipson checked Bureau of Meteorology records and found no rain there that day or any day that November.
141. 2006 - Serpentine dam wa. Serpentine Dam, on the scarp south east of Perth. Serpentine Dam offtake tower and partial dam wall, at 27% of capacity.
142. 2007 - .00 0982 Ord River - Australia. Ord River, a river in the Kimberley region of northeastern Western Australia. In 1971, the river was dammed by a 100 meter high dam to create Lake Argyle, Australia's largest reservoir.
143. 2007 - 00 2098 Western Australia - Lake Argyle. The Lake Argyle in the extreme north-east of Western Australia was created by impoundment of the River Ord River. The reservoir is the largest freshwater reservoir in Australia with a water surface of 750 to 1000 square kilometers.
144. 2007 - Mundaring weir zigzag under water. Spur line at w:Mundaring Weir, Western Australia. This section of line has been under water since the Weir was extended in 1952, normally between 3-8 meters below.
145. 2007 - Pipe joint gfwss. Plaque showing the rivetless joint created by Mephan Ferguson c1890's. The plaque is near the Mundaring Weir where Ferguson supplied 530 kms of pipeline using this joint, the first major pipe project to use a rivetless joint.
146. 2007 - 00 0865 Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Ningaloo Reef, an approx 250 km long coral reef on the west coast of Australia along the "Coral Coast". A special feature: The reef is usually only about 100 meters from the beach, so that it is easily accessible for swimmers, divers and snorkelers. Cape Range, the karst country behind the beach, is the terrestrial half of the listing.
147. 2007 - 00 1847. Cape Range National Park - Western Australia. Cape Range National Park Westaustralien (im Westen der Halbinsel „North West Cape“): Die typische Vegetation ist Buschland und dicht beieinander stehende Termitenhügel. Ningaloo bleached in marine heatwaves in 2011 and again in 2025.
148. 2007 - Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool. The stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, filmed in 2007 before the current boardwalk arrangements. The structures accrete slowly as cyanobacterial mats trap sediment. The pool's salinity is roughly double that of open seawater, which is what allows them to persist.
149. 2007 - RC Drill Rig Western Australia. The ore leaves by a private railway running more than 400 kilometres to Port Hedland. Mount Whaleback is one of the largest single-pit iron ore mines in the world.
150. 2007 - 00 2192 Argyle Diamond Mine - Australien. The Argyle Diamond Mine was an open pit diamond mine in the East Kimberley region of remote northern Western Australia. The mine opened in 1985 and ceased production in 2020. The deepest point reached in opencast mining is around 600 meters. The Argyle mine in the East Kimberley produced pink diamonds and closed in 2020.
151. 2007 - Kelpie walking across the backs of sheep. Australian Kelpie walking across the backs of sheep, The Shearing Shed, Yallingup, Western Australia. Wool was the colony's staple before gold and remained the wheatbelt's second crop after it.
152. 2007 - CSIRO ScienceImage 5914 Open cut mining operations at the Paddington Gold Mine near Kalgoorlie Western Australia 1998. Open cut mining operations at the Paddington Gold Mine, near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 1998.
153. 2007 - 00 0927 Whim Greek Pub - Western Australia. Whim Greek Pub rest house on the North West Coastal Highway, a trunk road in Western Australia that connects Perth to Darwin. The route is part of Highway 1. Whim Creek is a small town in Western Australia. The transcontinental railway promised at federation was completed in 1917.
154. 2008 - Lake clifton. Salt crust near the shore of Lake Clifton. Clearing deep-rooted native vegetation lets rainfall seep past the root zone, raising water tables so that capillary action brings ancient stored salt to the surface. Clearing as little as 25 percent of a catchment can trigger it, and the salt that surfaces was stored in the soil profile long before the ploughs arrived.
155. 2008 - Mundaring Weir Road at the weir from the south. W:Mundaring Weir Road west of Mundaring Weir, running down the north side of the Helena river valley slope. Mundaring Weir is the head of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, which lifts water 530 kilometres to Kalgoorlie through eight pumping stations.
156. 2008 - Canning Dam, Perth (3). The water level at Canning Dam in Perth, Western Australia when the dam was down to 34.4% of its total capacity. Perth now draws on desalination and groundwater as well, because the surface catchments no longer fill the way they did.
157. 2008 - Sleeping Buddha view. From the top of the Sleeping Buddha. A view of the north peak of Sleeping Buddha showing the Ord River, Kununurra.
158. 2008 - Z Bend. A photograph of the Murchison Gorge from the Z Bend lookout. Cyclone Seroja made landfall near Kalbarri on 11 April 2021, damaging about 70 percent of structures in the town and destroying about 40 percent.
159. 2008 - New Norcia, Interior of St Gertrude's. Interior, St Gertrude's. Its schools took in Aboriginal children under the same removal policies that filled Moore River and Carrolup. The camera here belonged to the mission administration, not to the people in front of it.
160. 2008 - New Norcia Benedictine Monastery. The Benedictine community here has outlasted every other mission institution in the state. The mission made this image of the people in its charge; none of them chose to be photographed.
161. 2008 - New Norcia, St Gertrude's. The photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured. New Norcia was founded as a Benedictine mission in 1847 and is the only monastic town in Australia.
