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The Sydney suburbs failing to meet housing targets
Sydney is more than 30,000 homes behind its target. Here’s how your suburb fares.
- Megan Gorrey
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Inside Sydney’s next pool facing cost and timeline blowouts
After finding asbestos, bikes, bottles and “a whole heap of things”, the reconstruction of the Canterbury Leisure and Aquatic Centre has reached a milestone.
- Mostafa Rachwani
Ex-council boss denies he fuelled protests sparked by job loss rumours
Hundreds of union members held a fiery protest as rumours swirled one Sydney council was poised to slash 150 jobs. There was no such plan, an inquiry has heard.
- Megan Gorrey
Sydney was promised 6000 trees. There’s nowhere to plant them
Residents near Sydney’s newest motorway say they are being short-changed as construction workers wrestle to find space to replace thousands of trees.
- David Barwell
‘We have little choice’: North Sydney Council to charge $50 for view of NYE fireworks
Locals are frustrated by North Sydney Council’s controversial plan to charge revellers $50 to view the fireworks at Blues Point.
- Cindy Yin
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Why the cost of holding an election in one Sydney council has nearly doubled
As costs of running local government elections soar, one south-west council is grappling with a bill that has ballooned by 90 per cent.
- Cindy Yin
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Inside the North Sydney Olympic Pool revamp, $42,000 frogs and all
For years, the project to transform the famous venue has been frustrated by cost blowouts and delays. The council hopes the $122 million overhaul will be worth the wait.
- Megan Gorrey
In the heart of industrial Greenacre, a frog sanctuary teems with life
Once plentiful, now endangered: Sydney’s green and golden bell frogs are coming back in the most unlikely of places.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘A bro area full of testosterone’: Tension over the Bondi Beach gym crackdown
A council decision to remove dumbbells and weights from Bondi Beach’s outdoor gym has sparked debate over the suburb’s fitness scene.
- David Barwell
The fight to stop a ‘parking station for oversized boats’ on Sydney Harbour
Residents say plans to triple the size of a marina for luxury vessels would disrupt views of a famed foreshore park, as well as prized heritage assets.
- Megan Gorrey and Michaela Whitbourn
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