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‘Very Sydney’ ban on standing while drinking outdoors is set to end
If you’ve ever been ordered to sit down while eating or drinking at one of the city’s al fresco dining areas, that may soon change.
- by Michael Koziol
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Development
Clover Moore pitches ‘interim solution’ to Cahill Expressway dilemma
In a bid to win over the state government, the lord mayor has proposed a two-stage demolition of the maligned road and railway station.
- by Michael Koziol
‘Out of control’: Big stink as bins overflow in central Sydney
Clover Moore’s council is under growing pressure to stop rubbish piling up on city streets amid an investigation into what has gone wrong.
- by Michael Koziol
Inner city farmers markets, festivals will prove sceptics wrong, Sydney mayor hopes
Fourteen programs - including six months of Friday night music in Erskineville - will create new “micro-precincts” across villages in the CBD and inner city.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Artificial ‘sunshine’ to beam on inner Sydney in new art installation
Leading German sculptor Tobias Rehberger is behind four public artworks costed at $1.7 million that bring the world’s sunshine to Green Square.
- by Linda Morris
‘A tragedy’: Waterloo estate overhaul ignites housing crisis debate
“If we can’t have social housing on publicly owned sites, where are we going to have it?” remarked Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore at a council meeting.
- by Megan Gorrey
Parks, pools and piazzas: Push to make Sydney in 2050 a place for people
The city council wants a series of “aspirational” city-shaping projects. One critic says they’re “not based in reality”.
- by Megan Gorrey
TV stars and athletes beat out politicians in this year’s Archibald haul
Lisa McCune, Brooke Boney and Dylan Alcott are some of the well-known faces whose portraits have been entered in this year’s Archibalds.
- by Helen Pitt
Traffic noise: It sounds ‘like gunshots ... it wakes up dogs, it wakes up babies’
Research has found the noisiest spots in Sydney were along the Western Distributor and Cahill Expressway. The city entrance to the Harbour Bridge was the worst.
- by Julie Power
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City life
Free transport, extended pedestrian zones on City of Sydney’s CBD wishlist
Lord mayor Clover Moore wants all public sector workers back in the office three days a week – and she’s joined a campaign encouraging the private sector to make the same move.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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City life
How we’ll revive a tired Moore Park precinct and expand green space
The Entertainment Quarter’s vision will not further commercialise public space. It will do the reverse – and increase Sydney’s liveability.
- by Sam Romaniuk