Crown Street Mall's $430k art project: Palm tree up a pole art work sparks debate

Kate McIlwain
Updated October 27 2017 - 4:59pm, first published 4:19pm
Pole-arising: Crown Street Mall shoppers craned to see the newly unveiled centrepiece of Wollongong council's public art project. Picture: Adam McLean.
Pole-arising: Crown Street Mall shoppers craned to see the newly unveiled centrepiece of Wollongong council's public art project. Picture: Adam McLean.

Necks were craned, heads were scratched and eyes were turned skywards as lunchtime shoppers puzzled over the Cabbage Tree palm being fixed to the top of a metal pole in Crown Street Mall on Friday.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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