Sydney’s Inner West Council Moves To Restrict AI Smart Glasses
Inner West Council will restrict AI smart glasses in public facilities, with accessibility exemptions and final entry rules still to come.
Published by Janine Preston
Leura Cascades Reopens With Heritage Lighting, But Tracks Remain Closed
Leura Cascades has reopened with heritage lighting and safer track upgrades, but northern access and Lower Fern Bower remain closed.
Second Inner West GreenWay Planned After First Nears One Million Visits
Inner West Council is designing a second GreenWay from Ashfield to Iron Cove after the existing route neared one million first-year visits.
Shelly Beach Patrols Return For Peak Summer Swimming
Shelly Beach will receive seasonal lifeguard patrols for the first time from 21 December 2026 to 31 January 2027.
Maroubra’s Mahon Pool At 90 – The Advocate Who Made It Happen
Mahon Pool marks 90 years since Maroubra locals honoured Patrick Mahon, the alderman who helped create the Depression-era ocean pool.
Bilal El-Hayek Re-Elected To Lead Canterbury-Bankstown
Bilal El-Hayek has been re-elected unopposed as Canterbury-Bankstown mayor as major metro, hospital and recreation projects progress.
Northern Beaches Public Picks Three Environmental Art Winners
Almost 3000 votes selected three winners in the 2026 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize People’s Choice Awards.
Sydney Cyclists Get 53 New Independent Helmet Safety Ratings
Helmet STAR has rated 53 more bicycle helmets, giving Sydney riders independent safety comparisons across more than 160 models.
Sydney Ferry Disruptions Escalate as F3 Services Stay Suspended
Sydney Ferries passengers face route changes through 6 October, with F3 services suspended on 12 and 13 September and fares disputed.
Paddington Profile – Victorian Terraces Older Than Their Own Fame
Paddington carries a name that predates the suburb’s Victorian-era terrace heritage by several decades: the Geographical Names Board records that James Underwood gave the name to his estate at least by 1839, making the Paddington designation older than the suburb’s most defining characteristic, the dense rows of Victorian terraces with their cast-iron lacework balconies that […]
Sydney to Canberra by Car, Train, Bus or Plane – Comparison & Important Route Tips
Canberra is close enough to Sydney that flying is almost never the right call, and that single fact shapes everything else about this trip. At under 300km, it’s a day-trip distance by car or train, which makes the real decision less about which mode gets you there fastest and more about which one you’ll actually […]
The First 100 Years of Parramatta – The Life and Times of Settlement to City
Let’s go back to 1788, 18 years after James Cook charted the east coast of Australia and landed at Botany Bay. That year, Captain Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet into Port Jackson, establishing the first permanent British settlement in Australia and setting in motion the events that would soon bring Europeans into the heart […]
Waverley Council Approves Eora Park Memorial Garden for Bondi Junction Victims
Waverley Council has approved a permanent memorial garden at Eora Park for victims of the 2024 Bondi Junction attack, with opening targeted for 2027.
Rooty Hill Profile – Diverse, Connected and Convenient Living in Western Sydney
Rooty Hill doesn’t try to be Parramatta or Penrith, and it shouldn’t. It’s a modest, multicultural, owner-occupier suburb wedged between Mount Druitt and Eastern Creek that most Sydneysiders know for two things: an unusual name that traces back to a Norfolk Island hillside, and a train station that’s been running since 1861, one of the […]
West Hoxton Profile – Liverpool’s Established Suburb Without Its Own Train Station
West Hoxton is what a growth suburb looks like twenty years after the growth stops making headlines. Most of Liverpool’s newest estates, Austral, Denham Court, Catherine Field, are still mid-build, still arguing with the council over infrastructure. West Hoxton did that argument in the late 1990s and early 2000s and has spent the two decades […]
Carnes Hill Profile – The Community Precinct South West Sydney Grew Around
Carnes Hill is what happens when a council builds the community centre first and lets the suburb catch up around it. Most of South West Sydney’s growth suburbs get rooftops for years before they get any real gathering place. Carnes Hill got its library, community centre, skate park, cafe and shopping precinct clustered on the […]
Middleton Grange Profile – A Masterplanned Growth Suburb Waiting on its Transport Upgrade & Town Centre
Middleton Grange is named after Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton, a Royal Australian Air Force pilot posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for flying his crippled Halifax bomber back over the Alps after a 1942 raid on Turin so his crew could bail out safely. The suburb was gazetted on 7 January 2005, and the developers […]
Grantham Farm Profile – Sydney North West’s Newest Estate Still Finding Its Feet
Grantham Farm is barely old enough to have a proper history of its own. Gazetted on 6 November 2020 out of what had been part of Riverstone, it is one of the youngest suburbs on the map in Sydney’s North West Growth Area, and it looks it: turf still green with newness, streets of near-identical […]
Glenwood Profile – Sydney North West’s School-Zone Premium Suburb
Glenwood is what happens when a masterplanned suburb finishes building and just gets on with life. There are no cranes here, no display homes, no sales offices spruiking the “next release.” The estate was largely built out through the 1990s and 2000s on land once known as Norfolk Vale, then Sorrento, then Glenwood Park, and […]
Colebee Profile – Sydney North West’s Golf Estate Named for a Dharug Land Rights Pioneer
Colebee is the suburb that put a Greg Norman-designed golf course at the centre of a Sydney growth-area estate, and named the whole thing after a man who spent his life negotiating, not always willingly, the terms on which colonial Sydney and the Dharug people would coexist. It is a young, still-forming pocket of the […]