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Wendy Harmer says the sounds of summer can be defeaning.

Deafening cacophony when it’s the Big Day Out in your backyard

You know it’s bad when you opt for a Motorhead rock concert to get a bit of shoosh from the summer wildlife.

  • Wendy Harmer

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Trent Foo, a 23-year-old actor, at his rental in Sydney’s Glebe.

The Sydney suburbs where rents jumped up to 30 per cent in a year

Houses and units from the northern beaches to the inner west, west and south-west recorded a double-digit surge in the year to September.

  • Kristy Johnson
The happy buyers Manu and Kristen with vendor Pamela Sayers and agent and auctioner, Brian Fairweather at the Collaroy auction.

Collaroy house sells for $2.33 million, last sold for $260,000 in the 1990s

A young couple, who had considered the Northern Beaches for the first time, outbid five other registered buyers on the home, a stone’s throw away from the beach.

  • Tawar Razaghi
Beach erosion

‘Unusual’ winter swells erode Sydney beaches and sand dunes

Beaches recover relatively rapidly from coastal erosion, but sand dunes can take years to repair.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Jenny Connah and her husband Dave with children Penny and Tim at Collaroy Beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches where they have owned a house for 25 years.

‘It has everything you need’: What it costs to live in the Sydney suburbs with the highest wellbeing

A suburb’s wellbeing was measured on several indicators such as health, environment, jobs and income – but it comes at a price.

  • Elizabeth Redman and Tawar Razaghi
Seawall at Collaroy

Seawalls? We should fight them, and not just on the northern beaches

We have our heads buried in the proverbial sand when it comes to coastal erosion. The time to think about the fate of our beloved beaches is now.

  • Wendy Harmer
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Beach erosion at Narrabeen.

How La Nina shrinks Sydney’s beaches...and they recover

Scientists have found beaches along Australia’s south-east coast slim down by up to 20 per cent during La Nina climate cycles, and beef up again during El Nino events.

  • Ben Cubby
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The Surf Deck's burger is hard to beat on a summer afternoon

The perfect cheeseburger doesn't exist, but this beachside cocktail shack might be the perfect place to scoff one.

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Surfrider Foundation Australia northern beaches president Brendan Donohoe stands next to a warning sign at Collaroy Beach.

Council was asked about ‘danger’ signs on Collaroy Beach. Within hours they had disappeared

Locals have warned of large rocks in the water where a controversial seawall was damaged a year ago. The council denies there is a problem.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Collaroy beach has been eroded following a king tide and the after effects of ex-tropical cyclone Seth.

Collaroy Beach a ‘hellscape’ as sand in front of seawall washed away: residents

Beaches along the eastern coastline have experienced heavy erosion and scientists fear climate change will only make these events more frequent and more intense.

  • Laura Chung

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