![Photo from scrapbook of Montebello nuclear explosion in 1952 from 10 miles away](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2023-03/slwa_b6335937_1_master-31.jpg?h=b20a78a4&itok=67Xa0e1e)
1952 - 1956
SLWA on ABC Radio
The British conducted three nuclear tests on the Montebello Islands between 1952 and 1956. The final test was six times bigger than the Hiroshima bomb.
![Its OK to be Gay - Connections nightclub poster](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-11/slwa_b6415872_36.jpg?h=cee24ac3&itok=C-VhVT4K)
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate discusses the State Library’s collections relating to the LGBTQIA+ community in WA as part of PrideFEST celebrations and the acquisition of 270 Connections Nightclub posters.
![Hondius World Map by Jodocus Hondius 1594-1629 issued 1664](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-10/Hondius%20world%20map%20Clement%20de%20jonghe%20image%201664.jpg?h=9b001c77&itok=5M05wtSP)
Maps and charts
WA history
A new addition to the State Library collection, the Hondius World Map by Jodocus Hondius the younger (1594 – 1629) is the earliest printed map to show the recent Dutch explorations on the West Coast of Australia.
![Serventy family books](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-05/20220506%20%282%29.jpg?itok=QHGHb_Vj)
SLWA on ABC Radio
Join Dr Kate as she delves into the Serventy family archives held by the State Library.
![DSCF1765Julie Raffaele Battye Fellow](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-07/DSCF1765_Julie%20Raffaele%20Battye%20Fellow.jpg?itok=1tKiBkcc)
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Dr Kate and Julie Raffaele, discuss her research into the Smelters' Camp (aka Robb Jetty Camp) - a transient person's campsite that existed for over half a century (1898 to 1960) among the dunes of Cockburn Sound and was originally an Aboriginal gathering place.
![006758d May Holman 1920s](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-03/006758d%20May%20Holman%201920s.jpg?h=5edf9817&itok=PDNrgyKK)
Australia’s first female Labor parliamentarian
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Join Dr Kate as she explores the extraordinary life of May Holman, Australia’s first female Labor parliamentarian, a member of the WA Legislative Assembly from 1925 -1939.
![Wongan Hills Newsagency 25th Sept 1998](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-03/slwa_b2642700_1.jpg?itok=qbGg5fk3)
Small towns & regional cities
Wongan Hills is located 185km from Perth in the Shire of Wongan – Balidu in the Wheatbelt region. The shire falls within the traditional lands of the Ballardong Noongar and Yued Noongar people.
![Sadie Corner later Canning training at Bethesda Hospital Melbourne ca1950](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-02/BA1340-ERA3-88D_Sadie%20Corner%20at%20Bethesda%20Hospital%20Melbourne%20c1950.jpg?h=e8d00124&itok=k_OMPFHc)
Aboriginal stories
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Sadie Canning (nee Corner) was Western Australia's first Aboriginal nurse. She was a member of the Stolen Generations and grew up at Mount Margaret Mission in the north eastern goldfields.
![Don McLeod 1972](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-02/DSCF4767_Don%20McLeod.jpg?itok=N1YGRC78)
Rebel outsider chiselled from the Pilbara rock
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Join John Hughes, Senior Subject Specialist, on ABC Radio discussing Don McLeod (1908 -1999) a miner, handyman and major activist for Aboriginal rights.
![King Bay Dampier Western Australia 1966](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-12/slwa_b6116900_2.jpg?h=3182bb80&itok=mbJHnZHu)
Small towns & regional cities
Dampier is a port town in the Pilbara region, twenty kilometres west of Karratha. It is named after the British explorer William Dampier who visited in 1699.
![Walking on Water Spirit of the Swan Coastal Plain](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-11/Walking%20on%20Water_Drupal_2560x14402.jpg?itok=CyY5SYS3)
Spirit of the Swan Coastal Plain
Podcasts
Rare Stories from the West
Rare Stories from the West - Part 1. A podcast exploring the significance of the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River) in the creation of the city of Perth. Produced by Gina Pickering.
![CMD767 Left Right Out Queer Disclosure podcast cover art](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-11/CMD676_Podcast%20cover%20art_left.jpg?itok=nIqUfkvy)
Queer Disclosure
Podcasts
Rare Stories from the West
Rare Stories from the West - Part 3. Podcast exposes how LGBTQ history has not been well recorded, preserved, nor exhibited by the State’s cultural institutions in the past.