Presented with the chance to move to Sydney in 1994,Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix thought:“Why would you not do that?”
We wanted to show just how far we had come and make a statement of strength about where we are going.
Just about every cracking journalism story – from politics to football – usually starts with loose lips spilling the beans on something someone powerful doesn’t want you to know.
I thought that if I stayed in Sydney I would never be a great writer. But I have discovered there is no place like home.
In 1973 our artists had begun establishing an Australian identity. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the world gasped at our Opera House.
A cast of convicts performed Australia’s first play at Sydney Cove in 1789. But by the end of the 19th century the heart of entertainment was in the home.
While Melbourne claims to be the centre of the sporting world,Sydney has shaped Australian sport. And the Herald has been there to cover it all.
If the Sydney Morning Herald is 190,then I’ve been writing for it for a fifth of its life.
The work of six Indigenous female artists will grace the sails of the Sydney Opera House tonight,which will be illuminated for the first time tonight since the pandemic began.
Editor Lisa Davies celebrated the Herald’s contribution to the national debate over almost two centuries and “our unwavering commitment to pursuing the stories that matter to our readers”.
The Sydney Morning Herald played a huge part in the story of our international icon,the Sydney Opera House.