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A pair of rare owls have singlehandedly slammed the brakes on plans for a multimillion-dollar redevelopment of a Sydney high school.
Construction plans for a $153 million facelift of Chatswood High School in Sydney s lower North Shore were sent back to the drawing board after concerns were raised of the impact on two threatened owls.
The Education Department pledged to preserve the large Angophora Costata tree, the chosen nesting ground of the powerful owls - a breed of the nocturnal birds.
A pair of rare Powerful Owls have singlehandedly slammed the brakes on plans for a multimillion redevelopment of Chatswood High School (pictured)
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Strange fruits bloom in Chloe Wilsonâs sardonic short stories
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Chloe Wilsonâs short story
Hold Your Fire is the work of a suave humourist. In this darkly droll story, a weapons engineer must look after her husband, who has become obsessed with fecal transplants, and her son, who is being bullied at school.
Scanning over a single episode from the story reveals some masterful duplicitous satire: the protagonist reads an article in
Munitions Journal about recent market constraints, meaning âthat one war or another had come to an endâ; her husband, Connor, discusses his fecal transplant in encyclopedic detail âduring one of his long, stuttering bouts on our ensuite toiletâ; and the sonâs newfangled school refers to a classroom as an âexperience podâ and sick bay the âwellness centreâ.