162. 2008 - New Norcia, Handball Court. The mission made this image of the people in its charge; none of them chose to be photographed. Its schools took in Aboriginal children under the same removal policies that filled Moore River and Carrolup.
163. 2008 - US Navy 080607-N-5329L-076 Navy Divers enter the Providence River to begin diving operations on the wreck of the former. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (June 7, 2008) Navy Divers enter the Providence River to begin diving operations on the wreck of the former Soviet submarine Juliett 484. Aboriginal people collected and traded pearl shell for at least 500 years before British colonisation. The early industry relied on blackbirded Aboriginal labour including women and children used as skin divers; regulations of 1871 to 1873 banned Aboriginal women divers, which is itself the evidence they were being used.
164. 2008 - Cloudbreak Mine - Pilbara WA-2008. Cloudbreak Mine on Fortescue Metals Group rail line south of Port Hedland, Western Australia. Not long after commencing production., August 2008.
165. 2008 - Headframe. 2008. Taken at the mining hall of fame at Kalgoorlie.
166. 2009-06-01 - Flatback turtle nesting on 80 Mile Beach, Western Australia. A flatback turtle nesting on Eighty Mile Beach in northwest Western Australia. The beach lies on Karajarri and Nyangumarta Country between Broome and Port Hedland. Flatbacks nest only on Australian beaches.
167. 2009 - Wildflower paradise along the Indian Ocean of Western Australia between Geraldton and Perth. Wildflowers of the southwest in season. The region holds over half the world's sundew species.
168. 2009 - Nullabor 360°. Edward John Eyre crossed it in 1841, guided in part by Aboriginal knowledge, with his companion Wylie completing the crossing with him.
169. 2009 - At the Hamelin Pool Stromatolites preserve, near Denham and Monkey Mia - the last rays of the sun. Stromatolites are not unique to this bay: Lake Thetis holds them too, as do the Bahamas. The living pillars are colonies built by cyanobacteria, reaching about 1.5 metres and growing at roughly half a millimetre a year, so they are thousands of years old rather than billions.
170. 2009 - Shark Bay, WA, home of a lot of sea grass and happy Dugongs. 2009. Dirk Hartog made the first recorded European landing on the west coast here on 25 October 1616, at Cape Inscription.
171. 2009 - Moore River Panorama 1. Moore River Native Settlement operated from 1918 to 1974 under A.O. Neville's administration. The land proved unsuitable for the self-supporting farm it was meant to be, and it became an institution holding people removed from across the state; the population passed 500 in 1933. There were 346 recorded deaths between 1918 and 1952, and 42 percent of those were children aged 1 to 5. The photograph was made by the administration of the Moore River Native Settlement, not by the people pictured.
172. 2009 - Roebourne Post Office by G Temple-Poole. Roebourne is on Ngarluma Country and its old gaol held Aboriginal prisoners, some of whom were sent on to Wadjemup.
173. 2009 - RIUP Lookout stone messages. Lang Hancock said that on 16 November 1952 weather forced him low over the Turner River and he saw gorge walls of oxidised iron. His biographer Neill Phillipson checked Bureau of Meteorology records and found no rain there that day or any day that November.
174. 2009 - Sunrise Dam Gold Mine open pit. The Pilbara ships iron ore on a scale measured in hundreds of millions of tonnes a year, from pits, rail and ports that were all built for that single commodity.
175. 2009 - Headframe. Kalgoorlie. WA. Next morning we explored a little more of the diverse delights of Kalgoorlie! Nearly 30,000 immigrants arrived in 1895 alone, most of them from the eastern colonies, and were called t'othersiders.
176. 2009-09-01 - 'IDA LLOYD' Broome Pearl Lugger B68. The Broome pearl lugger Ida Lloyd, registered B68. Luggers of this type worked the shell beds off the Kimberley coast, and cyclones took them in numbers: the 1935 Lacepede Islands cyclone sank 21 luggers and killed 141, and the 1887 Eighty Mile Beach cyclone killed 140.
177. 2009-10-07 - PT 2 OF 2 PARTS Historical Broome with Broome museum WA Western Australia. Part two of a walkthrough of Broome's museum collections on the pearling era. The museum holds diving dress, lugger fittings and the records of a workforce that was Japanese, Malay, Filipino, Koepanger and Chinese after hard-hat diving became standard in the 1880s and 1890s, with Japanese divers making up 943 of 998 workers by 1901. Pearling was the only industry exempt from the White Australia Policy.
178. 2009-10-25 - Part One: KLC - Building On Our History. The Kimberley Land Council on building on its own history, part one. The council was formed in the land rights struggles of the late 1970s, of which Noonkanbah was the sharpest episode. It is now the representative body for Kimberley traditional owners.
179. 2009-10-25 - Part Two: KLC - Building On Our History. The Kimberley Land Council on building on its own history, part two. The organisation grew out of the same period that produced the Noonkanbah confrontation of 1980. It now runs the Kimberley Ranger Network and negotiates on behalf of member groups.
180. 2009-12-13 - "Our Art" Interview with Christine Yukenbari, Warlayirti Artists. An interview with the Warlayirti artist Christine Yukenbari at Balgo. The recording is part of a series in which artists describe their own careers and working practice. Warlayirti Artists is community owned.
