Perth Voice Interactive

JAZZ is still cool, with hundreds rocking up to Hyde Park for the annual Jazz Picnic in the Park over the weekend. The New Orleans-style parade and jam capped off the city-centric portion of the 2023 Perth International Jazz Festival, so you’ll have to head to the South-West for any more jazz shows like the November 12 “Jazz in the Caves” gig at Ngilgi Cave.

MORE trees will have to be removed from Hyde Park due to the spread of the polyphagous shothole borer, with two infested trees on the western side of the lake to be removed this week. The exotic beetle bores into trees to create elaborate fungus farms for food, often killing the tree. The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has called in arborists to remove the severely damaged trees and will prune several others. There’ll also be more chemical treatment of Plane Trees around the lakes in hopes of staving off the borer’s advance. The beetle is especially attracted to the kind of “amenity” imported trees planted in parks throughout the 1900s, and has gotten stuck into prominent plane trees and towering figs in eight parks around Vincent so far. Since being spotted in East Fremantle in 2021, it’s spread to 25 different council areas.