Blankets of colour: Western Australia’s wildflower season bursts to life – in pictures

On Wajarri Yamaji country in WA’s remote mid-west sits Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. This year, early winter rains have left the telescopes surrounded by a carpet of splendid native bloomsLarge fields of wildflowers spread across the observatory landscape, right up to the radio telescopes. Less than 0.2% of the observatory site has been disturbed for radio astronomy infrastructure. Photograph: Red Empire Media/CSIROSun 13 Sep 2026 11.00 EDTShare