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Mark Da Costa in his new St Peters cafe, Bueno Eatery.

He called his cafe a ‘Trump safe zone’ but now he’s making a comeback

Mark da Costa says he’s a different man to the one who made a string of homophobic comments in 2020. But some inner west residents will boycott his new venue.

  • Angus Thomson and Anthony Segaert

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Mayor Sue Heins and state MP James Griffin at the ribbon cutting ceremony at Northern Beaches Council’s Freshwater Beach Playground, before it was abruptly shut.

This northern beaches playground opened in November. So why has it spent three months shut?

The $1.05 million Freshwater Beach Playground was opened with great fanfare last year – but it abruptly closed after a piece of equipment broke, injuring a child.

  • Anthony Segaert
Senior project manager Daniel Boylan on part of a 180-metre-long tunnel boring machine beneath Rosehill.

Sydney’s metro extension might not be open by Christmas

How long the final section’s open will be delayed hinges on testing of driverless metro trains over coming months.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The Fabulous Wonder Mama at the Sydney Mardi Gras press conference at The Beresford in Surry Hills, NSW. February 28, 2025.

Sydney Mardi Gras 2025 as it happened: Thousands line Oxford Street to celebrate city’s LGBTQ community

Follow our live coverage as 10,000 marchers make their way down a crowd-lined Oxford Street for the 47th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.

  • Megan Gorrey, Nick Newling and Lucy Macken
Mohammad Ismail makes the first batch of Palestinian Nabulsi knafeh for customers and the stall he has at the Lakemba Nights during Ramadan

‘Just a sanity check’: How these Sydney streets are preparing for a sacred month

The holy period of Ramadan means different things to different people, but to Mohammad Ismail the most important thing is patience.

  • Anthony Segaert
Keiron Brown, Sarah Martin, Alita Morgan, Aunty Barb Simms and Russell Weston will represent the LaPa Legends for the first time in Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade.

Alita grew up worried she’d get bashed. At Mardi Gras, she’ll march with thousands

A first-time float will celebrate one suburb’s LGBTQ community and its First Nations people. “You go through a lot of struggles being both,” a marcher said.

  • Megan Gorrey
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Images from the 2024 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Everything you need to know for the 2025 Sydney Mardi Gras

Read our guide to the road closures, planned track work and night-time public transport for the Mardi Gras Parade.

  • Nick Newling
Aiden and Hermione Kumar and Sophia Acosta play after their swimming lessons at Blacktown Leisure Centre.

The Sydney areas where pools are buckling under demand

Australia’s public pools are under pressure as growing areas struggle with few facilities and ageing infrastructure takes a toll on council budgets.

  • Julie Power
Community assets manager Andrew Killingsworth deep inside St James station’s abandoned southern tunnels.

Sydney’s ghost tunnels are finally ready to reveal their secrets

The abandoned tunnels at St James station will be opened to daily ticketed tours – almost 100 years after they were completed.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Shen Yun in Sydney.

Their posters are everywhere, but behind Shen Yun lies a darker story

The group promises to take audiences into 5000 years of Chinese history, but it is the result of a spiritual movement established in 1992.

  • Anthony Segaert

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