Herald turns 190
Oyster saloons, pub Thai and white wine in the sun: 190 years of Sydney dining
Presented with the chance to move to Sydney in 1994, Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix thought: “Why would you not do that?”
- by Michael Koziol and Callan Boys
Latest
Scandals and scoops: How gossip columns have changed our city
Just about every cracking journalism story – from politics to football – usually starts with loose lips spilling the beans on something someone powerful doesn’t want you to know.
- by Andrew Hornery
When a room of one’s own turns out to be in Redfern. Not New York
I thought that if I stayed in Sydney I would never be a great writer. But I have discovered there is no place like home.
- by Jessie Tu
Opinion
Spectrum
Don’t look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture
In 1973 our artists had begun establishing an Australian identity. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the world gasped at our Opera House.
- by Anne Summers
How we moved from convict brutality to songs around the piano
A cast of convicts performed Australia’s first play at Sydney Cove in 1789. But by the end of the 19th century the heart of entertainment was in the home.
- by Thomas Keneally
‘What can you expect from the sons of convicts?’ The rise of Australian sport
While Melbourne claims to be the centre of the sporting world, Sydney has shaped Australian sport. And the Herald has been there to cover it all.
- by Malcolm Knox
Opinion
Spectrum
Locked stationery cupboards and other memories of the relatively recent past
If the Sydney Morning Herald is 190, then I’ve been writing for it for a fifth of its life.
- by Richard Glover
How an artist with a dream brought Dolly Parton - or her likeness - to the Opera House
The work of six Indigenous female artists will grace the sails of the Sydney Opera House tonight, which will be illuminated for the first time tonight since the pandemic began.
- by Helen Pitt
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City life
Sydney celebrates 190 years of the Herald
Editor Lisa Davies celebrated the Herald’s contribution to the national debate over almost two centuries and “our unwavering commitment to pursuing the stories that matter to our readers”.
- by Samantha Hutchinson, Zoe Samios and Stephen Brook
The one building that put Sydney on the world map
The Sydney Morning Herald played a huge part in the story of our international icon, the Sydney Opera House.
- by Helen Pitt
How a cast of business moguls shaped Sydney
Stories of businesspeople bold, colourful, generous and ruthless have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald for 190 years. They’re moguls who would shape the city’s history and, indeed, the history of the Herald itself.
- by Anne Hyland
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