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My background was originally in communications and marketing, and then creating large
international projects and programs like Clean Up The World—working out how to put
those projects together. A lot of my experience dovetails into what I’m doing today at the
Australian Museum. Apart from being the first museum in Australia, we have a Science
Research Institute and a world leading DNA wildlife genomics laboratory. DNA gives
us new insights into specimens in our collection—more than 18.5 million specimens
and objects—and it’s DNA which tells us more about extinct species, more about what’s
happened through the impacts of climate change in Australia.
Kim McKay
Photographer Brendan Vella, 2018
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