Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is a columnist and author. Her latest book is Killing Sydney.
Opinion
Development
We should behold the Cross with reverence yet we build over her charms
Two projects – though by good architects – do not do justice to Kings Cross, one of our most vital neighbourhoods.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Sydney councils
Local democracy is the new black, but need it be so blackened by developers?
Development interests hold too much sway in some councils. Saturday is your chance to vote them out.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Development outrage
The glorification of greed has left Sydney with a vast backlog of misery
With disturbing frequency, apartment buyers weep on our television screens as their slaved-for single asset cracks, leaks and exfoliates in front of them.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Food sustainability
The secret rock that could help feed the world and the ‘nerdy’ Australian scientist who discovered it
They lived on a dirt floor in Vietnam while pursuing their dream to change the world, but now investors are beating a path to the door of Lyndal Hugo and her wife Amanda Cornelissen.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Assange saga
Assange, the movie: his father and brother expose the human behind public enemy No. 1
Was the WikiLeaks founder naive to hold the US to account for war crimes? Let his father answer that question.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Bushfires
Our fear of fire is the very reason we need to fear more black summers
Australia’s future needs to invest in a pre-1788 understanding of land management.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Planning
To pave our parks with gold, put up a parking lot (or convention centre)
The Greater Sydney Parklands Bill presents a clear and present danger to the green spaces bequeathed to the city by our wiser and more generous forbears.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Planning
Long may Oxford Street live (if only we could find her pulse)
Once a creative vein of Sydney, Oxford Street is sick. Perhaps only after her death rites are given will resurrection be possible.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Development
Thousands of homes among their gum trees: the assault on Sydney’s last healthy koalas
The concessions for habitat and corridors offer too little to ensure the future of Sydney’s last chlamydia-free koala population.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Architecture
Perrottet, Trump and their architecture of pie-eyed beauty
NSW’s new Premier, when he was treasurer, did a demolition job on modern architecture, but don’t be distracted - his main focus is plain old demolition.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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Architecture
Dust to dust: projects look to resurrect joy of shared music
One new structure would allow Sydneysiders to sing together again. Another, in the red dirt of western NSW, sees a composer and an architect working together to create something extraordinary.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
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