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Category: Science and Environment

Queensland

Reef revival

The Reef Sanctuary Pontoon on Lady Musgrave Island lagoon is revolutionising marine education.

History and Culture

The macabre history of Canberra’s ‘haunted’ NFSA building

The National Film and Sound Archives in Canberra is housed in a building with stripped classical architecture and Art Deco elements. But look closer and you’ll see wombat faces peeping through roundels, goannas carved on the heads of columns, frill-necked lizards framing the front entrance and a skylight in the foyer featuring a stylised platypus. These details are a window into its past as the National Museum of Australian Zoology, later renamed the Australian Institute of Anatomy.