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Alexander Forrest & Early Development of the Kimberley Cattle Industry
Alexander Forrest & the Early Development of the Kimberley Cattle Industry By Marco Stojanovik The first pastoralists arrived in the Kimberley region of in north-west of Australia in the early...
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Coolgardie, Western Australia
Coolgardie Coolgardie, a small town in Western Australia, 558 kilometres east of Perth, has a grand history. During the Eastern Goldfields goldrush at the turn of the twentieth century, it reigned...
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Ghost Towns of Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields
Ghost Towns of Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields By Marco Stojanovik Following the discovery of gold in the 1890s, thousands of prospectors flocked to Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields...
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Aboriginal Shell Trade
Ancient Aboriginal Shell Trade By Marco Stojanovik Baler and pearl shell ornaments played a key role in the history of distant trading relationships across ancient Aboriginal Australia and remain an...
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Scenic air tours of Australia
Scenic air tours of Australia To reach as a traveller into outback Australia requires planning and time. There is for the mature and senior traveller much to see in this ancient continent with a long...
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John Eyre Colonial explorer of South Australia
Edward John Eyre’s Overlanding Adventures Edward John Eyre, one of Australia’s youngest and most fearless explorers, is immortalized in the names of the South Australian landscape, most notably Lake...
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Stranded in the Kimberley, Western Australia
Stranded in the Kimberley, Western Australia By Marco Stojanovik In the early hours of 16 October 1920, a small pearling lugger named Henry departed from the wharf at Wyndham, in Western Australia’s...
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The Ord River, Western Australia
The Ord River By Marco Stojanovik The mighty Ord River in the eastern Kimberley region of Western Australia is one of the country’s most significant waterways, home to spectacular scenery. Rising in...
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Argyle Diamond Mine
Argyle Diamond Mine Amongst a wealth of natural wonders in the Kimberley region of Western Australia sits one of the state’s most unique tourist attractions – the Argyle Diamond Mine – until recently...
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Menzies, Western Australia
Menzies By Marco Stojanovik The historic mining town of Menzies thrived during its heyday at the turn of the previous century, riding the wave of the Western Australian gold rush. With several...
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Mowanjum Rock Paintings and Burial Caves, Kimberley Western Australia
Kimberley Rock Paintings and Burial Caves By Marco Stojanovik The fascinating Kimberley Region of Western Australia – over 400, 000 square kilometres of pristine wilderness spanning Australia’s north...
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Aboriginal Messages
How did Australian Aboriginal People Send Messages? For thousands of years different Aboriginal nations and clans of Australia communicated with each other over vast distances with incredible speed...
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Aboriginal Fire Management
Introduction to Aboriginal Fire Management Traditional Aboriginal fire management, often called ‘cultural burning’, is the practice of regularly using fire to burn vegetation and manage the...
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The Royal Flying Doctor Service History
The Royal Flying Doctor Service History On 17 May 1928, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) was born, taking its first flight across the skies of Cloncurry, Queensland, on a life-saving mission....
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Motorcycle safety Australian outback
Motorcycle safety in the Australian outback For many who ride, the thought of taking one or more Australian outback motorcycle adventures as a road trip to observe first hand the Australian outback...
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France and an Australian Colony
How France Missed out on an Australian Colony By Marco Stojanovik Colonial Australia could quite easily have been split between Great Britain and France, with several French explorers touching on...
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Warri and Yatungka: Last of the Gibson Desert Nomads
The Story of Warri and Yatungka Warri and Yatungka were the last of the Mandildjara nomadic people to remain in their country – the Western Gibson Desert region of Western Australia. Having fall in...
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Pastoral Pioneers of the Kimberley, Western Australia
Pioneers in the Kimberley By Marco Stojanovik In 1880 news reached the little town of Pinjarah, Western Australia (then the Swan River Colony), of the wonderful, rich, extensive land in the Kimberly...
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Kunmunya Mission, Western Australia
Life on the Kunmunya Mission Originally established by the Presbyterian Church in 1913 at Port George IV Port, in 1920 the mission moved to Kunmunya for more arable land and a better water supply....
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Norman Tindale
Norman Tindale’s Aboriginal Tribes of Australia Norman B Tindale – pioneering anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist, and ethnologist – is best remembered for his work mapping the distribution of...
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