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• Swing time: playgrounds at their most artful – in pictures

  15-02-2025 18:00
  
  “Play and art have a lot more in common than we might think,” writes Emmy Watts, author of a new book highlighting more than 80 brilliantly imaginative play areas around the world, some of them designed by notable artists including Niki de Saint Phalle and Yayoi Kusama. Too often, playgrounds are orderly, enclosed spaces with identikit slides, swings and climbing frames. In The Art of Play, Watts celebrates examples – rocks on wheels in Melbourne, a sprawling multi-level hammoc
  
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• Buying or building a home in Australia? Here are the energy efficiency features worth paying for | Peter Mares

  15-02-2025 00:00
  
  As climate change makes heatwaves more dangerous, here’s how homeowners can mitigate extreme heatChange by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected] the summer sun hits the west-facing windows of our 20th floor apartment in Melbourne, my resistance to switching on the air-con soon wilts.This generally happens
  
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