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  • Council wants more power to curb drinking

    City of Sydney Councillors want more powers written into law so they can "civilise" the city's late-night entertainment precincts, creating a "sophisticated culture" in the words of Lord Mayor Clover Moore. On Monday Councillors faced four community members who each had three minutes to speak ...
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  • Late-night trading debate now in black and white

    COMMENT Almost the most fun a council nerd can have (with their clothes on) is to make a submission to Council and then, months later, read a point-by-point response to it in black and white. It's where two universes meet, where one's personal world-view intersects with ...
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    Kings Cross - a swinging late-night place to rendezvous way back in 1964

  • Hair today, gone for a great cause

    "The World's Greatest Shave" will take place this Friday to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Sydney's event will be held in Martin Place, where participants can help to raise much needed funds to help care for blood cancer sufferers. Marketing Manager for the Leukaemia Foundation ...
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  • Sydney women demand end to femicide

    Sydney is a long way from Jurez, the Mexican-US border city that since the early 1990s has become a women's graveyard. Since 1993, it is estimated that more than 400 women have been murdered in this gritty city where violence and impunity have been ...
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    Families of murdered women demand justice

  • Hazel fights on

    Newtown resident Hazel Blunden lost her battle against a conviction for trespass on rail tracks at Newcastle Coal Terminal when the District Court rejected her appeal on February 17. Blunden was part of the Newcastle Climate Camp in July 2008, when 1000 people delayed ...
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    Hazel Blunden (centre) tried to stop the export of coal

  • OPERA: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

    Adapted from the Shakespearean comedy by composer Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, this opera is a seductive and lush experience. The plot is faithful to its source, as four lovers and a group of amateur players are caught up in a feud between Oberon, ...
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    Tobias Cole (Oberon) and Tyler Coppin (Puck) in Opera Australia's A Midsummer Night's Dream Photo: Branco Gaica

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Bondi View News

  • Mardi Gras party busted

    Surry Hills police raided this year's Mardi Gras Party in Moore Park but came away with relatively small fry. Between 10pm Saturday March 6 and 2.30am Sunday, police and drug detection dogs drug searched 102 people near Driver Avenue and issued field court attendance notices ...
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  • Playing the blues

    Texas blues man Eugene Hideaway Bridges will appear at the Coogee Diggers club on March 19. The singer, songwriter and guitarist has made Australia his second home, having first toured here in the late 1990s and since played hundreds of shows in every state and ...
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  • End of the hunt

    This year's whaling season in Australia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Southern Ocean has ended as winter approaches. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) ships, Steve Irwin and Bob Barker, have had the whale processing mother ship Nisshin Maru on the run for more ...
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    The Nishin Maru2 in action

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Inner West Independent

  • Young, green thumbs up for community garden

    They're a growing trend in Sydney, and Dulwich Hill has become the latest to join the queue with Denison Road Playground slated to be the venue for Marrickville Council's newest community garden project. The Dulwich Hill community garden follows the model established in similar ...
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    Addison Road Food Forest community garden is one of four existing community gardens in the Marrickville area

  • Webber’s winning recipe

    For any business startup, lasting six months can be a daunting challenge, let alone a full year. An impressive achievement, then, for Webber's Carpet Warehouse in Annandale, which last year celebrated its 40th birthday. Proprietor Grahame Webber, 65, is rightly proud of the business he ...
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  • Rozelle hosts African charity fundraiser

    The Sydney College of the Arts has played host to the sale of around 100 contemporary Ubuntu artworks, part of an initiative to raise funds to improve the lives of women in Ethiopia. A number of prominent Australian artists and photographers, including the likes of ...
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    Women at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia suffer from obstetric fistula, a childbirth condition almost unknown in the West

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