Cindy Yin
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How a five-hour Woollahra Council meeting quickly turned personal (opens the original)
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A fiery five-hour council meeting took a personal turn when the Woollahra mayor revealed she looked up the value of a pro-housing advocate’s home during a debate over plans to add 9400 homes to Sydney’s eastern suburbs. There was only one item on the agenda at Woollahra Council’s extraordinary meeting on Wednesday night – to finalise how the council would respond to the most significant rezoning of the eastern suburbs in decades. Under state government plans unveiled last month, housing density
Third time’s a charm? McDonald’s to open new store in the heart of Newtown (opens the original)
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Hipsters will go head-to-head with Happy Meals in one of Sydney’s most vibrant entertainment strips after McDonald’s used a fast-track development process to take over the Oporto restaurant on Enmore Road. The fast-food chain’s move into the heart of the Newtown-Enmore nightlife precinct comes after an earlier bid to set up shop on King Street was rejected twice and met fierce resistance from residents. Long-time Newtown resident Lynn Stanton, who is among locals opposed to the chain’s arrival i
It took Rikki three years to get her forever home. She counts herself lucky (opens the original)
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Warning: This story contains graphic content. When Rikki James’ ex-partner smashed her head into a concrete floor, not even her life-threatening brain aneurysm and surviving brain surgery could stop the barrage of abuse and gaslighting that came afterwards. Chants of “you’re useless, you’re stupid, you’ve got a brain injury, you need me”, while painful, left a searing impression on James and solidified her resolve to leave. In 2012, she fled Cairns for NSW’s South Coast and hasn’t shed a single
The texts that spared a Sydney council from scrutiny over a $24m synthetic oval (opens the original)
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One of NSW’s top bureaucrats in charge of the local government watchdog and a council boss circumvented a process scrutinising how costs for a public synthetic oval project ballooned to more than $24 million. Text messages seen by the Herald reveal Ku-ring-gai Council’s general manager, David Marshall, and Brett Whitworth, the long-serving deputy secretary responsible for the Office of Local Government (OLG), discussed a spending analysis for the beleaguered Norman Griffiths Oval synthetic upgra
‘Appalling’: Sydney council sparks backlash after erasing Indigenous signs (opens the original)
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One of the most culturally diverse councils in Sydney has voted to remove all references to Indigenous Australians and the phrase “Always was, always will be” from gateway signage, sparking backlash from critics who say the move is an appalling step in the wrong direction. Strathfield’s Liberal councillor John-Paul Baladi said his motion was about “removing political language” from existing signage that in his view was “subpar”, “overpriced”, and “divisive”. Baladi pointed to AI-generated images
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