The team at Black Mist Burnt Country are very excited to announce that the project is now official! We have been successful with our application for funding through Visions of Australia, the touring program of the Ministry for Arts. The Minister, The Hon Mitch Fifield made the announcement today. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who has […]
Emu proved not a suitable site for the lack of water, its remoteness, and the difficult access to it. So he extended his survey to country to the south, closer to the transcontinental railway. The country is marked by and sheer endless number of sand dunes some as much as 20 metres high, with mulga, […]
Among 4WD enthusiasts Len Beadell is known as the ‘last true explorer’. A memorial at Woomera cemetery commemorates him as “explorer surveyor roadmaker” who “opened up the outback to all people”. The Anne Beadell Highway, which runs East to West from Marble Station, 50 km east of Cooper Pedy, to Laverton in Western Australia, was […]
On 15 and 27 October 1953 the British conducted the first land-based atomic tests in Australia, at Emu also known as Emu Field or Emu Junction, a large clay pan, 300 km east of Cooper Pedy. The name stems from a footprint that was spotted in the dried out surface when British top brass arrived […]
Curator JD Mittmann has returned from another visit to Yalata to meet with community elders and managers to present an overview of the planned exhibition and its touring itinerary. In the meantime PM Tony Abbott was ousted and Malcom Turnbull has become Australia’s new prime minister. A new cabinet was sworn in on Monday. As […]