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  • Graffiti of the week

    They're calling it the Letter Series' around Kings Cross, rumoured to be chalked by a British backpacker which seems likely as the apostrophes are in the right place and the author has a vocabulary. This one resonates with the live and let live' culture ...
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    A timely reminder to the 'me' generation

  • Comment: Councillor Harris is misinformed

    In response to the article titled "Millers Point Skate Park Plan Angers Residents" which appeared in the January 28 edition of the City News. The Millers Point Skate Park was conceived in a clandestine manner in the dungeons of Town Hall in 2006 by Council ...
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  • February homelessness street count

    The Council and Mission Australia are calling for volunteers to take part in this year's street count of homeless people. Approximately 170 volunteers and a small group of homelessness advisers will walk streets and parks early in the morning to conduct a head count ...
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City Hub News

  • Youth For Change Face Difficult Climate

    Anna Rose and Amanda McKenzie, co-directors of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, led a team of 20 Australian youth delegates to the climate change conference at Copenhagen in December. They came back disappointed with the results but not despondent. Rose, 26, sums up Copenhagen as ...
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    AYCC Delegates standing in support with AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) at an AOSIS press conference

  • Flagging Australia

    Police have arrested two women and a man over the alleged stealing of a flag from Newtown RSL club on the eve of Australia Day. In an excited media release, police say the three, each aged 27, were from Darlington and Waverley. They claim one ...
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  • THE NAKED CITY – with Miss Death, Jay Katz and Coffin Ed

    THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL - TIME TO WIND BACK THE CLOCK! There's no doubt that this year's Sydney Festival was a great success, certainly artistically and one would guess financially as well. There was a massive diversity of music, dance, theatre and the visual arts - ...
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    Bring back the mutt

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Bondi View News

  • Kennovich vs Kekovich in BBQ battle

    According to comedian Simon Kennovich (also known as Simon Kennedy) lamb on Australia Day is un-Australian, a claim to be proved on Bondi Beach tomorrow. Fronting a new campaign for South African company Fry's Vegetarian, Kennovich lays down the gauntlet to Sam Kekovich who, in ...
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  • Family says no to depot at Hugh Bamford Reserve

    The family of the late Hugh Bamford have come out strongly against a proposed plan to build a depot on the Hugh Bamford Reserve. Waverley Council has been considering the relocation of a "satellite sub depot" from its current Zetland site to the reserve. The ...
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    Opposition is mounting to setting up a depot in the reserve

  • Flag equality now standard

    Waverley Council unanimously passed a motion moved by Cr Dominic Wy Kanak in December to ensure the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags are flown with the other ceremonial flags around the Waverley Park cenotaph during Remembrance Day ceremonies. The motion also called on the ...
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    Councillor Dominic Wy Kanak wants to fly the flag

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Inner West Independent

  • Goodwill ambassador

    For a man who has worn dozens of hats in his lifetime, Warren Mundine's role as an official Australia Day Ambassador for Ashfield Council may, on first acquaintance, appear curious to some. Given the historical implications of white settlement for Indigenous people, surely he ...
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    Warren Mundine is an Australia Day Ambassador for Ashfield Council

  • Confusion reigns over inner west transport plans

    The recent surprise announcement by NSW Premier Kristina Keneally that property acquisitions for the CBD Metro in Rozelle had been put on hold has people in the area very excited and confused. Just ask proprietor of the threatened Adore Pharmacy in Rozelle, Chadi Tahan, ...
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    The future of Leichhardt? With the fate of the Rozelle metro hanging in the balance, light rail has recently returned to the forefront of public transport calculations in the inner west

  • Laneways relocates to Rozelle

    An inherent trait that adds to the bohemian charm of Melbourne is the way in which you find yourself suddenly tucked into one of its many cozy laneways, usually thick with the aroma of freshly-ground coffee beans. It was this very essence of Melbourne that ...
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    Performing at Laneway... Alex Gow and mate Thomas Savage, right, are the dynamic duo behind Oh Mercy

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