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Walking Home A Letter from London
by Will Self
The city seems to be both rapidly reconfiguring, and moving somewhere – although where I’m not entirely sure.
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Double Cross Another Friday night in Newtown
by Drew Rooke
Ten-to-midnight on Friday and King Street, Newtown, almost feels like Kings Cross did before it was neutered.
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Requiem for a Video Store ‘Gaze upon my unrented Adam Sandler DVDs, ye mighty, and despair!’
by Charles Purcell
Blockbuster’s fate was sealed in 2000, when it passed up the opportunity to buy Netflix for just $US50 million.
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The Big Empty Why are venues like the Hopetoun Hotel being left vacant?
by Catherine Merchant
It’s a curious thing that there are no laws preventing loveable properties from sitting vacant and dilapidated for decades.
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A Day with Mr Azzi Enmore Road’s happiest fruit seller
by Drew Rooke
"Man, it's simple, you know. All you've got to do is treat the people right."
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Cropping up Everywhere The real dirt on Sydney’s community gardens
by Clint Caward
The City of Sydney has 22 public garden plots in its jurisdiction, and will soon be adding a 23rd.
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Sydney’s Class Act Finding your way through a six-figure ghetto
by Helen Razer
This place has become a fortress; one built by the finance sector whose great love of lending has not only marked out a six-figure ghetto on the map, but a nationwide crisis of housing affordability.
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Jasmine and Asphalt A city scented with a season
by Rosalind Thomas
Concrete in the sun has a particular smell, and it’s elemental to the scent of Sydney’s spring.
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Is It Time to Rename Australia? The day Stan Grant told Captain Cook to get lost
by Clint Caward
"Study the past if you would divine the future,” said Confucius, but it’s difficult to study what’s no longer there.
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Monumental as Anything Another knock-down argument
by Jack ‘Bronzed Aussie’ Marx
NEIGHBOURHOOD takes a good hard look at some Sydney monuments that might be deserving of the wrecking ball…
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Pop-Up Architects and Pollinator Pets Honey bees are turning our homes into hives
by Bronwyn Holland
"A quick search yields extraordinary images of poltergeist-like curtains of honey slowly falling from uncovered ceilings..."
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Burning Down the House A Letter from Melbourne
by Ben Eltham
The suburban disaster zone just 18km from Melbourne’s CBD.
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