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.

Kylie Holly
Questacon PR & Outreach Promotions Manager

E-mail: kholly@questacon.edu.au
Phone: 02 6126 2216 or 0439 399 912

Media Releases | Fact Sheets | Publications

Media Releases

Our media releases are available as PDF files. You may need to download PDF reader software to view or print them.

Our media releases are also available as an automatic RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed for notification via news aggregators like Sage for the Firefox browser. Apple's Safari browser supports RSS XML feeds natively. These programs are available for free, for both Mac and PC. Subscribe to the media release feed.

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

Fact Sheets

Our fact sheets are available as PDF files. You may need to download PDF reader software to view or print them.

• Achievements
• Eaten Alive
• History
• Overview
• Questacon Imagination Factory
• Questacon Measure Island
• Questacon Science Play
• Questacon Science Squad
• Questacon Smart Moves
• Questacon Smart Moves Invention Convention
• Shell Questacon Science Circus
• Tenix Questacon Maths Squad

Publications

Questacon's recent reports and booklets are available as PDF files, below. You may need to download PDF reader software to view or print them. Alternately, a printed copy can be mailed out to you. Contact details are at the top of the page.

• Each financial year, we summarise Questacon's activities across Australia and around the world.
  
  
  • 2007-2008 Balancing Continuity and Change (50 page pdf, 4.6 MB)
  • 2006-2007 Looking to the Future (62 page pdf, 4.6 MB)
  • 2005-2006 A Year of High Energy and Achievement (60 page pdf, 4.5 MB)
  • 2004-2005 Inspiring Innovation in Young Australians (32 page pdf, 2.3 MB)
  • 2003-2004 Making Science Fun and Relevant for Everyone (32 page pdf, 2 MB)
  • 2002-2003 Inspiring Innovation in Young Australians (15 page pdf, 2.0 MB)
  • 2001-2002 Making Science Fun and Relevant for Everyone (28 page pdf, 1.6 MB)
  • 2000-2001 Annual Report (104 page pdf, 395 kB)
  • 1999-2000 Annual Report (96 pages, 352 kB)
  Financial reports from 2007 will be incorporated into DIISR's Annual Report. Financial reports from 2001 were incorporated into DEST's Annual Report.
• 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.