Rome’s arches have stood for 2000 years. But in Sydney’s Italian Forum, they’re crumbling

 The marble arches of Rome’s Forum have stood for 2000 years. In Sydney’s version, the arches around the Leichhardt piazza are polystyrene and they are already crumbling.

But Leichhardt’s Forum does share some things with its Italian namesake: intrigue, political machinations and an almost gladiatorial taste for infighting.

The polystyrene arches, found to be a fire hazard and now partially removed, are the latest flashpoint in a long-running turf war between some of the forum’s commercial operators, factions among the forum’s residents, and an Italian-Australian charity that owns the theatre and cultural centre at the heart of the complex.

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