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  • Pablo Picasso
  • Read • 5 Aug 2024

    Wattle: ‘bush tucker’, a connection to Country & an Australian identity

    There are some 1,000 Australian Acacia species and they grow across every state and territory, these plants are adaptable and resilient and have become …
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  • Read • 7 May 2024

    Women of the Central Desert, South Australia

    Wawiriya Burton’s Ngayuku ngura – My Country 2018 and Nellie Ngampa Coulthard’s Tjuntala Ngurangka (Country with Acacia Wattle) 2018 are vibrant compositions that hum …
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  • Read • 26 Aug 2023

    Wattles in flower

    As we celebrate National Wattle Day on the first day of September each year, we delve into two works that include the wattle — with over …
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  • Read • 31 Aug 2022

    Go back in time to Daphne Mayo’s 1914 Wattle Day celebrations in Brisbane

    It’s National Wattle Day on the first day of September, and we’ve been celebrating the Wattle for different reasons for over a century …
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    • Daphne Mayo
  • Read • 30 Aug 2021

    Wattle: From the illustrations of May Gibbs to Ellis Rowan’s watercolours

    National Wattle Day was first celebrated in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia on 1 September 1910, then in Western Australia and Queensland in …
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  • Read • 30 Aug 2020

    National Wattle Day: A celebration of a floral emblem

    In 1988, the year of Australia’s bicentenary, the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) was officially gazetted as Australia’s national floral emblem, enjoying a popular …
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