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The Kununurra Historical Society Inc.

The Kununurra Historical Society was inaugurated on June 5th 1986, and in 2021 we commemorated 35 years as a Society and 20 years in the ('new' ;^) purpose-built Archive and Museum facility. You will be supporting the valuable work being accomplished to collect and preserve the records of our past, and be kept in touch with the fascinating history being placed online. Perhaps you have photographs or other archival material you'd like to see preserved in our purpose-built archive facility. 

Please join us at KHS from the Membership Form and KHS (BSB & A/C) Bank Details provided below.

(You will be helping to preserve this history & make it accessible to all! Thanks in Advance! (TIA :^)

 KHS is offering an annual membership, however we encourage ALL Past & Present Residents of Kununurra, being part of (y)our history, to join as Life Members (equal to 10 x an annual membership) to support the work of the Society, continuously receive updates, avoid messy renewals every year (for us & for you ;^) and as the best value for money.

(We forgot to say in this page's title, "Please!" Join KHS Now ;^)


About the KHS Membership Form

The present membership form is now available as an online form above. 

Kununurra Historical Society Inc. - ABN 54 423 759 052

(All Membership subscription costs in this form are inclusive of GST)

The Kununuurra Historical Society Inc.

is a "Deductible Gift Recipient" (DGR :^)

The Kununurra Historical Society is "named" within,  Australian Taxation Office (ATO) legislation, as one of the exclusively "named" organisations within that law.  Yes your organisation may be a DGR (BUT are you named within the legislation?  Like we are? :^)

It makes no difference but what being a DGR means, is that ANY donation to our Society, to further our valuable work,  for you, as the donor, it becomes a fully tax deductible donation (not all donations are!) for any dollar amount (not limited to any amount) that is over two dollars ($2 :^)

Donations do not attract GST and are Fully Tax Deductible

Kununurra Historical Society Inc. is endorsed by the ATO as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR). 

Any donation over $2 is fully tax deductible. A receipt can be issued that confirms this (but not necessary).

Old (copy & paste into an email :^) KHS Membership Form

[OR go to our new Online Form :^]

Please note that all Family Memberships only include "children" as Junior Members (wh do not have any voting rights) up to the age of 18.                            

Direct Deposit to BSB 086-787 A/C 027434052 – Use Surname or Corporate name for your transfer reference.

[Make Online Form for Have You Lived in the Kimberley"?]

[Optional to please provide further information of what it was like when you were here?]

[For a KHS Register of Past Residents]

Have you lived in Kununurra or the Kimberley?

Your Family Name ........................................................................................

Your First Name ............................................................................................

Other Family Members here at the time ....................................................................................................

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Where : .................................................................................................................................................

(Town, station, mission, street etc)

Year(s) : .................................................................................................................................................

[When answering all questions below please try and use dates/years for any events you can recall as much as possible when you write, which will assist KHS and future researchers?]

* What brought you to the Kimberley and what did you do?

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* Memories

[eg. Arrival/First Day - Events or places visited, anything?]

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[Feel free to add categories or Subject headings and add as much as you start recalling?]

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We hope your visit to the Kununurra Museum (run by volunteer members of the Kununurra Historical Society), and this questionnaire bring back some great memories for you. We'd like to encourage you to write more about your time in Kununurra which we can add later to accompany this file. Remember that KHS has a purpose-built archive facility for the preservation of your photographs and documents. Please keep us in mind. You can join KHS to get regular news and information on new archives in monthly KHS minutes. Help support this volunteer community group with the preservation of our local history by joining KHS. If you lived in the East Kimberley - KHS Needs You! Become a Life Member! (Just 10 x the cost of 1 years membership)

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[This Membership Application Form can be filled in and emailed back - Copy and Paste into text editor or an email.]

[Last Updated - with new rates after KHS AGM in March 2012 - This form November 12th 2015 - Again on January 2nd 2016 and most recently on May 15th 2020]

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[Copy Above - Paste into an email to admin@kununurra.org.au]

Your Records of Significance

  Whether you are an individual, family, organization or business, and have records of significance to the history of the Ord, please consider their future preservation, in the Kununurra Historical Society purpose built Archive facility. It is of great importance to preserve Kununurra's history, with an ever transient population, the KHS is actively seeking to collect, original or digital photographic collections, and documents, of significance to this history, from past, present and future residents. However small your collection it may be of significance, for example a photograph may give a new angle on something. KHS aims to preserve and welcome the original photographic prints or slides, films, videos, documents or other objects in collections. These donated records can also be digitised to a high standard (at present 5500 pixels on the long side of an image) and returned as fully documented digital images to the donor on a USB memory stick, SD card (or other existing or as yet un-described storage device of the future ;^) - If archival preservation is not wanted, original collections can be digitised and returned to the donor, if required. If you know of records that should be preserved for the future, please  Contact KHS - ALSO see - Your Kununurra History.