181. 2009-12-13 - "Our Art" Inteview with Ms Hapke & Agnes Armstrong, Waringarri Aboriginal Arts. Agnes Armstrong of Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra speaks about the centre's work. Waringarri is one of the oldest Aboriginal-owned art centres in the Kimberley. Its artists work on Miriuwung Gajerrong Country.
182. 2009-12-13 - "Our Art" Interview with Gabriel Nodea, Warmun Art Centre. Gabriel Nodea of Warmun Art Centre in the east Kimberley describes the centre's work. Warmun is the community at Turkey Creek and its painters work largely in natural ochres from the surrounding Country. The centre is owned and directed by Gija people.
183. 2010-06-15 - Australian Aboriginal Stockmen. Footage of Aboriginal stockmen at work, the labour on which the northern cattle industry was built. Across the Kimberley and Pilbara, Aboriginal stockmen and their families were paid in rations rather than wages well into the twentieth century, and comprehensive legal protection for Aboriginal pastoral workers arrived only in 1968. The skills shown here were held almost entirely by Aboriginal workers.
184. 2010 - Wyola Club protest. Members of the Wyola Club protesting the building's sale to Phil Douglas. Aboriginal people in this state received full voting rights in 1962. The 1967 referendum was about the census and Commonwealth power, not about the vote.
185. 2010 - Macropus Fuliginosus feeding. Western Grey kangaroo feeding young, Darling range, Western Australia. Before the pipeline reached the goldfields in 1903, Kalgoorlie ran on condensed salt water and carted water, and typhoid moved through the camps.
186. 2010 - Macropus fuliginosus Closeup. W:Macropus fuliginosus close up - Darling range, Western Australia. C.Y. O'Connor shot himself at Robb Jetty on 10 March 1902, and John Forrest commissioned the completed scheme the following year.
187. 2010 - Group of Macropus fuliginosus Darling Range 05010. Macropus fuliginosus (Western Grey Kangaroo) feeding, Darling Range, western Australia. The 1968 Meckering earthquake damaged this pipeline, which links the water scheme to the fault scarp in one event.
188. 2010 - ESTRACK New Norcia. ESTRACK ground station (DSA 1), New Norcia, Western Australia. It was taken by the mission that held them, and not by anyone in it.
189. 2010 - New norcia 1 v2. The Abbey Church, New Norcia, Western Australia. This is the mission's own record of the people it held, made without their consent.
190. 2010 - St. Gertrude's School for Girls, New Norcia, Western Australia, 25 Oct. 2010. Gertrude's School for Girls, New Norcia, Western Australia, 25 Oct. 2010. The photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured.
191. 2010 - SwanTouristInfoCentre 2010. Guildford, Western Australia - Swan Valley tourist information centre. Three Jaburara men convicted over Constable Griffis's death after the Flying Foam killings had death sentences commuted to twelve years on Wadjemup.
192. 2010 - Gone Driveabout 20, Open cast gold mine, Mount Magnet, Western Australia, 24 Oct. 2010. 2010. Harry Francis Anstey's party found gold at Yilgarn in 1887, between the Kimberley rush and Coolgardie.
193. 2010 - Wittenoom Western Australia - Road Sign. The town was degazetted in, June 2007 and declared a contaminated site in, January 2008. The town was degazetted in June 2007 and declared a contaminated site in January 2008.
194. 2010 - Wittenoom Western Australia - Old Convent. The last resident was evicted in, September 2022 and demolition began in, May 2023. The last resident was evicted in September 2022 and demolition began in May 2023.
195. 2010 - Wittenoom - Doc Holidays. Doc Holiday's Cafe, Wittenoom Western Australia. In, February 2026 the Banjima Native Title Aboriginal Corporation filed a Federal Court compensation claim seeking remediation estimated at over 1.5 billion dollars. The matter is unresolved.
196. 2010 - Wittenoom Western Australia - Doc Holidays Cafe 1. The contamination sits on Banjima Country and the Banjima cannot use it, which is the frame this place needs rather than the ghost-town one.
197. 2010 - WittenoomWA - Gem Shop. Wittenoom Gem Shop. Lang Hancock was involved in the mine from 1938 to 1948 and denied liability for the disease it caused throughout his life.
198. 2010 - Sunrise, Marvel Loch Gold Mine, Marvel Loch, Western Australia. Harry Francis Anstey's party found gold at Yilgarn in 1887, between the Kimberley rush and Coolgardie.
199. 2010 - Argyle Diamond Mine. The Argyle mine in the East Kimberley produced pink diamonds and closed in 2020.
200. 2010-06-23 - Asbestos Report, Sunday Night Program - 23 June 2010 Part One. Part one of a 2010 Sunday Night report on asbestos, covering the disease burden carried by workers and residents. At Wittenoom, CSR through Australian Blue Asbestos Ltd mined crocidolite from 1943 to 1966, with a peak town population of 881 in 1961. In February 2026 the Banjima Native Title Aboriginal Corporation filed a Federal Court compensation claim seeking remediation estimated at over 1.5 billion Australian dollars, which remains unresolved.
201. 2010-08-12 - The Pearlers. Film Australia's documentary on the pearlers, held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Hard-hat diving became standard in the 1880s and 1890s, shifting the labour from Aboriginal skin divers to indentured Asian workers; by 1901 Japanese divers made up 943 of 998 workers.
