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.
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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).
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.
The way you swim reveals who you are
In or out of the water, for some it's the same old tale of entitlement.
Why I will never buy a new apartment in Sydney
Far too often shoddy, infuriating, ugly and dangerous, they're the very opposite of sustainable density.
Our fight to the death with nature is not one we can win
The tussle between "I" and "we" underpins everything humans do on Earth.
Is it the time of the warm, feminist city?
Cities, feminism and the 5 million. Last week's anti-Trump Women's Marches drew over a million marchers in the US and almost 5 million worldwide; 750,000 in LA; 10,000 in Sydney; 673 cities globally; no arrests. The monstrous regiment made itself serenely, urbanely felt. What, if anything, does this mean for our first conservative female Premier?
If you're thinking of living in a container, you're not
So we're at this soiree and yet another rich young bloke is telling me how he wants to build a container house in the country. I make an emergency bathroom dash to poke my eyes out in private. Should I tell him how much I would never, not ever, live in a container?
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