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The NSW government has released an indicative masterplan to rezone the Parramatta North precinct. 

There are plans to build 2500 homes in Parramatta. The council wants more offices

More homes or more offices? Plans to redevelop Parramatta North have riled heritage advocates, a Labor MP and, most recently, the local council.

  • Megan Gorrey

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The Allan government’s new planning rules have been nicknamed “the toastie”.

How a ham and cheese toastie could upend the state’s planning laws

The Victorian government insists its changes to planning laws won’t change heritage overlays. This is partly true. It’s also disingenuous.

  • Chip Le Grand
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church financial council secretary Noel Sweeney said the parish couldn’t afford the $700,000 renovation required to make heritage protected buildings on church grounds usable again.

Asbestos, termites and red tape: Church battles to demolish heritage-listed hall

A Brisbane church has asked the city council for clearance to demolish the historic hall, which it can’t afford to repair.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Ningaloo bleaching February 2025.

‘Like an underwater bushfire:’ Shocking images as heatwave bleaches Ningaloo

Advocates are calling this a “red alert” moment for the usually resilient reef, as a marine heatwave already linked to a fish kill and cyclone intensification moves south.

  • Emma Young
Annette Pitman’s Griffin-designed home on show.

New museum head puts on a stunning exhibition: her own Sydney home

A 49-square-metre home by US architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin will be open to the public to celebrate the contribution of female architects.

  • Julie Power
Dr Wayne Johnson, archaeologist with the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, at the renovated terraces.

How a clever reno restored this Sydney heritage spot to its former glory

Families were living in a ramshackle laneway up from the harbour’s edge for hundreds of years. Now the old terraces have a new lease on life.

  • Sue Williams
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Gulliver’s gas wells on the shores of King Sound.

They came, they drilled, they left: Fears over Kimberley gas wells as explorer bows out

Dangerous and damaged oil and gas infrastructure has been left in WA’s north. Now it’s for sale – cheap, with free double pluggers thrown in.

  • Emma Young
Ruins of the Garfield Water Wheel in Chewton, Victoria

Victoria’s Goldfields fast-tracked in bid for World Heritage status

The long campaign to recognise the area shaped by Victoria’s gold rush has just had a significant victory.

  • Mike Foley
An artist’s impression of the proposed Parramatta North rezoning, with Parramatta’s fast-growing CBD in the background.

There’s a plan for 2500 new homes in Parramatta. Heritage advocates say it can wait

Heritage advocates want to wait four more years to finalise plans. Tasked with fixing the housing crisis, the state government says that doesn’t make sense.

  • Megan Gorrey
Sandy Bowen (left), Juanita Fernando, Bruce McLeod, Steven Fernando and Rob Lawry at one of the Werribee South sheds.

No sand, swimming or running water: The modest bayside beach sheds with a quiet cult following

They survived a campaign for their demolition in 1967, and today there are more sheds on the western side of Port Phillip Bay than in some council areas on the eastern shore.

  • Adam Carey

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