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Liverpool Civic Place will have five-star Green Star status
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Cancel Battling weeds is a war of attrition and we have to use every weapon in our arsenal.
That s Alexi Gilchrist s call to arms against every gardener s nightmare weeds.
Mr Gilchrist is the restoration ecologist at Liverpool City Council in Sydney s south-west.
He was tasked with reducing the weed infestations at Wattle Grove Lake, an artificial water hole in the small suburb of Wattle Grove.
Controversy over the use of herbicides to kill weeds has grown around the world in recent years, with health and environmental concerns prompting a push for chemical-free alternatives.
The concerns prompted the local council to trial the use of sugar as an eco-friendly alternative to keep weeds at bay.
Green Valley s social housing experiment still being fixed 60 years later
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The 1961 turning of the sod lay the foundation for the new south-west Sydney suburb of Green Valley.
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Green Valley was built under unusual circumstances 60 years ago. Walk through some parts of it today and you ll be able to spot remnants of that bygone era.
The south-west suburb was developed by the NSW Housing Commission during the affordable housing crisis in the 1960, on farming land at the fringes of Sydney s suburban sprawl.
Some of the families moved out of the inner city in the 1960s were given units at Green Valley.
ABC to establish pop-up newsroom in Liverpool
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