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Queer Post Codes On the rise of Sydney’s rainbow elite
by Helen Razer
“I was once asked to leave a pub in Surry effing Hills for the very minor offence of humping the cigarette machine.”
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Kings Cross: It’s Not All Give One take on homelessness in Sydney
by Ross Duncan
Aboriginal people, such as Rose, and Torres Strait Islanders made up 2.5 per cent of the Australian population in 2011 but 25 per cent of people who were homeless on Census night.
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The Story of Beatriz Exploitation of migrant workers in Sydney’s local suburbs
by Hannah Bent
Beatriz* migrated illegally to Australia so she could send money back to her family in the Philippines. There, you have to pay the hospital a deposit before they will treat you. In Australia, Beatriz doesn’t have Medicare – when she needed an operation, friends helped her find a discreet doctor, and she paid in cash.
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Kings Crossed Does Sydney need a red-light district anymore?
by Clint Caward
The ‘war on drugs’ became the ‘war on carbs’ and at 2am in the once murky Springfield Avenue, you’re more likely to spot a gym junkie scoring a breadstick than a heroin addict looking for a foil. And isn’t this a good thing?
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Kings Cross: The Strip Days of future past
by Sonya Voumard
On Thursdays people with pockets full of pension money still scurry back and forth in small, urgent packs.
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Correspondence
Vulpine Menace A Letter from London
by Will Self
Will Self finds himself in a London invaded by foxes during the UK elections.
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Alan Jones, the Dodger and the Good Old, Bad Old Days The powerful broadcaster gave praise where it wasn’t always due
by Rick Feneley
“You don’t dial triple-0 if you want to get something done in this country… you dial 131 873 and you get on [to Alan Jones] and it’s done.”
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The Boat People Are Coming Mega marina threat to Elizabeth Bay
by Sonya Voumard
The 6,000 residents of Elizabeth Bay have seen their share of developers eyeing off our suburb’s dilapidated marina these last few years.
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What’s with the F#@!ing Fireworks, Sydney? Yet another night in boom boom town
by Ross Duncan
I begin to wonder if I’m living in Sydney, or Syria.
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Erasing the Bar
by Rick Feneley
How the fun police are censoring the names of Sydney’s watering holes
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Outside My House
by Jacinta Fintan
She tells me about her best friends, they go to a different school now. Emotion creeps into my throat and I start to feel anxious.
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No Suburb Left Behind The boom that is reshaping the city
by Leon Batchelor
Sydney has become a Frankenstein’s monster of bricks, steel, glass and four million bodies.
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