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Shopping centre escalators.

Why shopping centre escalators are designed to make you get lost

You may think that escalators forcing you to walk around the shopping centre are a failure of design. You could not be more wrong.

  • Julie Power

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Luxe Bar Cafe owners Amornrut Kamhom and Michael Dunkley, Hair Royale owner Bill Mohana, and GloBar owner Vinny Jovanovski.

A plea for help after the heartbreak of Bondi Junction

There’s one thing missing from Westfield Bondi Junction that is making it difficult for tenants to move on.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Security guards at Westfield Bondi Junction wore protective vests in a new security initiative after Saturday’s attack.

Security guards wear new protective vests as Westfield Bondi Junction reopens

Shoppers felt an overwhelming sense of loss as they returned to the eastern suburbs mall on Friday.

  • Anthony Segaert
Emergency services arrive at Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon.

Multiple people killed in Bondi Junction stabbing attack

Six people have died in a stabbing spree at Bondi Junction shopping centre on Saturday afternoon.

  • Sally Rawsthorne, Nigel Gladstone, Perry Duffin, Amber Schultz and Sarah McPhee
Far from being a soulless shell, the humble shopping centre is a comforting, climate-controlled hug.

Joyful, comforting and air-conditioned: The shopping centre is a gift to us all

The humble shopping centre - once a meeting point for everyone from horny teenagers to exhausted parents - is battling a decline in relevance. But it means more to us than we realise.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Concept for Gympie Road, Chermside, from Suburban Futures. A vision for the north Brisbane suburb.

‘Nundah on steroids’: New vision for Brisbane’s ‘alternative CBD’

An urban planning think-tank has released its vision for a new northside CBD, but it is dependent on a major piece of infrastructure being built.

  • Cameron Atfield
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On the plus side for the tenants of shopping centres, retail sales across the country just recorded eight straight months of growth.

Christmas shopping makes post-lockdown comeback

Mall giant Westfield says shoppers are flocking to its centres ahead of the first lockdown-free festive season in years and buying more despite soaring inflation and rising interest rates.

  • Simon Johanson
Julie Bishop stepped out in a crazy-cat- lady-style vest alongside partner David Panton.

Sydney’s A-list turn out for a night of Phantom of the Opera and the harbour

Celebrities and dignitaries turned out in droves for the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour on Friday night.

  • Lucy Manly
Westfield Bondi Junction is virtually empty.

‘Ghost town’: Shoppers desert Westfield Bondi Junction as COVID cluster grows

Retailers at the busy Westfield shopping centre in Sydney’s eastern suburbs have reported a drastic drop in foot traffic and plunge in sales in recent days.

  • Megan Gorrey and Dominic Powell
The Nazi mask on display in a shop window.

Nazi face mask on display in southern Sydney shop

The shop owner said he did not realise what the mask was depicting, and immediately took it down once he was told.

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