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Off limits for 44 years, Perth’s historic power plant erupts with a new kind of energy
A mudlark is foraging in the grass beneath the imposing brutalist facade of the East Perth Power Station, unbothered by the clamour of staging being set up around it. The afternoon south-westerly rattles the crowns of eucalypts on the riverbank, their …