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Roth Hetherington Reserve renewed by upskilling asylum seekers (Sydney Morning Herald)

11 February 20150 comments

Australiana was all the rage in the 1970s, when the Springvale City Council hit on the idea of turning a strip of land in Keysborough into a park in which every Australian state was represented by its own garden bed. Just as Australia-map teaspoon racks were fashioned to showcase souvenir spoons from far-flung towns, the Roth Hetherington Reserve was devised to display native flora from around the country.  

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