Heritage
The forgotten and overlooked Sydney art you may be standing on right now
The Melocco brothers painted in stone, and their work turned architecture into art in places nearly every Sydneysider has visited. Look down, or you may miss it.
- Julie Power
Latest
Sydney’s most expensive swamp hits the market
The parcel of empty land will finally be sold off for homes, decades after the army moved out. The council says the move will do little to help the housing crisis.
- Megan Gorrey
The fight against a seven-storey housing block in Sydney’s north
The government wants to build more seniors housing. Locals say this proposal will clog roads, drive down property values and impinge on heritage buildings.
- Megan Gorrey
Scientists warn $100 billion ‘green’ project will destroy WA heritage
A plan to build 3000 wind turbines and six million solar panels in WA to make hydrogen and ammonia is in an area experts call “an irreplaceable global treasure”.
- Emma Young
The women who shaped Sydney history and changed Sita Sargeant’s life
A canny publican who used a legal loophole to vote inspired a new book and walking tours to showcase notable women in history.
- Julie Power
There are plans to build 2500 homes in Parramatta. The council wants more offices
More homes or more offices? Plans to redevelop Parramatta North have riled heritage advocates, a Labor MP and, most recently, the local council.
- Megan Gorrey
- Opinion
- Planning
How a ham and cheese toastie could upend the state’s planning laws
The Victorian government insists its changes to planning laws won’t change heritage overlays. This is partly true. It’s also disingenuous.
- Chip Le Grand
Asbestos, termites and red tape: Church battles to demolish heritage-listed hall
A Brisbane church has asked the city council for clearance to demolish the historic hall, which it can’t afford to repair.
- Catherine Strohfeldt
- Updated
- Marine life
‘Like an underwater bushfire:’ Shocking images as heatwave bleaches Ningaloo
Advocates are calling this a “red alert” moment for the usually resilient reef, as a marine heatwave already linked to a fish kill and cyclone intensification moves south.
- Emma Young
New museum head puts on a stunning exhibition: her own Sydney home
A 49-square-metre home by US architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin will be open to the public to celebrate the contribution of female architects.
- Julie Power
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