Six more train stations added to high-density housing plan
More councils are putting themselves forward for greater density around train stations as the state government’s signature housing policy is due to start.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Romance & reality
Lovers separated by Iron Curtain for 22 years ‘married by Anthony Albanese’
The romance started in 1975 at Sydney University. After being torn apart by international politics, they reunited decades later – with the help of a future prime minister.
- by Tim Barlass
Wong right to raise issue of Palestinian statehood
Congratulations to Penny Wong for taking the brave steps to commence a debate on the conflict in the Middle East.
Traveller Letters: Unfair fee pushed cost of my Australian passport over $500
“I know Australian passports are expensive but it seems if you renew overseas you are now hit with an additional fee of $155.”
Opinion
Fashion Week
Is Kmart fashion? This front row doesn’t care
Affordable fashion has infiltrated the runway at a once-prestigious fashion festival – and it’s like a television commercial come to life.
- by Damien Woolnough
Lazy measurement tools causing problems in our education system
Educational debate will only begin a process that should always be ongoing
The latest trend in fine-dining is … the potato scallop (or cake)
From powdered seaweed to caviar, chefs across NSW and Victoria are finding new ways to modernise the milk bar classic.
- by Scott Bolles
What I learnt from visiting 55 Australian towns in two months
I’m just back from a grand adventure, and there are a few lessons worth sharing.
- by Richard Glover
If grocery prices are too high, don’t buy
We don’t need an inquiry into grocery prices and we don’t need any more legislation. If prices are too high, don’t buy. Vote with your feet.
Feds told to urgently fix $110m gap for Sydney’s key spaghetti junction
The NSW roads minister is demanding the Albanese government “move heaven and earth” and restore funding for a critical motorway junction for Western Sydney Airport.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
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Roads
Albanese axes Sydney’s newest spaghetti junction roadway
The NSW government has been caught off guard by the axing of funding for the link connecting the M7 and M12.
- by Alexandra Smith, Michael Koziol and Shane Wright
Good behaviour begins at home and not as a classroom topic
Classroom disciplinary actions can always be improved but there are no easy fixes. The complexity of the issue is obvious to those in classrooms.
Don’t blame ordinary folk for inflation, look to the big end of town
Could researchers at the Reserve Bank bring the new governor up to speed on the lag in supply from COVID and now two wars?
Jacqueline Kennedy’s words in Dallas in 1963 foreshadow today’s America
The charismatic Kennedy exuded confidence and competence. He gave America a vision for the 1960s. He was the antithesis of the uninspiring Joe Biden and bumptious Donald Trump.