Welcome to Country - a Wajarri perspective on Australia and New Zealand's bid to host the SKA

A view of Wajirri country - the region around the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) in the Mid-West region of Western Australia - as seen from the perspective of Wajirri man Mr Godfrey Simpson.
The film features the Wajirri naming ceremony for the first six dishes of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope in June 2011, lists some of the benefits to the local community of this project and Australia and New Zealand's bid to host the core of the full Square Kilometre Array telescope in the region.

More information: http://www.ska.gov.au

Transcript: http://www.innovation.gov.au/transcripts

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SKA;
• Square
• Kilometre
• Array;
• Wajarri;
• Western
• Australia
• country
• welcome