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Panel 3: Microscopic World The River The smallest animals and plants in the river are too small to be seen with the naked eye. There is a microscopic world teeming with thousands of species of viruses, bacteria, micro algae and protozoa. There can be hundreds of...
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Panel 2: A Bucket of Mud To explore the microscopic (very small) fauna of the estuary we employed an environmental research company, Ecowise Consultants, to carry out a study of the animals who live in the mud. This layer contains many species that live on the...
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The lower Maribyrnong River is an ‘estuary’, which is that part of the river that meets, and is affected by the sea; in this case Port Phillip Bay. Panel 1: Introduction and The Estuary The Exhibition This exhibition, Pobblebonk, is primarily about the animals or...
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Introduction and Acknowledgements The lower Maribyrnong River is an ‘estuary’, which is that part of the river that meets, and is affected by the sea; in this case Port Phillip Bay. The Exhibition The exhibition, Pobblebonk, is made up of ten panels and is on display...
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Panel 8: A New Country – Many women contributing to society in the west have come from somewhere else Amna Maleken Amna trained as a social worker at Cairo University in 1971. She immigrated to Australia in 1989 and renewed contact with a group of older women from the...
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Panel 7: The Arts – There are many women in this part of town contributing to the arts Ada Cambridge Ada was born in 1844. She was a self-educated woman of the late 19th century who had a career as a writer. She lived in Williamstown for 25 years and was the wife of a...