202. 2010-09-09 - National Heritage Listing: Part IV, Fitzroy River. The Kimberley Land Council on National Heritage listing for Martuwarra / Fitzroy River. The river runs from the Kimberley ranges to the coast at King Sound and is central to the Country of several peoples along its length. Listing was pursued by the traditional owners themselves.
203. 2011-04-04 - WA dams beginning to run dry. ABC News from 2011 on Western Australian dams falling to low levels. Perth's surface storages have supplied a declining share of the city's water as rainfall over the catchments dropped. The report shows the drawdown at the dam walls.
204. 2011-04-23 - VISITING HISTORIC GOLD MINING GHOST CITY OF COOLGARDIE WA WESTERN AUSTRALIA. A long walk through Coolgardie's surviving streetscape. Coolgardie became a municipality in 1894 and by 1898 was the third-largest town in the colony at about 15,000 people, with 700 Coolgardie-based mining companies registered with the London Stock Exchange. Its federal electorate was abolished in 1913 and the population fell to roughly 200.
205. 2011-04-23 - HALLS CREEK WA WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Halls Creek in the east Kimberley. Charles Hall and Jack Slattery located gold here in 1885, the first payable field in Western Australia, drawing several thousand prospectors onto Country in the far north years before the eastern goldfields opened.
206. 2011-04-23 - TWENTY FIRST CENTURY KALGOORLIE, THE GOLD SUPERPIT FIMISTON WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Twenty-first century Kalgoorlie and the Fimiston pit, shot at ground level around the town. The Golden Mile has been worked continuously since 1893, first underground and now open-cut.
207. 2011 - CHOGM 2011 protest. Bringing Them Home was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997 after 777 submissions, 535 of them from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
208. 2011 - WTF Marlene Oostryck Freo Road to Rail rally, Sam Wainwright. Comprehensive legal protection for Aboriginal pastoral workers did not arrive until 1968, twenty-two years after the strike began.
209. 2011 - CHOGM 2011 protestedit. CHOGM 2011, protest that took place on the opening day, an anti nuclear protester photographing a police officer. The photograph was made by the police, not by the people pictured.
210. 2011 - CHOGM protest William Hay-. CHOGM protests on Friday 28 October 2011 in Perth, Western Australia. John Howard refused a formal apology and moved a Motion of Reconciliation on 26 August 1999; Kevin Rudd delivered the National Apology on 13 February 2008, passed unanimously.
211. 2011 - Murchison River Gorge - Z-bend. The Murchison cuts its gorge through Tumblagooda sandstone before it reaches the coast. Kalbarri is on Nanda Country.
212. 2011 - O'Conner grave. The causal link between the press campaign and his death is often asserted and has not been established. Charles Yelverton O'Connor arrived in the colony in April 1891 as Engineer-in-Chief and built both Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields pipeline.
213. 2011 - Anigozanthos manglesii Kangaroo Paw DSC 0135. Anigozanthos manglessii, Kensington Bush, Perth, WA, 13/10/2011. Average annual rainfall across the southwest has fallen by as much as 20 percent since the 1970 s, with maximum temperatures rising.
214. 2011 - Boranup. 100 year old regrowth forest. Karri grows only where the rainfall and the soil coincide, in a narrow band of the deep southwest.
215. 2011 - Boranup. 100 year old regrowth forest. Wildflower season runs roughly August to November and moves south with the warmth, corresponding to Kambarang in the Noongar calendar.
216. 2011 - Coolgardie High Street. Great Eastern Highway in Coolgardie, looking west from near Hunt Street.Original description: Coolgardie High Street. The telegraph line from Adelaide reached Perth in 1877 and ended the colony's isolation by months.
217. 2011 - Bunbury freemasons. Freemasons lodge in Wittenoom Street, Bunbury. Limestone quarried on site is the common material of these streets, cut by convicts after 1850.
218. 2011 - City of bunbury. 's name. Walyalup is the Noongar name for Fremantle.
219. 2011 - Perth skyline and Kwinana Freeway 2009. W:Kwinana Freeway, w:Mandurah railway, and w:Perth, Western Australia skyline from footbridge over freeway in w:Como, Western Australia.
220. 2011 - WTF Jim Owens Round House 1. At Round House, Fremantle. It held Aboriginal prisoners awaiting transport to Wadjemup.
221. 2011 - Heritage day 2011. S taken during Heritage Day Perth Western Australia w:Plantin Polyglot Bible published in Antwerp 1572, first volume open on Genesis 1. owned by the Benedictine monatery New Norcia, Western Australia. The camera here belonged to the mission administration, not to the people in front of it.
222. 2011 - Roundhouse. 2011. The Round house, Fremantle Western Australia built 1831.
223. 2011 - WTF Marlene Oostryck Bathers Beach from Round House. 1- Bathers Beach from the Round House, Fremantle, Western Australia. It stands on Arthur Head above the tunnel cut through to the whalers' bay.
224. 2011 - Govt Warning - Wittenoom WA. State government warning sign near the entrance to Wittenoom township in Western Australia. The peak town population was 881 in 1961.
