Heritage
The woman who fell in love with a ghost town
The remarkable conservationist, photographer and writer described herself as “a little old woman living in the middle of nowhere”.
- by Malcolm Brown
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Forestry
WA’s most iconic heritage places to be repaired with overseas wood
The WA Heritage Council has described the lack of WA-grown hardwood as a significant issue for large-scale heritage projects.
- by Hamish Hastie
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The unassuming Glebe terrace which was an ‘oasis’ for thousands
Australia’s first women’s refuge has been added to the state heritage register.
- by Michael Koziol
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City life
Sydney museum director had to be carried from office in his chair
The day Gerard Krefft was removed from the Australian Museum for his radical views on evolutions, God and science.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Acts of kindness as Chinese temple gutted by fire starts long rebuild
Volunteers working on South Melbourne’s See Yup Temple hope to restore it to its former glory after an electrical fire ripped through it during Chinese New Year.
- by Broede Carmody
Historic Freo tree faces axe as council backflips on protection – again
A prominent Moreton Bay fig is again in danger with the state’s most famously progressive council taking the 140-year-old beauty off its significant tree register.
- by Mark Naglazas and Emma Young
Meet the man trying to bring back Sydney’s verandahs
There’s an awning gap between the wide shady spaces of the streets of the past and cities we live in today. James Cottam wants them back.
- by Julie Power
Late architect Guilford Bell knew how to draw a crowd … and the money
Bell’s Hallows House in Toorak exemplifies the interest in well-preserved period homes that – like art – come with provenance.
- by Stephen Crafti
The hidden messages in the graffiti on the cliffs of North Head
The Chinese characters painted on the rock above Sydney Harbour are slowly fading from view.
- by Catherine Naylor
A state-owned heritage house sits empty and derelict. Kew locals want something done
Lumeah is a brick Federation villa built in 1894 and now targeted by vandals amid a long-running stand-off over whether it can become a turning lane for traffic.
- by Tom Cowie
Convict-era wall unearthed in Brisbane to feature at North Quay
The stone wall discovered under Adelaide Street in 2022 will now feature in landscaping at North Quay.
- by Tony Moore
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