WA’s most iconic heritage places to be repaired with overseas wood
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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.

  • byHamish Hastie

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The unassuming Glebe terrace which was an ‘oasis’ for thousands

The unassuming Glebe terrace which was an ‘oasis’ for thousands

Australia’s first women’s refuge has been added to the state heritage register.

  • byMichael Koziol
Sydney museum director had to be carried from office in his chair
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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.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
Acts of kindness as Chinese temple gutted by fire starts long rebuild

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.

  • byBroede Carmody
Historic Freo tree faces axe as council backflips on protection – again

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.

  • byMark Naglazas andEmma Young
Meet the man trying to bring back Sydney’s verandahs

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.

  • byJulie Power
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Late architect Guilford Bell knew how to draw a crowd … and the money

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.

  • byStephen Crafti
The hidden messages in the graffiti on the cliffs of North Head

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.

  • byCatherine Naylor
A state-owned heritage house sits empty and derelict. Kew locals want something done

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.

  • byTom Cowie
Convict-era wall unearthed in Brisbane to feature at North Quay

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.

  • byTony Moore
The family secrets Richard learned from his mum’s WWII letters

The family secrets Richard learned from his mum’s WWII letters

Winifred Smith’s letters,now on display at the State Library of NSW,are a rare insight into women’s experience of the war effort.

  • byJulie Power