Published on: 22 May 2018
A NEW photographic exhibition has opened at the Mount Isa Civic Centre.
University of Queensland researchers have complied an exhibition titled Meston's Wild Australia Show 18921893.
Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in Queensland and the Northern Territory.