225. 2011 - Mine Tailings - Wittenoom WA. The declared contaminated site covers 46,840 hectares, described as the largest in the southern hemisphere, a claim that carries a date rather than a measurement.
226. 2011 - Paraburdoo mine 2. The Paraburdoo iron ore mine in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Prospector Stan Hilditch located the deposits in 1957 that became Mount Whaleback at Newman.
227. 2011 - Brockman 4 open pit. A drill rig for drilling blast holes can be seen in the front of the picture. In a 1984 television interview Hancock advocated the forced sterilisation of Aboriginal people and opposed land rights.
228. 2011 - CSIRO ScienceImage 11678 A Rio Tinto iron ore shiploader in operation in the Pilbara. A teleoperated shiploader designed to remotely control the loading iron ore is being trialled by Rio Tinto at a port in the Pilbara. The Pilbara ships iron ore on a scale measured in hundreds of millions of tonnes a year, from pits, rail and ports that were all built for that single commodity.
229. 2011-06-27 - Puntukurnu Parna, A Short Film by Curtis Taylor. Puntukurnu Parna, a short film by Martu filmmaker Curtis Taylor made through CuriousWorks. Taylor works from Parnngurr in the Western Desert and films Country from inside the community rather than as a visitor. The piece is one of the earliest of his works to circulate widely.
230. 2011-06-30 - Kimberley gas hub land access deal signed. ABC News reports the signing of a land access deal for a proposed Kimberley gas hub in 2011. The proposal at James Price Point divided traditional owners and was ultimately abandoned. Land access agreements of this kind are the mechanism through which most such disputes are settled or fought.
231. 2011-09-30 - Rottnest. NITV on Wadjemup / Rottnest Island. The island was an Aboriginal prison from 1838 to 1931, with a gap between 1849 and 1855, and over 3,600 Aboriginal men and boys were imprisoned there. At least 370 died in custody and are buried in unmarked graves north of the Quod.
232. 2011-11-07 - Yindjibarndi community fights Pilbara mine. ABC News reports the Yindjibarndi community fighting a Pilbara mine in 2011. The dispute over the Solomon Hub operation continued through the courts for more than a decade. It ended with a Federal Court compensation award in the Yindjibarndi people's favour.
233. 2011-11-17 - Newmont Boddington Gold Mine. The Boddington gold mine, southeast of Perth in the Darling Range. Boddington was first developed for gold in the laterite cap and later deepened into the underlying bedrock.
234. 2011-11-23 - Yindjibarndi protest at Fortescue Metals Group AGM. Yindjibarndi people protest at a Fortescue Metals Group annual general meeting in 2011. Taking the dispute to the company's shareholders was one strand of a campaign that also ran through the Federal Court. The litigation concluded in the Yindjibarndi people's favour.
235. 2011-11-29 - Aboriginal Guided Tour - Yiwarra Kuju. An Aboriginal-guided tour of the Yiwarra Kuju exhibition of Canning Stock Route paintings. The works were made by artists from the desert communities the route crosses. Guiding the exhibition themselves is part of how the collection was intended to be shown.
236. 2011-12-13 - Yiwarra Kuju - The Canning Stock Route Exhibition
237. 2012-01-28 - Anne Poelina: My Story. Anne Poelina tells her own story. She is a Nyikina Warrwa woman from the Martuwarra / Fitzroy River in the Kimberley. First-person accounts of this kind are the counterweight to a documentary record written largely by institutions.
238. 2012-02-13 - Opening the Common Gate - Living in Broome. Opening the Common Gate, on living in Broome, published on indigiTUBE. Broome's population grew from 121 in 1891 to over 1,000 by 1900 on the back of the pearling industry. The town's Aboriginal and Asian populations both formed around work the White Australia Policy formally excluded.
239. 2012-03-30 - MMR2010 One Arm Point The Bardi Jawi Mob. One Arm Point at the tip of the Dampier Peninsula, filmed with the Bardi Jawi community. The community sits above the reef and tidal races of the Buccaneer Archipelago, where some of the largest tides in Australia run between the islands. Bardi Jawi hold native title over this land and the sea Country around it.
240. 2012-04-25 - Characters of the Kimberley - Meet Donny Woolagoodja. A profile of the Worrorra artist Donny Woolagoodja, published by Australia's North West. Woolagoodja is among the artists authorised by his community to depict the Wandjina, and he created the Wandjina projected onto the Sydney Opera House in 2016. Authorisation by community, rather than copyright clearance alone, is what governs this imagery.
241. 2012-06-01 - Noongar groups ready to fight South West Native title buy out. ABC News reports Noongar groups preparing to contest the South West native title arrangement in 2012. Litigation and appeals followed the initial agreement. The Federal Court upheld registration of the six agreements in December 2019.
242. 2012 - Burrup Rock Art. Aboriginal rock art from the Murujuga / Burrup PeninsulaPhotographers Description: Older than the Iliad. They're actually carved, or scraped might be the better word, into the rock, rather than painted. Between 1963 and 2006 an estimated 900 sites, about 24.4 percent of them, were destroyed for industrial development. The state government disputed that figure.
243. 2012 - Parliament House 13 06 12. People on steps of Parliament House, w:Perth, Western Australia, during protest about w:Perth waterfont development. A joint select committee of the UK Parliament refused the secession petition in, November 1935, ruling that the Statute of Westminster 1931 left Westminster unable to act.
