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Copacabana is the platonic ideal of egalitarian Australia.

The PM bought a house here. I can understand why

Copacabana is the Platonic ideal of egalitarian Australia. No one cares who you are.

  • Ben Groundwater

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Rain, wind and a big swell, Bondi Beach. March 30, 2025. Photo Edwina Pickles SMH

Search for man missing in floodwaters as severe weather hits Sydney

Rescuers are searching for a man whose car was swept away west of Taree as authorities say some communities could be trapped by floodwater for six weeks.

  • Clare Sibthorpe and Angus Dalton
Richmond’s Noah Balta.

AFL star, assault victim settle civil case the day after graphic footage aired in court

Richmond Tigers star Noah Balta settled a case with Thomas Washbrook after a NSW court was shown CCTV footage of the premiership player’s sickening attack.

  • Danny Russell and Jake Niall
Logging operations earlier this month inside the proposed Great Koala National Park.

Dramatic footage shows logging inside proposed koala park

The Minns government’s key environmental promise was the Great Koala National Park. Two years after the election, government loggers are still cutting down trees in the area.

  • Nick O'Malley
Lismore mayor Steve Krieg standing near a flooded Wilsons River on March 11, 2025.

Can building houses better drive down insurance premiums?

With the intensity and frequency of natural disasters on the rise, planning experts and the insurance industry is having to rethink where and how we build our homes.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Waterloo Metro Station: great transport hub, shame about the lack of commuters living nearby.

The Sydney housing solution that’s hiding in plain sight

Before the state government spends billions of dollars buying other people’s land, they should commit to building more housing on land it already owns.

  • Lucy Hughes Turnbull
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Sita Sargeant will soon be running walking tours in Sydney and Melbourne that highlight women’s place in history.

The women who shaped Sydney history and changed Sita Sargeant’s life

A canny publican who used a legal loophole to vote inspired a new book and walking tours to showcase notable women in history.

  • Julie Power
Australia’s most expensive public artwork, Ouroboros by Lindy Lee.

Canberra’s newest (and priciest) attraction stops traffic, literally

Out of the corner of my eye, a car mounts the kerb, hazard lights flashing as its occupants stop to take snaps. Ouroboros is a social media star.

  • Sheriden Rhodes
Liz McLeod, care co-ordinator at the Friends of the Koala rehabilitation centre, with Troppo, a 10-month-old joey found at the base of a tree.

Alfred knocked koalas out of trees and swept a kangaroo into a drain

Wildlife rescue groups have reported an influx of injured native fauna and are planning a search-and-rescue mission for koalas across forests in northern NSW.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Rod Jackson, owner of Woodhouse Denim, in his empty Lismore store. Rod removed all his stock due to the floods.

Lismore prepared for the worst. Now boxes are being unpacked as life returns to normal

For days, business owners in Lismore worked desperately to prepare for flooding they feared could transport the town back to the devastation of 2022.

  • Riley Walter and Penry Buckley

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