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Aaron Patrick

No more homes, no cafe, no fun. Meet Sydney’s killjoy suburb

A council’s refusal to allow development in inner-city Sydney explains why Australian housing is so expensive.

For almost a decade, Charlie Colosi has tried to turn an abandoned colonial-era asylum into a thriving restaurant that would breathe life into a dull corner of privileged Sydney.

For much of the time, Hunters Hill Council has resisted him.

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Aaron Patrick was a senior correspondent at The Australian Financial Review.

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