244. 2012 - Parliament House Perth, Western Australia 13 06 12. Banner on side of rented vehicle, Parliament House, w:Perth, Western Australia during protest about w:Perth waterfront development. On 8 April 1933 the state voted 66.23 percent to leave the federation, on a turnout of 91.6 percent, and on the same day threw out the government that had put the question.
245. 2012 - Barnett 13 06 12. Premier of Western Australia, w:Colin Barnett, in the crowd, listening to speakers against the current w:Perth waterfront development on the steps of Parliament House, Perth, Western Australia, 13th, June 2012.
246. 2012 - Parliament House protest speaker. W:Perth waterfont development protest speaker at Parliament House, w:Perth, Western Australia 13 06 12. Bringing Them Home was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997 after 777 submissions, 535 of them from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
247. 2012 - Clackline Brook Bridge from west. The bridge was a road bridge adjacent to the railway bridge that went over the Brook as well. The new alignment of the Great Eastern Highway runs over the brook to the left rear of the photograph view.
248. 2012 - Osprey. 2012. Take aways again. I cant eat any more so I will hide it somewhere.
249. 2012 - Congelin Water Tank Tower and Ash Pit. Remains of the water tank tower and ash pit at the Congelin Siding of the Hotham Valley Branch on the Pinjarra to Narrogin line. Windmills lifting bore water into tanks made pastoral occupation of the arid interior possible, and the same water points had often been Aboriginal soaks first.
250. 2012 - Wave Rock, 2012. Wave Rock, near Hyden, Western Australia. A couple of visitors to Australia, Toni (left) and Hannah (right), give an indication of the very substantial height of the wave. The granite face near Hyden stands on Ballardong Noongar Country.
251. 2012 - Millstream National Park, Pilbara, Western Australia, Python Pool. Python Pool in the Millstream-Chichester National Park. Deep burgundy soils and rocks are from the high concentration of iron.
252. 2012 - Mundaring Weir looking from north ledge. Mundaring weir (Lake C Y O'Connor) upper reaches (looking approximately south east from North Ledge). Water rises about 390 metres between the weir and the goldfields, which is why the pumping stations exist at all.
253. 2012 - Perth CBD from Mill Point. In 1962 residents left their lights on as John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6 passed overhead, which is where the City of Light name comes from.
254. 2012 - Perth City Skyline Across Lake. The state was sealed by its own border from 5 April 2020 to 3 March 2022, close to twenty-three months. Perth's skyline is the visible record of successive resource booms, each one adding a layer of towers.
255. 2012 - Perth Skyline 2012. Boorloo is the Noongar name for this place, on Whadjuk Noongar Country. In 1962 residents left their lights on as John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6 passed overhead, which is where the City of Light name comes from.
256. 2012 - New Norcia station ESA. ESA's New Norcia station (DSA 1 − Deep Space Antenna 1), hosts a 35-metre deep-space antenna with transmission and reception in both S- and X-band. It is located 140 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, close to the town of New Norcia. The camera here belonged to the mission administration, not to the people in front of it.
257. 2012 - Port Albany from end of breakwater. The coastal ports handle grain, ore, livestock and rock lobster along a shore with very few natural harbours. Grain from the wheatbelt leaves through Geraldton, Kwinana, Albany and Esperance.
258. 2012 - Brockman 4 train 7. An iron ore train loading at the Brockman 4 mine, Western Australia. Hancock partnered with Peter Wright and took royalties of about 25 million dollars a year, split between them.
259. 2012 - Don Rhodes Mt Newman Mining 5451, 2012. Ex-Western Pacific Railroad, ex-Mt Newman Mining EMD F7 Bo-Bo diesel-electric loco no. 5451, at the Don Rhodes Mining and Transport Museum, Wilson Street, Port Hedland, Western Australia.
260. 2012-10-13 - Pearl Luggers. NITV on the pearl luggers of Broome. Aboriginal people collected and traded pearl shell for at least 500 years before British colonisation; the colonial industry that followed relied on blackbirding of Aboriginal people, including women and children used as skin divers.
261. 2012-11-27 - Timber Getting in Western Australia.. A record of timber getting in Western Australia, covering falling, snigging and the mill. The jarrah and karri industry drove the construction of private timber railways through the southwest and supported a string of company mill towns. The same forest country was later handed to Group Settlement families from 1921 to clear for dairying.
262. 2013-02-10 - Aboriginal water values and management in northern Australia. CSIRO research on Aboriginal water values and management in northern Australia. Water rights in the north remain largely unallocated to traditional owners despite native title determinations over the surrounding Country. The distinction between land rights and water rights is the live question.
263. 2013-04-25 - Australia's Golden Mile Kalgoorlie Boulder. A tour of the Golden Mile at Kalgoorlie-Boulder, the concentrated ore body worked since Hannan, Flanagan and Shea located gold at Mount Charlotte in 1893. The many separate leases along it were progressively consolidated into the single open pit now worked at Fimiston.
