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Advertisement When Sue Course looked out on what is now Darebin Parklands in 1973, she saw a wasteland â a tip that was earmarked for a freeway. She was appalled that some of the remaining trees along Darebin Creek were being bulldozed. It inspired her, her husband Laurie and other locals to form a residentsâ group. Their decades of lobbying politicians to give the land to the public â and their hard labour removing weeds and rubbish and planting trees â was the basis of todayâs 33-hectare urban oasis in Alphington, in Melbourneâs north-east. Urban oasis: Sue Course receives an OAM for her work creating Darebin Parklands. ....