Gerard Foley

Senior Archivist

State Records Office of Western Australia

The history of swimming (and learning to swim) in WA.

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Geoff Thomas - Aviation 

How safe is Air Travel

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Ernie Manning  - Racing Historian

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Angela Smith – trainer of 1997 Perth Cup winner Time Frame

John Chalmers – owner of 1992 winner Mirror Magic

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Santa Never Made it into Darwin' was released as a charity single in January 1975

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Simon Smith - Curator 

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Cyclone Tracy 50th Anniversary

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Wilf Chambers, 22 December 2024

Thank you for your support in 2024 Harvey

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Dr Martin Drum

Professor, Politics and International Relations

BA (Hons) ANU; PhD UWA - Notre Dame

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Alison Wallace - Cyclone Tracy Survivor

On Christmas Eve of 1974, the 10-year-old huddled under the kitchen table with her family and clinging to her puppy Whisper during Cyclone Tracy, 

Alison recounts the night.

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Matt Woods – Perth Observatory

• The Heart Of The Solar System’s Most Volcanic World Is More Solid Than We Thought

•  NASA Thinks it Knows Why Ingenuity Crashed on Mars

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Dr Ruud Stelten, Flinders University

Bad weather led Dutch ship into Western Australian coast

The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found.

Published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University archaeologists Dr Ruud Stelten and Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde analysed ship logs, contemporary cartographic and navigational knowledge and weather patterns at the time in a bid to understand how the ship went down.

Four Dutch shipwrecks have been found off the coast of WA within the last century, with the Batavia and the horrors of its mutinous crew arguably the most famous of the collection.

Discovered in 1927 about 60km north of the WA coastal town of Kalbarri, and formally identified in 1958, the Zuytdorp was travelling from the Dutch port of Vlissingen on the way to Batavia, now present-day Jakarta, when it became lost at sea.

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