Blacktown
As public school enrolments fall, boys’ schools are bucking the trend
Hirsh Modi is one of hundreds of additional boys headed for single-sex schooling this year.
- Christopher Harris
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‘You all think you’re such gangsters’: Magistrate slams Bondi dial-a-dealer
The magistrate savaged the western Sydney teenager, saying “we’re sick” of dealers coming to the eastern suburbs with their encrypted phones.
- Amber Schultz
Blacktown City Council: What your candidates said
Blacktown has five wards, with voters in each ward selecting three councillors.
The unexpected Sydney project in the hunt for a world architecture prize
Of the Australian-designed projects on the shortlist for a prestigious global prize, one is not usually known for architectural greatness.
- Julie Power
Lawyer charged with smuggling drug-filled balloons into Sydney prison
The solicitor allegedly concealed cocaine, methamphetamine, buprenorphine and tobacco inside six balloons.
- Sally Rawsthorne
- Analysis
- Architecture
‘The forgotten bits of Sydney’: Our newest sports hub is one out of the box
Blacktown’s city architect Bill Tsakalos says Sydney’s west has been neglected by architects. Not any more.
- Julie Power
With nerves of steel, the couple who joust together, stay together
A mutual passion for horses and medieval sports led couple Rodney and Liberty Deaman to the perfect, albeit unusual, shared hobby.
- Carolyn Webb
Sydney suburbs with the most distressed property sales
One in eight home sellers in the hardest-hit pocket of Sydney are motivated to get a deal done urgently as interest rates stay high.
- Elizabeth Redman and Alexandra Middleton
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- Sydney councils
Mayor of Sydney’s biggest council dies on flight home from China
Tony Bleasdale, a Labor Party veteran, was returning from a delegation to cities in South Korea and China when he died. He was 77.
- Michael Koziol
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