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  • End of the tunnel brings a flickering light

    COMMENT The axing of the CBD Metro and the decision to extend light rail through the city is a light at the end of the tunnel but still a flickering one. The move has radically changed the future shape of the CBD, and a ...
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    A light rail tram set sees daylight at Darling Harbour

  • Town Hall Square back on the backburner

    COMMENT - The axing of the CBD Metro has put Council's pet project, Town Hall Square, back on the backburner now that the State will not be acquiring any properties in the busy business hub, opposite Town Hall, that Council wants to demolish. City centre workers ...
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    Artist’s impression of Town Hall Square off a pedestrianised George St, showing people running around wondering where the shops and pub went

  • Harris: Laneways funding a misuse of public funds

    Greens Councillor Chris Harris has blasted Clover Moore's laneways revitalisation project, calling Council grants to businesses "corporate welfare." The City has approved a $30,000 cash grant to open a small bar and is considering a second $30,000 grant for the Moran Arts Foundation to ...
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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

  • Party lines drawn over rate rise

    Waverley Council is locked in a loggerheads dispute over a proposed increase in rates to address a financial shortfall that has both major parties pointing the finger at each other. Liberal Mayor Sally Betts and Liberal councillor Tony Kay moved to publish a Long Term ...
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  • South American Festival turns 30

    There's a huge party at the Bondi Pavilion on Sunday February 21 when Sydney's longest running Latin American festival celebrates its 30th birthday. The Pav's South American Festival will mark the occasion with a huge line up of entertainment over seven hours and across three ...
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    A capoeira display will be part of the festival treats

  • Monks move on

    The Gyuto Monks of Tibet have left Bondi following their most successful and memorable Sydney tour to continue their Summer of Zhambhala Wish Fulfilling By The Water tour around Australia. The tour consists of workshops and programs that demonstrate their ancient tantric rituals and ...
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    Tibetan Nun Robina Courtin with Sydney Swan’s Brett Kirk at the launch of Tibet’s Timeless Tantric Tradition on January 20.

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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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