1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (750+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Point Piper local John Changjin Li has long relied upon highly complex corporate structures – and romantic arrangements – in order to call one of the Sydney’s most expensive houses his own, and that was before the appointment of liquidators further…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (495+ words) September 9, 2026 — 7:45pm High-end materials, custom design, thoughtful floor plans, architectural lighting, landscaped gardens, functionality and enviable locations: there are many reasons designer luxury homes are impressive. Here are five of our favourites for sale now. From its position on a prized…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (535+ words) September 8, 2026 — 5:00pm Architect Peter Mould helped shape Sydney as we know it today. Through his leadership, judgment and advocacy as NSW government architect, he influenced the design of many of the places that Sydneysiders experience daily from Circular Quay and George…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (667+ words) Brisbane is on the march. Growing to the north, south and westwards. But there’s one side of the city where geography puts a stop to the sprawl, and that’s at Wynnum – the waters of Moreton Bay providing a natural barrier....

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (598+ words) September 7, 2026 — 5:05am Four concrete slabs languishing beside Parramatta Road in Sydney’s inner west will be transformed with hundreds of new apartments, under a Minns government plan to use surplus land for housing. The proposal would deliver 340 homes – 30 per cent of which…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (753+ words) With or without chief executive Lisa Havilah, the challenges facing the Powerhouse Parramatta are numerous. In the early hours of September 22, 1882, a catastrophic inferno consumed the Garden Palace in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden. Within 40 minutes, its vast timber frame had…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (180+ words) SMH.com.au Peter Miniutti writes of the challenges of detecting cheating in HSC assessments (Letters, September 2). But surely it should be encouraged. Could there be any greater passport to success in the contemporary corporate world than the ability to…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (550+ words) August 31, 2026 — 4:50pm NSW Arts Minister John Graham certainly hit the nail on the head when he told a parliamentary budget estimates committee on Monday that the Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta was “the Opera House of the west”. He was speaking of…...