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Eriko Takefuji
Local ResidentEriko at a Chado Workshop at Mitcham Community Centre in 2025
As a dedicated instructor of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony (Chado), one of Japan’s oldest and largest tea traditions, I also conducts workshops introducing the art and spirit of Chado to Australian audiences.
Across my work in traditional crafts, landscape design and tea ceremony, I am passionate about sharing the richness of Japanese culture and the essence of Japanese aesthetics with people in Australia.
TAKEFUJI
While the online boutique is the heart of TAKEFUJI, Eriko also participates in Japanese cultural events and markets held in Adelaide, creating opportunities for people to discover and experience the richness of Japanese craftsmanship.
Launched in 2026, TAKEFUJI LAWLER is a landscape design practice that explores how Japanese aesthetics can be expressed within the unique natural environment of Australia. Working alongside her husband Richard, whose background is in architectural design, TAKEFUJI LAWLER aims to create gardens that are not confined to the traditional Japanese garden style, but instead draw on the essence of Japanese aesthetics to create spaces that respond to both people and nature.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Quairading
🏛️ Noel Padgham-Purich
Noel Padgham-Purich was born at Quairading on Christmas Day in 1927. Trained in agricultural science, she raised six children and farmed before becoming involved in Northern Territory politics. Dissatisfaction with bureaucracy after Cyclone Tracy helped draw her into public life, and she entered the Territory Legislative Assembly in 1977. Her parliamentary career extended for about twenty years. Quairading’s association is her birthplace, while the farming and political work that brought her wider recognition belonged chiefly to the Territory. The move from agricultural training and family responsibilities into elected office gives that birthplace a connection with an unusually varied public career.
🏛️ Alan Ridge
Alan Ridge worked in Quairading local government during the late 1950s before moving into further administrative work in the Kimberley. He later represented Kimberley in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1968 to 1980 and held ministerial responsibilities including lands, health and housing. The Quairading years belong to the beginning of his public-service career, when the work concerned local administration rather than parliamentary debate. That experience supplies the specific district connection, preceding the northern electorate and state portfolios through which he became more widely known. His career links the everyday operation of a Wheatbelt authority with later decisions affecting communities across Western Australia.
