The Redfern I loved has changed beyond recognition
In the 19 years I've lived there, virtually all of old Redfern has succumbed to a tsunami of smashed avocado and man-buns.
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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 (Practice) at the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses’, 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness’ and ‘Caro Was Here’, crime fiction for children (2014).
Why has Australian modesty become a lost virtue?
Even now, despite everything, we consider ourselves the good guys. Perhaps it's a universal human conceit: all of us heroes in our own movie. Yet there is irony here.
Why Easter is better in the southern hemisphere
Western culture has devoted a lot to abolishing shadow: pain, depth and mystery.
The public sell-off that's a step too far
As neo-liberal attacks on civilisation get crazier, as we scrape ever lower in the barrel of saleable public assets, it becomes clear that Bernie Sanders had a point. Socialism, in some form or other, must return. Future generations will be forced to re-nationalise.
How the public can reclaim the housing industry
It's as though we've forgotten anything matters to us, other than money.
The real politics of envy isn't about wealth
Elizabeth Farrelly: What I envy is cities with imagination and principle at the helm. It's wisdom-envy. Governance envy.
We need independents in politics more than ever
Ted Mack, one of Australia's most revered and beloved politicians, was the real, incorruptible thing.
I've always loved Sydney, but I'm starting to fear the marriage is over
I've never thought you can half-leave a marriage, although many do. For me, you're in or you're out – and maybe, I'm starting to think, it's the same with Sydney.
Blame Warhol, the man who paved the way for Trump
When it came to the truth department, Warhol didn't give a hoot.
The three misbeliefs that push families to up-end their lives
Ranking education, and ranked education, is rank nonsense.
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