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Australian cities week

18 April 2024

  • AFP arrest man allegedly behind failed drug plot that led to cocaine bricks on NSW beaches – video

    The Australia federal police arrest a 36-year-old Queensland man, alleging he conspired to import 20 tonnes of drugs into Australia

13 April 2018

  • Singular beauty … Dee Why beach in northern Sydney.

    Surf, sand and sunset skylines: Australian cities on Instagram

    Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Canberra and Sydney have Instagram presences as distinct as their characters
  • Bondi Baths in Sydney.

    'The best in the world': a love letter to Australia's public pools

    Tracing his conversion from pool refusnik to aquatic evangelist, Benjamin Law asks: is swimming the Australian version of baptism?
  • ‘One huge, puzzling opportunity’ … Perth.

    'Sleepwalking into the future': readers' responses to Australian cities week

    From Melbourne’s overcrowding issues to Adelaide’s gutsy success story, here’s what you said about the state of Australia’s cities

12 April 2018

  • Jane Hunter with members of the Save Sydney Coalition

    Sydney community groups unite to fight 'greed-led' overdevelopment

  • 7878-csdb.tif Dutch dementia village, gated community called De Hogewejk in Weesp where people with dementia are cared for. Mrs. Margaretha Bos and her brother Mr. Bos.

    Hobart's 'museum of sex and death' to help design Australia's first dementia village

  • AUSTRALIA-AUTO-BUDGET<br>A dog sits in a Volkswagen Beetle as it drives on a road in Sydney on June 17, 2014. A record of over five billion USD will be spent this financial year to build and maintain New South Wales state roads and infrastucture, part of the new state budget media reported 17 June. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)

    Could allowing dogs on trains help ease Sydney's car crisis?

  • First Dog on ... cities!

    First Dog on the Moon's guide to Australia's urban stereotypes

11 April 2018

  • Joe’s Milk Bar on Arthurton Road in Northcote, Melbourne, has been closed for some years but has recently undergone some refurbishments. Abandoned milk bars are hotspots for graffiti and vandalism

    Suburbia gone sour: the melancholia of Melbourne's milk bars – in pictures

  • Aerial view of Sydney Olympic Stadium known as Allianz Stadium. Next to it is Sydney Cricket ground.

    Stadium wars: the comedy of errors behind Sydney's shiny new plans

  • Gold Coast at night.

    The Gold Coast: the sun-drenched sin city that wants to shine

  • a mural painted on the wall of Elizabeth shopping centre

    Holden on: can Adelaide shift gears after the loss of its car industry?

10 April 2018

  • Australian cities - liveable maps

    Too many cars, too few supermarkets: how Australia's cities really stack up

  • Adults-only … Hermitude perform at the Met, Brisbane, in 2015.

    Rock in a hard place: the decline of the all-ages music venue

  • Acacia Gardens, North-West Sydney, Aerial Photography<br>Orange and grey roofs in Sydney's suburbs. This aerial photograph is from a series about Sydney's urban sprawl. The series features the creation of new suburbs, plus infrastructure like roads, parks and power lines. Urban sprawl in Sydney is a contentious issue with opinions divided on the need for the city to expand to house more people, compared to problems of spreading infrastructure and transport too thinly over an increasing area. Housing affordability in Sydney has also become a critical issue with people being unable to afford housing even on the edges of the city.

    Boomburbs: Sydney's urban sprawl seen from above – in pictures

  • cafe in Sydney’s inner western suburbs

    The radical plan to split Sydney into three

9 April 2018

  • Sydney

    Housing incentives fail to ease Sydney's affordability crisis

  • An Australian white ibis forages for food in a garbage bin in Mitchell St in the Sydney suburb of Arncliffe.

    Bin chickens: the grotesque glory of the urban ibis – in pictures

  • The dispersal continues … residents pass the Block in Redfern, Sydney, which is slated for redevelopment.

    Indigenous people are being displaced again – by gentrification

    Jack Latimore
  • Busy city laneways, with cafes and graffitti, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    The struggle for Melbourne: has the world's 'most liveable' city lost its way?

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