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The February 22 Edition

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‘Queen of woke’, ‘fun police’: How Clover Moore has outlasted nastiness – and six PMs

There have been many responses to the Sydney Lord Mayor over her two decades at the helm. She’s also been called the most successful female politician in Australian history.

  • Jane Cadzow
An artist’s impression of the future Town Hall Square.

This Sydney public square has been promised for 30 years. The council wants to get a move on

Why pay to maintain buildings you’re going to demolish anyway? Clover Moore says the council should start work on a long-mooted civic square in Sydney’s CBD.

  • Megan Gorrey
Circular Quay skyline

Circular Quay should be Sydney’s crown jewel. Instead, $170m has been spent on nothing

For all the ideas, plans, reports, artists’ impressions, concepts and competitions, nothing ever seems to get done to transform Circular Quay.

  • The Herald's View
A render of the approved redevelopment of the former T2 building at Taylor Square.

It was a bank, a nightclub and a failed bike hub. Now this Oxford Street icon has a new fate

A Taylor Square landmark that has sat dormant for more than 15 years is set for a new lease on life after plans were approved to add three storeys and a rooftop, and transform the basement into a live music venue.

  • Michael Koziol
The golfing sector wants to repurpose parts of the course for a myriad of sports and recreational facilities.

Golfers pitch to turn Moore Park course into ‘world-class’ recreation hub

The state government wants to halve the 18-hole course for a new park. Players have an alternative plan they’re touting as a win-win for the sport and locals.

  • Megan Gorrey
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History worth reviving: the tram on Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, in 1946 and Venice’s famed bell tower, the Campanile of St Mark, which collapsed in 1902 but was rebuilt by 1912.

Sydney’s surprise resemblance to Venice has a lesson for us all

Venice’s brutal modernisers did not want to rebuild their collapsed bell tower. The city persevered, as should Sydney with its long-lost people movers, the trams.

  • Antone Martinho-Truswell
Zann Maxwell.

Art of the Deal: Clover Moore appoints Labor rival as deputy mayor

Despite some sharp criticism of rival mayoral candidates, Sydney’s veteran Lord Mayor has cut a deal that will make Labor’s Zann Maxwell her deputy.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
School hats and blazers

Public-private school divide against national spirit

If our politicians were required to send their offspring to state schools, there would be a dramatic change in funding.

Clover Moore celebrates her victory on Saturday night.

Six-leaf Clover and the lads who had no clue about local democracy

It can be a disturbing lesson on the state of the nation while queuing to vote in council elections.

  • Jenna Price

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