264. 2013-05-09 - Returnof_the_stockmen_as_Aboriginal_men_are_lured_back_to_C. A report on Aboriginal men returning to stockwork on northern cattle stations after decades away from the industry. Aboriginal workers left the stations in large numbers after equal-wage decisions changed the economics of employing them, following the arc that began with the 1946 Pilbara strike and ended with comprehensive legal protection in 1968. The return is a recruitment story with that history behind it.
265. 2013-05-14 - Aboriginal Stockmen return to Gina Rinehart's Mulga Downs cattle station. A long record of Aboriginal stockmen returning to Mulga Downs station in the Pilbara, the property associated with the Hancock family. Mulga Downs sits in the district where about 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers walked off stations from 1 May 1946 in a strike led by Dooley Bin Bin, Clancy McKenna and Don McLeod that ran to August 1949. Gina Rinehart, born 1954, is the current head of the family company.
266. 2013-05-27 - On Country in the desert rangelands. RangelandsNRM films work on Country across the desert rangelands of Western Australia. The rangelands cover most of the state's land area and are managed through a mix of pastoral leases, Aboriginal-held land and conservation reserves. Ranger groups carry much of the on-ground work in the desert portion.
267. 2013 - Kimberley Rock Art ABC 7.30 Report Kimberley Foundation Australia. An ABC 7.30 report on Kimberley rock art, published by what was then the Kimberley Foundation Australia. The organisation later operated as Rock Art Australia. Galleries in the Kimberley sit on Ngarinyin, Wunambal and Worrorra Country.
268. 2013 - Narelda Jacobs - National Sorry Day Australia. Noongar Journalist Narelda Jacobs follows on from her father Cedric Jacobs' speech at National Sorry Day 2013 in Perth, Western Australia. The banner behind her reads "SORRY TODAY". Bringing Them Home was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997 after 777 submissions, including 535 from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It characterised the forced separation policies as genocide.
269. 2013 - WTW Nov 2013 Team Flower 010. From w:Wikipedia Takes Waroona, Jarrah forest. Jarrah forest covers much of the southwest, and its timber and the bauxite beneath it have both been extracted from the same ground.
270. 2013 - Cape Arid National Park, Western Australia 450. Grey Bush Kangaroos at Cape Arid NP. Cape Arid is an area along the south coast of Western Australia. White sandy beaches and granite headlands are features along this coast.
271. 2013 - Lake argyle. Ancient hills around the lake. The reservoir is among the largest in Australia by volume.
272. 2013 - Gija Jumula. Gija Jumulu is a 750 year-old Boabab tree that stood in the way of a new bridge that was to be constructed near Telegraph Creek in the northern part of Western Australia. Boabs grow only in the Kimberley and the adjoining Northern Territory, and some individual trees are centuries old.
273. 2013 - Lake argyle local. Cant remember if they are Euro's or not. The Durack family overlanded cattle to the Ord in 1883, one of the great pastoral drives and the beginning of European occupation here.
274. 2013 - Karijini National Park, Pilbara Region, Western Australia, Kalmina Gorge. Kalmina gorge has spectacular red cliffs of red banded iron formations, reflected in the waters of the gorge. The Pilbara Craton contains rock over three billion years old and covers about 507,896 square kilometres.
275. 2013 - Giant Red Tingle Tree, Valley of the Giants Walpole Western Australia 314. Most spectacular local species is red tingle (Eucalyptus jacksonii) - giant eucalipt. This tree is over 22m in circumference and over 6m diameter. While bushfires have left the internal walls of the trunk black, the tree has survived over 400 years. The Valley of the Giants walk carries visitors through the crowns of tingle trees rather than past their trunks.
276. 2013 - Carnaby's Black Cockatoo, Perth, Western Australia. Female (pale bill, grey eye-ring) on the left, male (dark bill, pink eye-ring) on the right. It nests in hollows that take a century or more to form in old trees.
277. 2013 - O Connor bch. O'Connor Beach, with the SS Wyola hull. Charles Yelverton O'Connor arrived in the colony in, April 1891 as Engineer-in-Chief and built both Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields pipeline.
278. 2013 - Kalbarri Eagle Gorge 1234. Waves from the Indian Ocean crash against the stark cliffs of Eagle Gorge, Kalbarri National Park, Western Australia. Cyclone Seroja made landfall near Kalbarri on 11 April 2021, damaging about 70 percent of structures in the town and destroying about 40 percent.
279. 2013 - Fisherman carved heritage pole at Preston Beach town entrance (E37@WTW2013). The entrance and main yard of the cell block. Craypots and the boats built to carry them are the standard working gear of this coast.
280. 2013 - Walk along the oldest things on Earth (Hamelin pool stromatolites) II. This will make you feel like a little human; but lucky for you, this is going to happen in one of the most stunning and calm waters you will ever see.
281. 2013 - Jarrah Feature Wall - Strawbale House Build in Redmond Western Australia. We have some internal dividing walls in gyprock, but were adamant not to have more than one such wall per bedroom. Timber milling built towns across the southwest and cleared the forest that the Group Settlement Scheme then tried and failed to farm.
282. 2013 - Ensuite Vanity Complete - Strawbale House Build in Redmond Western Australia. The beautiful double vanity Tim helped us make out of the discarded laundry cabinets that came with our secondhand kitchen. Karri and jarrah went out through Bunbury and Busselton to build railways and wharves on three continents.
