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Welcome to a journey beyond the ordinary, where museums, collections and landscapes of Western Australia reveal their otherworldly secrets...
As the cooler weather sweeps across Western Australia, the winter season unveils a unique charm, perfect for an upcoming road trip escapade...
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Paul Barron
Discover the incredible stories of WAnderland with Such Was Life: Season 2. Produced by Paul Barron, this captivating new twelve-part...
By
Paul Barron
Were it not for a stray cow, the railway near Bridgetown might be remembered as the place that Edward, Prince of Wales, died. In which case...
By
Paul Barron
The Group Settlement Scheme was launched by the Western Australian Government with a fanfare. It was promoted interstate and in Britain with...
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Paul Barron
Whaling has been associated with Albany, Western Australia, from the early days of European settlement. But did you know that, at the same...
By
Paul Barron
An American football on display in the Museum of the Great Southern is a memento of the time in WW2 when the American submarine fleet was...
By
Paul Barron
Such was life? For many in the early years of the remote Western Australian Goldfields it was And Such Was Death. It was a time when the...
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Paul Barron
Virtually unknown today, Welsh entrepreneur and amateur geologist GW Hall was a true “movers-and-shaker” in the early years of the WA...
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Paul Barron
The sequel to “Starring Water”, Water Encore is a story common to every community in the Goldfields. The population explosion that followed...
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Paul Barron
In the decade before CY O’Connor’s famous pipeline brought fresh water from far away Perth to the arid towns of the Western Australian...
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Paul Barron
Teenage Clara Saunders was the. First woman to be married in Coolgardie. The event was so unique that hundreds of miners came to witness the...