Perth Voice Interactive

ALONG with the lamb chops and oi! oi! oi! flag capes, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures will be marked this Australia Day down at Ozone Reserve. The Survival Perth event is at Ozone this year because the usual spot at supreme court gardens is undergoing extensive upgrades to make it nice and shiny for Elizabeth Quay. The concert starts 3pm with a welcome to country and flag-raising and runs through to 7.30pm with musos like Richard Walley, Gina Williams and The Merindas and it’s all free (and alcohol-free) alongside Langley Park where you can also hang to watch the fireworks and laser show at 8pm. January 26 is controversial as it marks the founding of the colony of NSW in 1788, and is known by many as Invasion Day for the deaths and mistreatment that followed.

VOICE photographer Matthew Dwyer spotted some guerilla sculpting down in Leederville, with some arty sort making the best of a dead grass tree and turning it into a three-storeyed artwork. A local tells us the Stamford Street trees were put in by council but despite their hardy nature all four died.