by Jacqueline Lang | Jul 18, 2017 | Editoral, Environment, Places, Soapbox
Walking around Lake Claremont this week, eyeing the black swans, swamp hens, ducks, stilts and feathered beauties, we paused to watch a group of corellas – white cockatoos – fly in to alight, en masse, on a tree. The birds were having fun:...
by Jacqueline Lang | Jun 27, 2017 | Arts, Beauty, Environment, Lifestyle, People, Places, Visual, Wellbeing
Who knew that a tree covered in crochet knitting could look so splendid? But hundreds of multi-coloured wool mandalas from across WA and around the globe are lighting up the once-blackened trees in our south-west. The mandalas – spiritual...
by Peter Rigby | Jun 27, 2017 | Environment, Gardens, Lifestyle, Places, Travel
The Crow-eaters can be a pretty cagey bunch when it comes to showing off their fine state. Either that, or they don’t know what they’ve got sitting down there on the unspoiled underbelly of this vast land. Personally, I’m convinced they like to...
by Jacqueline Lang | May 21, 2017 | Environment, Expert Advice, Lifestyle, People, Places
Lynn MacLaren, the first American to have had a seat in the WA Parliament, is giving politics a rest; for now at least. It’s time to have a honeymoon! In her eight years with the Greens, she’s saved precious wild numbats, helped protect the...
by Rachel Lovelock | May 2, 2017 | Environment, Lifestyle, Our History, Places, Travel
The fabled Banda Islands in Maluku, Indonesia, are so far off the tourism map that few people know of either their existence or their major historical importance. The world’s only source of nutmeg in the Middle Ages, these islands shaped the history of the East...
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