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No one ever forgets Monkey Mia. The tiny town on the shores of Shark Bay is famous for its dolphins.

Dolphins that swim up to greet you, bump your legs, splash you and, let’s face it, laugh at you. After a day with the dolphins you can easily imagine them trilling, in chorus, ‘so long and thanks for all the fish‘.

For more than forty years the bottleneck dolphins have been visiting and interacting with us, and we still don’t know why. Maybe they just like to play with us, as we do with them.

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Meet Migaloo, a large albino humpback whale who travels regularly along the east coast of Australia during the whale migration season from late June to October.

Forget Moby Dick. The fictional white whale is legendary, but the magnificent Migaloo is living, a wondrous and unique mammal of great beauty. Records have been kept for over a century of the tens of thousands of humpback whales - but no one has seen an albino before. You don’t have to tag Migaloo with a marker, there is no other like him in all of the waters of the world.
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The Red, Black and Gold of the Indigenous Australian Flag sprang from passionate times.

It was a symbol of race and identity in the Land Rights struggles of the 1970s, when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fought their exclusion from proper education, health care, housing and employment.

For those who know the history of this country and recognise its terrible legacy of injustice for indigenous people, the raising of the flag is unifying and inclusive. It’s a commitment to our future together. Continue Reading »

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