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Herald turns 190

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Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix at Beppi’s.

Oyster saloons, pub Thai and white wine in the sun: 190 years of Sydney dining

Presented with the chance to move to Sydney in 1994, Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix thought: “Why would you not do that?” 

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Chief digital and publishing officer Chris Janz and Herald editor Lisa Davies.

A week to remember

We wanted to show just how far we had come and make a statement of strength about where we are going.

  • Lisa Davies
Columnist Andrew Hornery and Maria Venuti

Scandals and scoops: How gossip columns have changed our city

Just about every cracking journalism story – from politics to football – usually starts with loose lips spilling the beans on something someone powerful doesn’t want you to know.

  • Andrew Hornery
Jessie Tu: “I need to get out of this bubble of cultural void!” I whined to friends.

When a room of one’s own turns out to be in Redfern. Not New York

I thought that if I stayed in Sydney I would never be a great writer. But I have discovered there is no place like home.

  • Jessie Tu
Not supplicants needing validation: Russell Crowe, Judy Davis, Nicole Kidman, winners at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards

Don’t look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture

In 1973 our artists had begun establishing an Australian identity. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the world gasped at our Opera House.

  • Anne Summers
Dame Nellie Melba in 1905

How we moved from convict brutality to songs around the piano

A cast of convicts performed Australia’s first play at Sydney Cove in 1789. But by the end of the 19th century the heart of entertainment was in the home.

  • Thomas Keneally
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Don Bradman Cathy Freeman

‘What can you expect from the sons of convicts?’ The rise of Australian sport

While Melbourne claims to be the centre of the sporting world, Sydney has shaped Australian sport. And the Herald has been there to cover it all.

  • Malcolm Knox
Richard Glover in 1983.

Locked stationery cupboards and other memories of the relatively recent past

If the Sydney Morning Herald is 190, then I’ve been writing for it for a fifth of its life.

  • Richard Glover
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‘Dolly visits Indulkana’, a finalist in the 2020 Archibald Prize.

How an artist with a dream brought Dolly Parton - or her likeness - to the Opera House

The work of six Indigenous female artists will grace the sails of the Sydney Opera House tonight, which will be illuminated for the first time tonight since the pandemic began.

  • Helen Pitt
Composite - SMH 190th Birthday celebration at the Sydney Opera House. John Howard and Andrew Abdo. 22nd April 2021. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SMH SMH 190th Birthday celebration at the Sydney Opera House.  CEO nine entertainment co mike sneesby with chef Matt Moran. 22nd April 2021. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SMH SMH 190th Birthday celebration at the Sydney Opera House. Gladys Berejiklian.  22nd April 2021. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SMH

Sydney celebrates 190 years of the Herald

Editor Lisa Davies celebrated the Herald’s contribution to the national debate over almost two centuries and “our unwavering commitment to pursuing the stories that matter to our readers”.

  • Samantha Hutchinson, Zoe Samios and Stephen Brook

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