Documenting and coaxing the return of the West Melbourne Swamp using rational and irrational means.
The boat tour of the Port of Melbourne was drawing to a close. I approached the tour guide, a retired port worker, to talk with him about the West Melbourne Swamp. "It all used to be marsh land," he told me. Looking at a map of the Port,
While reviewing photographs from my most recent psychogeographic expedition (report to be filed soon) I spotted what appears to be Spider-Man coming to someone's aide. This occured at 2.37pm on Sunday, July 26 at the terraformed mouth of the Moonee Ponds Coal Canal (creek) near Ron Barassi
I made this excursion several months ago, but I wasn't ready to document it until now. The wildlife sanctuary, as it is called on maps, sits wedged between Boral Concrete and the Citywide Resource Recovery Centre & Waste Transfer Station on Dynon Road. It is the most obstinate
Let's begin with an excursion to Arden railway station. I visited Arden with a question at the front of my mind: Where is the north-eastern perimeter of the swamp? I don't believe this can be answered by simply looking at the boundaries of West Melbourne 3003
On 20 February this year, the City of Melbourne announced that the swamp everlasting ( Xerochrysum palustre ) would be the city's new floral emblem. The swamp everlasting's original distribution within the municipality would have been in and around the West Melbourne Swamp. The everlasting swamp. Right now,
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