While I sympathise with SST’s anti-development line, I cannot believe that the solution to conserving Sydney’s trees can be achieved by a simple change of government. What is required is a celebration of trees for their intrinsic value, their character, their sense of place. It is in these famous trees that we find places. There is nothing delicate in a belief like that.
Browsing: Sydney
Beneath this easy facade, however, lies a history filled with stories of political, cultural, and artistic activism. Let’s take a stroll down Glebe Point Road.
The 17th of December saw the tenth week of protests against the ongoing occupation of Palestine and genocide against Gaza in Sydney’s Hyde Park.
To international students, this question is nothing new. While culture shock influences the confusion, it’s a question still worth answering.
Whilst the marches, sit-ins, and picket lines of the world are powerful, street-art will always be one of the most enduring manifestations of public outcry against the status quo.
Parramatta Road and its secrets remind us that, when we look beyond the stained windows of our morning 413 or past the grittiness of the road’s concrete skin, a hidden world where past and present coalesce is all around us.
Chinatown is not a timeless exotic town square separated from the rest of Sydney. Rather, it is an institution shaped by people with diverse identities interacting with one another in Australia’s unique cultural landscape.
The road to settling into a new city is bumpy, with many mistakes made along the way.
In conversation with artists and organisers from Sydney’s rave and dance music scenes.
The End Times explores Sydney’s most evocative development application.
