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Fafiul Hossain and the bed bugs that greeted him upon his arrival in Sydney.

‘A thousand times worse than Bangladesh’: How international students are finding Sydney

When future engineer Rafiul Hossain arrived in Sydney, he didn’t expect to have to share his bed with bugs. And he isn’t the only newcomer to our fair city with a story to tell.

  • Angus Dalton, Billie Eder, Millie Muroi, Anthony Segaert and Angus Thomson

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‘A recipe for disaster’: The rules putting Sydney’s international students at risk

After three years of restricted travel and online learning, international students have returned to Sydney in projected record numbers. But what, exactly, have they signed up for?

  • Angus Dalton, Billie Eder, Millie Muroi, Anthony Segaert and Angus Thomson
At Waverley Cemetery, the resting place with a view, a plot can cost as much as $28,000.

More people died last year than ever before. Sydney’s death industry has struggled to cope

Morticians cannot keep up and Sydney is running out of space.

  • Anthony Segaert
Market analyst Lee Savage said overnight trading was good preparation for parenthood.

Money never sleeps, but that’s not what keeps Sydney’s bedroom traders up at night

Trading in cryptocurrency may be fraught. But the hardy souls who stay up all night offer a glimpse into the 24-7 market.

  • Millie Muroi
The Sydney we don’t talk about

The Sydney we don’t talk about

As the city springs back to life, we reveal its untold stories.

A staircase nicknamed the “stairway to heaven”, where fresh air travels up and out the “poo pipe”.

Fifty metres beneath Bondi, a stench that stings your eyes may help Sydney survive

What was once dumped into Sydney’s Harbour and off beaches as raw sewage now holds Sydney’s secrets. We take a trip through the sewer in the latest installment in our series The Sydney we don’t talk about.

  • Angus Dalton
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Author Nicola West outside her apartment in Woolloomooloo shortly before going into isolation in March 2020.

For many, the pandemic is over. For Nicola, there’s no end in sight

Nicola West was about to sign the biggest deal of her life. The next day, a pandemic was declared and she hasn’t left her apartment since. The Herald’s series on the Sydney we don’t talk about continues.

  • Angus Thomson
One-third of homes in Millers Point were empty on Census night.

In this Sydney suburb, one in three homes is empty. It’s not just a data error

There are 164,624 empty homes in Sydney, yet we have a five-figure waiting list for public housing. Experts say solving the city’s housing crisis will not be simple.

  • Angus Dalton, Billie Eder, Millie Muroi, Anthony Segaert and Angus Thomson
Mistress Lucilla at her Darlinghurst dungeon.

Mistress Lucilla doesn’t need saving. She thinks sex workers are saving Sydney

As Sydney springs back to life, we reveal its untold stories. In the first of a series about the things we don’t speak about, we look at the challenges in the sex industry.

  • Billie Eder

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