Perth Cultural Centre
Reclaimed lakebed turned arts precinct, with galleries, theatres and a recreated Noongar wetland.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Perth Cultural Centre in Northbridge follows Fanny Balbuk, a Whadjuk Noongar woman born in eighteen forty who walked the same track across a wetland colonists called Lake Kingsford. It traces how she and other women gathered food there, and how she reacted when settlers fenced and drained the lake to build streets around it. Along the way it touches the older Noongar name for the site, Gooloogoolup, and the serpent spirit said to have shaped these waterways.
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