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An artist’s impression of the proposed Parramatta North rezoning, with Parramatta’s fast-growing CBD in the background.

There’s a plan for 2500 new homes in Parramatta. Heritage advocates say it can wait

Heritage advocates want to wait four more years to finalise plans. Tasked with fixing the housing crisis, the state government says that doesn’t make sense.

  • Megan Gorrey

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Sandy Bowen (left), Juanita Fernando, Bruce McLeod, Steven Fernando and Rob Lawry at one of the Werribee South sheds.

No sand, swimming or running water: The modest bayside beach sheds with a quiet cult following

They survived a campaign for their demolition in 1967, and today there are more sheds on the western side of Port Phillip Bay than in some council areas on the eastern shore.

  • Adam Carey

Congrats Sydney, you just bulldozed your own legacy

AC/DC are the biggest thing ever to come out of Australia. So why did we just flatten their childhood home?

  • Tom Compagnoni
The abandoned Pinkenba State School in Brisbane.

Pickleball plan for historic Brisbane school site on brink of ruin

Seventeen years after the last students left, the heritage-listed but decrepit Pinkenba State School site could be transformed into a racquet sport centre.

  • Sean Parnell
The Olympia Milk Bar in Stanmore, as pictured in a concept image by SRH Architecture, and in Google images in 2018 and 2023.

Nod to nostalgia: Plans to restore Sydney’s historic Olympia milk bar

A million-dollar project includes an upmarket new residence and repairs to the heritage-listed shopfront.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Hugo Weaving on the Palace Hotel balcony in 1993.

The town that grew ‘on the back of a group of drag queens’

The spiritual home of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and the shearing shed that inspired Banjo Paterson’s Flash Jack have been lauded in NSW’s heritage register.

  • Julie Power
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The former Russell’s Old Corner Shop, built in 1850 and sold in 2021 to an investor for $1.8 million. His promise to restore it has come to nothing so far.

‘Demolition by neglect’: This 174-year-old building is supposed to be restored. So far, nothing has been done.

A historic Melbourne building is deteriorating, with its owner yet to face penalties. Experts warn gaps in heritage laws leave history at risk of demolition.

  • Clay Lucas
The Gateway and Gemini buildings in Potts Point, and Roslyn Gardens in Rushcutters Bay, are under consideration for heritage listing.

‘Not a museum’: The Sydney apartment owners fighting heritage protection

A council wants to preserve nine boxy brick buildings from the 1950s and 60s. But some residents aren’t happy.

  • Megan Gorrey
Stokesay Court, Ludlow, Shropshire, where the movie, Atonement, was filmed.

‘I was in shock for a week after being told I’d inherited an 88-room mansion’

At age 40, Caroline Magnus was bequeathed the country estate where Atonement was filmed.

  • Eleanor Doughty
Macron and Trump.

‘Bells of Notre Dame ring again’: Trump joins world leaders for cathedral’s grand reopening

France says “merci” as Notre Dame, one of the world’s most recognised monuments, reopens five years after fire devoured its roof.

  • Rob Harris

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