Media Centre

There's always something exciting happening here!

Our innovative exhibitions and programs, colourful galleries, and career development workshops are popular topics for local and national media coverage. We have media events for exhibition launches and always try to accommodate media requests for stories and information. Of course we also welcome coverage of our many outreach programs that travel all over the country.

Tenix Questacon Maths Squad

The Maths Squad preparing to go on tour.

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Media contact

Michelle Canning
Manager, Strategic Events and Media

E-mail: mcanning@questacon.edu.au
Phone: 02 6270 2804 or 0417 011 338
Fax: .... 02 6273 4346

Media releases

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Our media releases are available via manual download (see below) and by an automatic RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed for notification via news aggregators like Sage for the Firefox browser. These programs are available for free, for both Mac and PC. Apple's OS X Safari 2.0 browser supports RSS XML feeds natively.

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Download releases

Media releases are available as PDF files for download. Use the links below to jump directly to releases from that year.

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Media Releases 2008

Getting up early has never been so much fun! (21/4/08) 68 kB

Answer the Call of the Wild at Questacon! (7/3/08) 72 kB

Questacon Wins National Tourism Award (1/3/08) 60 kB

Unravel the Science of Spiders (23/2/08) 44 kB

Questacon 20th Anniversary Launch (15/2/08) 68 kB

Media Releases 2007

Questacon Wins Tourism Award (10/11/07) 64 kB

Questacon captures the spirit of innovation (15/8/07) 28 kB

New Illusions Exhibits (3/8/07) 96 kB

Questacon Science Play (16/7/07) 32 kB

Australia's Future Innovators and Inventors (09/07/07) 40 kB

Polar Day at Questacon (11/06/07) 27 kB

Chemistry gets Radical at Questacon (26/5/07) 28 kB

Questacon Wins International Awards (17/05/07) 32 kB

Woolooware Road Safety Campaign (26/4/07) 41 kB

Launch of IPY (1/3/07) 32 kB

Top Secret (12/02/07) 27 kB

Media Releases 2006

New Sculptures Unveiled (11/12/06) 28 kB

ACT Tourism Awards (17/11/06) 27 kB

Global Planet Lands (7/11/06) 28 kB

Questacon Science Play ( 26/10/06) 32 kB

Mini Q Space Lab launch (19/10/06) 28 kB

PM's Partnership Award (18/10/06) 172 kB

They All Blew Down - Wind Power! (22/09/06) 32 kB

Look to the Skies at Questacon (21/07/06) 32 kB

Low Fat Sausage (21/07/06) 40 kB

A Great Year for Questacon (11/07/06) 28 kB

Science Circus 21st Birthday (15/06/06) 40 kB

Budget 2006-07 (9/5/06) 40 kB

On Your Mark, Get Set, Go...Questacon! (14/03/06) 28 kB

Questacon Wins Tourism Award (27/02/06) 28 kB

Australia Japan Year of Exchange (13/2/06) 28 kB

Media Releases 2005

Family Christmas Celebration (02/12/05) 28 kB

Not Sold in Stores (31/10/05) 25 kB

Six Millionth Visitor (5/10/05) 25 kB

Toys Exhibition (1/8/05) 64 kB

Smart Moves Invention Convention 40 kB

Record on Long Weekend (15/6/05) 28 kB

Strike a Chord Open (18/5/05) 28 kB

Questacon Volunteers (9/5/05) 37 kB

Record Visitation so far in 2005 (28/4/05) 28 kB

Questacon Crime Scene Investigation (17/2/05) 36 kB

Media Releases 2004

Mini Q Launch (15/12/04) 60 kB

Tourism Award Nomination (26/11/04) 32 kB

Smart Moves in Tasmania (14/10/04) 56 kB

Invention Convention (22/9/04) 20 kB

Volunteer Gail & Her Guide Dog (22/9/04) 72 kB

Spring 2004 at Questacon 44 kB

Financial Review Award (30/7/04) 252 kB

Smart Moves Invention Convention (19/7/04) 80 kB

Tourism Accreditation (21/6/04) 20 kB

Eaten Alive Launch (3/3/04) 24 kB

Volunteers Honoured (18/2/04) 16 kB

Media Releases 2003

Questacon Turns 15! (26/11/03) 20 kB

Questacon in Sydney (6/9/03) 28 kB

Burarra Gathering Online (16/6/03) 92 kB

DNA50 (15/5/03) 104 kB

Volunteer Celebrations (11/5/03) 64 kB

Mathamazing Exhibition (1/4/03) 12 kB

Balloon Breakfast (13/3/03) 16 kB

IBM TryScience web event (4/3/03) 8 kB

Questacon's Tourism Award (23/2/03) 12 kB

Questacon fact sheets

Achievements 936 kB

Eaten Alive 1.0 MB

History 1.5 MB

Overview 964 kB

Questacon Imagination Factory 1.0 MB

Questacon Science Play 968 kB

Questacon Science Squad 592 kB

Questacon Smart Moves 204 kB

Questacon Smart Moves Invention Convention 300 kB

Shell Questacon Science Circus 1.1 MB

Sports Quest 612 kB

Tenix Questacon Maths Squad 1.7 MB

Questacon publications

Questacon's recent reports and booklets are available here or a printed copy can be mailed out to you (see contact details above).

The Questacon Review summarises Questacon's activities across Australia and around the world over the previous year. Up until 2001 Questacon also produced a formal annual report. This is now incorporated into our parent department's Annual Report .
- 2006-07 Looking to the Future (62 page pdf, 4.6 MB)
- 2005-06 A Year of High Energy and Achievement (60 page pdf, 4.5 MB)
- 2004-05 Inspiring Innovation in Young Australians (32 page pdf, 2.3 MB)
- 2003-04 Making Science Fun and Relevant for Everyone (32 page pdf, 2 MB)
- 2002-03 Inspiring Innovation in Young Australians (15 page pdf, 2.0 MB)
- 2001-02 Making Science Fun and Relevant for Everyone (28 page pdf, 1.6 MB)
- 2000-01 Annual Report (104 page pdf, 395 kB)
- 1999-2000 Annual Report (96 pages, 352 kB)
Questacon and Japan: Building the future through cooperation (42 page pdf, 8.8 MB). The Japanese Government and business community contributed half of the cost of building Questacon, and to many projects since then. This book is a celebration of almost 20 years of co-operation.
Questacon Science Play booklet (36 page pdf, 6 MB). Questacon Science Play is interactive science for toddlers and pre-schoolers! This booklet has lots of ideas for fun science activities to try at home with young children.
The Science of Success (16 page pdf, 2.3 MB). An advocacy document profiling some of the graduates of the Shell Questacon Science Circus program.
Making a Difference (44 page pdf, 3.1MB). This book details the story of the origins of the Shell Questacon Science Circus, as well as some of the impact the program has made in the communities it has visited.