283. 2013 - Birriliburu IPA Declaration Ceremony, April 2013. The declaration ceremony for the Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area, held on Country in April 2013. The IPA covers Martu Country in the Little Sandy Desert, including the Katjarra / Carnarvon Range. Katjarra holds Karnatukul / Serpent's Glen, and has been closed to public visits since 2008 at the request of Traditional Owners.
284. 2013 - Arthur head res. Railway sheds and yard land behind the quay. The Round House of 1831 is the oldest surviving public building in the state, built as a gaol in the colony's second year.
285. 2013 - Victoria Quay. The first ocean-going steamer, the Sultan, berthed on 4 May 1897, and the works were completed in 1903. He was made CMG for the harbour, and a government inquiry later cleared him of the corruption accusations made against him in the press.
286. 2013 - Fremantle fishing boat harbour 1. Fishing boats in Fremantle Fishing boat Harbour, Kailis fish and chips in the background. The southwest's small mammals have been reduced by foxes and cats to fenced reserves and offshore islands.
287. 2013 - Woodside flame. Woodside gas plant Karratha. The North West Shelf gas trains stand on the same peninsula as the Murujuga petroglyphs. The art and the industry are the same ground.
288. 2013 - Pilbara Iron, Tom Price to Dampier Railway. Tom Price to Dampier Railway. The Hamersley iron ore mines sit on Banjima, Yinhawangka and Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country.
289. 2013-06-24 - Canning Stock Route Collection - Copyright and Licensing. The Arts Law Centre of Australia on copyright and licensing in the Canning Stock Route collection. The collection was made by artists from communities along a route cut through their Country for moving cattle. Licensing terms were negotiated with the artists rather than assumed.
290. 2013-06-24 - Canning Stock Route Collection: Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property + Moral Rights. The Arts Law Centre of Australia discusses Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and moral rights in relation to the Canning Stock Route collection. Copyright and cultural rights are different systems, and clearing one does not clear the other. That distinction governs how this archive treats every Aboriginal cultural image.
291. 2013-07-02 - Christ the King 100 Years. One hundred years of Christ the King, published on indigiTUBE. Mission churches in the Kimberley remain in use by the communities that grew around them, which complicates any simple account of what the buildings now mean. The material is published by Aboriginal community media.
292. 2013-10-29 - Constructing Australia (2007) Pipe Dreams. A feature documentary on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, the 530 km pipeline that carries water from Mundaring Weir to Kalgoorlie through eight pumping stations. Engineer-in-Chief Charles Yelverton O'Connor designed it to deliver about 5 million imperial gallons a day, roughly 23,000 cubic metres. Premier John Forrest introduced the loan bill of 2.5 million pounds on 16 July 1896. O'Connor shot himself at Robb Jetty, South Fremantle, on 10 March 1902, before the scheme was opened.
293. 2013-10-30 - Western Desert Project. The Western Desert Project, published by Aboriginal NRM. Martu people manage Country across the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson deserts. Water sources are the fixed points around which desert Country is worked.
294. 2013-10-30 - The 1946 Strike - rebels of the Pilbara. The Museum of Australian Democracy on the 1946 strike and the rebels of the Pilbara. About 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers walked off stations from 1 May 1946, led by Dooley Bin Bin, Clancy McKenna and Don McLeod. The action ran until August 1949 and is described as the longest industrial action in Australian history, a claim that rests on limited sourcing and should be attributed.
295. 2013-12-28 - Empires of Dust Ch 1. Chapter one of Empires of Dust, on the northern pastoral industry and the labour that ran it. Aboriginal stockmen, drovers and domestic workers were the workforce of the Kimberley and Pilbara stations for most of the twentieth century, on rations rather than wages. The 1946 Pilbara strike, from 1 May 1946 to August 1949, was the direct response.
296. 2014-02-20 - Noongar Native Title Settlement Bulletin. A South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council bulletin on the Noongar native title settlement. The Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Recognition Act 2016 formally recognises Noongar ownership, and its title carries the Noongar words for past, present and future. The Federal Court upheld registration of the six agreements on 19 December 2019.
297. 2014-02-25 - Landmark recognition for Noongar people. NITV reports landmark recognition for Noongar people. The Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Recognition Act 2016 gave that recognition statutory form. Noongar is the spelling used by SWALSC and by the Act, alongside variants including Nyoongar, Nyungar and Nyungah.
298. 2014-02-27 - Celebration for Noongar people. NITV films celebration among Noongar people following a native title milestone. The agreement covers around 200,000 square kilometres of the state's south west. It has been described, as of 2020, as the largest native title settlement in Australian history.
299. 2014-03-20 - Anvil Media | Productive Solutions to Dryland Salinity. A long form look at farm-scale responses to dryland salinity, including revegetation and drainage. The underlying process is the loss of deep-rooted native plants, which lets water tables rise and bring stored salt to the surface. The video presents production options for affected land.
300. 2014-04-11 - Destination WA - Broome. A profile of Broome, the Kimberley pearling port on Yawuru Country. The town's Chinatown and its cemeteries record a workforce of Japanese, Malay, Filipino, Koepanger and Chinese divers and crew, with Japanese divers making up 943 of 998 workers by 1901. Aboriginal people had collected and traded pearl shell here for at least 500 years before British colonisation.

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