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Friday essay: what can we learn about a city from its writers?

There is a pleasure for readers in walking streets known from the pages of books. Taking literary walking tours in London, Paris, New York or Dublin, readers conjure the worlds of Woolf, Hemingway, Whitman or Joyce. We move through the streets in the here and now, but also amid characters…

The Conversation · Aug 28, 2025

Hailstones Fell without Rain by Natalia Figueroa Barroso review – a funny and tender debut

This exuberant novel, set in western Sydney and Uruguay, celebrates matrilineal connection over three generations of one family

The Guardian - AU · Aug 28, 2025

Sydney Marathon schedule, elite fields and how to watch

Everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 edition of the race

The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2025

Noah Centineo’s Ripped Selfie From His Sydney Hotel Room Has Lit The Internet On Fire

Attention Sydneysiders! We’ve all been going about our bustling daily lives, completely unaware that Noah Centineo is not only in town, but absolutely fucken RIPPED! The jacked teen heartthrob is in the country filming the upcoming flick Street Fighter and he’s taken to Instagram to make his presence known, posting…

Pedestrian.tv · Aug 27, 2025

Australia 'had to act' on Iran's hand in Jewish attacks

Iran's role in directing anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish premises in Sydney and Melbourne left the Albanese government with no choice but to act, an expert says.

AAP · Aug 26, 2025

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. What does this mean?

In a joint press conference, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Iran orchestrated two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil: the October 2024 attack on Sydney’s Lewis Continental Kitchen and the firebombing of the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne in December 2024.

The Conversation · Aug 26, 2025

Australia Expels Iran Ambassador Over Antisemitic Attacks

Australia expelled Iran's ambassador on Tuesday, accusing the country of being behind antisemitic arson attacks in Melbourne and Sydney.

International Business Times · Aug 26, 2025

Australia says Iran was behind two antisemitic attacks; Iranian ambassador expelled

Australia’s national security service has determined the Iranian government directed at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia – on Lewis Continental Kitchen in Sydney, and the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne.

The Conversation · Aug 26, 2025

Plan to finish forgotten Woollahra train station and build 10,000 homes won’t combat Sydney’s affordability crisis, critics say

‘If this just becomes a very high-end market development … it’s not going to do anything,’ University of Sydney academic says

The Guardian - AU · Aug 26, 2025

Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally. Inside Sydney’s swish Fullerton Hotel, a glittering cast of vice-chancellors, politicians, public servants, journalists, and consultants deliberated at a higher education summit, sponsored by the Australian Financial Review…

The Conversation · Aug 25, 2025