Description: Pemulwuy (c. 1750 – c. 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug, an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales. One of the most famous Aboriginal resistance fighters in the colonial era, he is noted for his resistance to British colonisation which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788.
Description: What happens when you mesh a 1970s burlesque of 1950s science fiction with a 1960s pop art pastiche replicating a panel from a romance comic of the same era? This wonderful frankensteinian mash-up depicting Janet Weiss during the floor show sequence of the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Description: The Forest Raven is the largest and heaviest Australian corvid with a large bill and short tail. It is native to Tasmania and parts of southern Victoria, such as Wilsons Promontory and Portland. Populations are also found in parts of New South Wales, including Dorrigo and Armidale.
Description: The helmeted honeyeater is a passerine bird in the honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies of the yellow-tufted honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve.
Description: The Tasmanian nativehen is a flightless rail and one of twelve species of birds endemic to Australia’s island state of Tasmania. The species has actually benefited from the introduction of European-style agricultural practices in Tasmania. Its success may also be attributed to the recent extinction of its main predator, the thylacine.
Description: The platypus, sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. It has a sense of electrolocation, which it uses to detect prey in cloudy water and is venomous.
Description: The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial. It was formerly present across mainland Australia, but became extinct there around 3,500 years ago; it is now confined to the island of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, the Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936.
