Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. A former editor and Sydney City Councilor, she is also Associate-Professor of Urbanism at the University of New South Wales. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses’, 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness’ and ‘Caro Was Here’, crime fiction for children (2014).
Attention, Minister: here are five things that will improve our cities
Elizabeth Farrelly We have the world's most urban culture but still we see ourselves as red-dirters, outbackers, bushies. Perhaps this is why we still cannot shape our cities with intelligence.
The class struggle farmers can’t afford to lose
Elizabeth Farrelly Now that the squattocracy has joined the fight against international mega-mines, there's hope.
It's time for a new Australian flag, one we can be proud of
Elizabeth Farrelly Malcolm must feel like a castle under siege right now, the air thick with eleventy zillion arrows of advice on what exactly "21st century government" implies. So, uh, here's mine.
The she-god needed to tackle ingrained sexism
Elizabeth Farrelly How much time do we have to give change? Two life times... since the Pankhursts. Women are still punished for precisely those qualities that are in men rewarded.
Concrete gods take on the odds as city vibe heralds changes of the century
Elizabeth Farrelly More roads and their consequences signal our city's would-be gods have feet of clay when it comes to forward planning.
Style wins out over Paleo anytime
Elizabeth Farrelly Without the yearning and the dreaming and even the domineering, protein is just plain boring.
Greens and Nats - a marriage made in heaven
Elizabeth Farrelly If we want to keep our hand in the overflowing picnic basket, we may need to rethink not just farming and land use, but also the political map.
Two degrees or four? It's a personal choice for survival in the near future
Elizabeth Farrelly Complacency is so tempting. We think climate change is mostly about poor people in distant countries. But make no mistake. We will still suffer.
You want a dirty weekend? Get real
Elizabeth Farrelly The dirty weekend isn't necessarily dirty, and isn't necessarily a weekend. But it surprises me that the good (or even halfway decent) dirty weekender is so hard to find, especially if you start from...
We've lost our inner larrikin and bland is the result
Elizabeth Farrelly Australians. We flatter ourselves as larrikins, carousing like noble loons across the culture-scape but, actually, we're tame as.
Why eight inch heels are good for you
Elizabeth Farrelly This is a story about eight-inch heels, family bibles, cross-dressing and (just maybe) why women live longer than the other persuasion.
Links between gut and mental health suggest we should squat when going to loo
Elizabeth Farrelly An unhappy gut may make you depressed or even bipolar.
Berry, NSW now has a motorway but has lost its character
Elizabeth Farrelly I know what you will say. It's a disgrace for a global city to have main highways that regularly slow to snail's pace. But is it, actually?
Logic out as gay marriage debate goes back to the future
Elizabeth Farrelly Those who want to take Australia back to the supposedly idyllic 1950s ignore 70 years of social progress.
Native title yes, but still no land rights
Elizabeth Farrelly Sacred land must not be dug up and our constitution and laws should assure that.
Q&A; episode another outburst of government creep
Elizabeth Farrelly State control and ministerial discretion are shaping our lives in a way that, even a decade ago, was unthinkable.
The online sexual double standard snaring young women
Elizabeth Farrelly "It's only … I have a piano," muses Bathsheba Everdene, having given the marriage proposal her full consideration. "And I have my own farm, and I have no need for a husband."
Windmills can’t blow away a love of the land
Elizabeth Farrelly No doubt it's funny, in a bleak and windswept kind of way. Tony Abbott, proudly philistine leader of a proudly philistine country, makes world news by declaring war on renewables for reasons of, you...
The sound of silence stifles our freedom
Elizabeth Farrelly So you think you're free to speak your mind? Think again. We are, all of us, increasingly bubble-wrapped in the sounds of silence.
Tango for two of government, developers lock the public out
Elizabeth Farrelly To understand NSW planning, see it as an exercise in parenting, with developers as the two-year-olds.
