A Taylor Square landmark that has sat dormant for more than 15 years is set for a new lease on life after plans were approved to add three storeys and a rooftop,and transform the basement into a live music venue.
The state government wants to halve the 18-hole course for a new park. Players have an alternative plan they’re touting as a win-win for the sport and locals.
Venice’s brutal modernisers did not want to rebuild their collapsed bell tower. The city persevered,as should Sydney with its long-lost people movers,the trams.
Despite some sharp criticism of rival mayoral candidates,Sydney’s veteran Lord Mayor has cut a deal that will make Labor’s Zann Maxwell her deputy.
If our politicians were required to send their offspring to state schools,there would be a dramatic change in funding.
It can be a disturbing lesson on the state of the nation while queuing to vote in council elections.
While Clover Moore has conceded this will be her last term as Sydney lord mayor,the council elections have different implications for those at state and federal levels.
It was an unusual election day for many after the Liberal Party state executive failed to nominate in 16 councils. But in Parramatta,it came back resoundingly.
In 45 years of contesting elections,Clover Moore has never lost one – or even looked like losing one. And nothing has changed after Saturday’s local elections.
Millions of voters will determine who controls the state’s 128 local councils on Saturday. Here are some of the crucial power struggles to watch.
Our media has suffered greatly because of the manipulation by powerful overlords with a political axe to grind. Democracy and media independence are continually at risk,and we can only hope that our version of them survives.