KHS has been actively collecting as indicated by the number of archives collected; in 2016 - 123 new collections ; in 2017 - 114 new collections ; in 2018 - 152 new collections ; 112 new collections in 2019 added and so far in 2020 we have received 48 new collections (to May 15th 2020), which have been added to the KHS archive. An archive or collection could be multiple documents, maps, or 1050 x boxed 35mm slides (as we received in March 2020) or museum objects.


Volunteer for KHS

Would you like to be involved, hands on, in a museum? Do you have an interest in history? Would you enjoy outings to locate, photograph and document historic sites? Have useful skills, or want to learn new skills? Perhaps you have skills to help with, researching; writing up and accessioning archives; photographing our many and varied documents and collections to digitally capture records?  We can train - Easy! Further develop your unique skills, as you go. 

Volunteer for KHS (> Needs You! :^)

  Maybe you have excellent PC skills, or would just like to volunteer some time and learn about the Museum and Archives.

 Perhaps you have knowledge and skills that could greatly assist the work that can be done. 

We soon hope to launch a "crowd-sourced" text correction portal under our own domain, where the publicly, crowd-sourced volunteers from anywhere on the planet (as well as from up and off the planet, from the International Space Station - ISS at least! :^)

KHS is a totally volunteer organization, with a handful of active members and any help you can give, would be very welcome. 

For further information contact us, any time, either at the Kununurra Archives & Museum, Coolibah Drive, Kununurra, where we meet at 3pm on the 1st Tuesday of the month.  Best way to help is to Join  us at KHS as one of our members - Read about the amazing benefits you are eligible to receive - even for an annual, ordinary member!  Read more from the KHS Membership Benefits page.

Also See - KHS Volunteers.

If you cannot volunteer you can still support this work by joining or donating to KHS!

  The membership form is now pasted in above. To use simply hilight the form section, then paste into an email (to admin@kununurra.org.au) or into your text editor/word processor and edit - Send with subject "KHS Membership"

New Members   &  Donations - NEEDED - Join up now!

 Although we do have  around 100 members, most are spread around Australia with about 20 local members, of whom around 5-10 members regularly attend our monthly meetings - It is this local number the main "place" where we need more new members, who can help to keep our Society going strongly and independent of Shire and any other group but collaborating and even starting to provide services for other non-profit groups in Kununurra. 

You would be helping greatly to support the continuation of the important work being carried out by the Kununurra Museum, run by the Kununurra Historical Society (KHS) if you can at least...

Join KHS as a Member with many useful and incredible future services which will be standard for all KHS Members. Read more in the Membership Form in the section about what services you would like to see.  Feel free to fill in the form for those services and when they are connected we can send you an email - With no need to join or send any funds from  the form above - But you will need to go through and add the required fields - Just type Services (instead of answers :^) 

Join KHS

  We would welcome more members as Kununurra has had many more than this live here over the fifty-five+ years of the town, who would be interested in this history, so there is a great potential for new members and we need you to come forward as there are lifetimes of work to do in the archive!


Friends of Kununurra Museum run by KHS

(Philanthropic Crowd Sourced Funding for KHS? :^)

Are you 1 in 1,000 Philanthropists who love the history work at KHS? (to Support future KHS Work :^)  

All annual donations are fully tax deductible as KHS is a DGR with ATO and Registered Charity with ACNC.    For a very modest donation of $50 (less than 14 cents per day - or donate more:^) per year please consider - This is not a membership but an annual pledge of your donation, to support this work to increase and continue into the future.  

You may also wish to additionally join as a KHS Member 

 We hope from what you have seen of KHS online presence to date, that the work massive amount of work being done at KHS is a worthy cause and you would be assisting for this great work to continue and increase.  Are you one of those who loves the history presented here and want to see more and you are doing well, please make your pledge and donate now!   You would be assisting the important work of actively collecting and preserving our history, of local, State and National significance.

 If you can afford to, your donation would be greatly appreciated and help to preserve and build on this dynamic local history research repository.

 You can go to the form above on this page to get KHS BSB & A/C details to donate directly - Please use Ref:  Your Name (Receipt not necessary you can just claim all as FULLY tax deductible) You can keep track of all of your donations at the KHS GiveNow page from >> https://www.givenow.com.au/khs! 

 You can go to our  Membership Form and KHS (BSB & A/C) Bank Details to donate directly or you can keep track of all of your donations at the KHS GiveNow page https://www.givenow.com.au/khs!