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On Sunday August 4, 2013 the registration desk of the 11th Polychaete Conference opened...

Indigenous theatre, music and political activism in Australia through poster art from the 80s and 90s.

This morning another two dives were made, one at 24m on a flat sandy bottom with Halophila and lots of solitary corals.

After almost 10 days of collecting polychaetes we have almost 1100 registered lots of seaworms representing over 50 families.

Connoisseur and scholar of Balinese art and culture.

Today is the anniversary of the unfortunate death of the Museum's first employee, William Holmes.

The flag for a colonial ruler.

Directly after the 11th International Polychaete Conference a group of researchers headed off to Lizard Island Research Station.

One of the preconference workshops was a 5 day intensive course on the Philosophy of Biological Systematics.

Sue Lindsay from our Microscopy & Microanalysis Unit highlighted photographing techniques of small preserved polychaetes.

Remote community on a major shipping route.

Island home - island prison.

A pre-conference workshop. Identification of Invasive Polychaetes started on 1 August.

Our native wars - no longer out of mind.

Today we opened the first public event related to the International Polychaetes Conference.