Bee Safe with Team BEAP
THE students and principal of Parkmore Primary School tell us about an exciting environmental project the students are working on: BEAP – Bee Education and Protection Project. They are hoping to represent Australia at the […]
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A Blooming Success Returns to Burwood
FOR those with a passion for plants, Gardener’s Day Out is an unmissable event! Hosted by the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria (RHSV), this highly anticipated event promises to bring together seasoned professionals, devoted plant […]
Walking Football 4 Health Victoria
WALKING Football Burwood, in conjunction with the assistance of Eastern Lions Soccer Club, commenced in February 2023 as a small group playing every Tuesday. The game provides a social and mental outlet for those who […]
Ashburton Stories
ASHBURTON’S history is like no other suburb in Boroondara. Yet it barely rates a footnote in the area’s history books. In my new book, Ashburton Stories: A History of the Melbourne Suburb I sought to […]
PLANTS OF OUR SUBURBS AND HILLS
I have not included Toorak, which name “may have come from Aboriginal words of similar pronunciation, meaning black crow or reedy swamp.” I have also not included Malvern, although one source suggests it is the […]
100 Years of Broadcast Radio
AUSTRALIANS watched many countries start radio broadcasts, though we were not idle, with many amateur experimenters and large companies like AWA running test broadcasts. Early development Australia’s world-renowned opera singer Dame Nellie Melba gave her […]
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
It turns that all the classical music that you’ve heard is most likely inauthentic. Anna Cheung discovers that the Young Mannheim Symphony is teaching budding classical musicians how to play authentically. WHILE for many of […]
