Get Wild About Wetlands October Holiday Program Report Every school holiday season, there are heaps of interesting and fun Get Wild About Wetlands activities happening at the Centre to keep the kids busy and give the parents a rest too.…
Understanding the Language of Weeds
An update from our partner Sue Dempster of Western Wildflower Gardens.
Flora in Focus – Bull Banksia
Kambarang Bloomer Bull Banksia Banksia Grandis, commonly known as bull banksia or giant banksia, is a species of a common yet distinctive tree local to the southwest of Western Australia. The Nyungar people know the tree as beera, biara, boongura,…
Turtle Talk
Felicity Bairstow shares insights about our South Western Snake-Necked Turtles
News Buzz
News Buzz Djilba Season (August – September 2022) Centre for Stories’ Micro-Excursion Centre for Stories (Northbridge) had a micro-excursion to our Centre this June. The excursion included nine young adults who were given a tour of the precinct and the…
Poetry CornerPaperbark gossip by Jaya Penelope
paperbark gossip embrace me in your innumerable arms paperbark & lift me from earth’s shadow bring your shaggy mouths to the whorl of my ear whisper some paperbark talk lean in & comb my hair with your twiggy fingers twine…
Awards and AccoladesCentre champions win big!
Nandi Chinna Award-winning Poet won the Premier’s 2022 Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship We are immensely proud to see someone closely associated with the Centre win an incredible honour. At the 2021 WA Premier’s Book Awards held on 17th June at…
Come Get Wild About WetlandsMakuru Season 2022
Get Wild About Wetlands July Holiday Program Report Last July, the Centre saw a host of activities and engagements with the Get Wild About Wetlands (GWAW) school holiday program underway. These programs are always exciting and fun, but, above all,…
Flora in Focus – Bookleaf Mallee
Gorgeous gums Bookleaf Mallee Eucalyptus krueseana, commonly known as Bookleaf Mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to inland Western Australia. It has a crown of sessile, juvenile leaves, glaucous flower buds, creamy yellow flowers, and smooth bark that is…
Get Wild About Wetlands
Get Wild About Wetlands New and exciting programs coming to these July holidays in 2022. BOOK NOW Nature Storytime Trek We’ll be reading stories from the Cockburn Libraries featuring WA animals and then go for a trek in the bushlands…