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On Saturday October 27 Prince Alfred Park will play host to the annual Surry Hills Festival, a music, arts and cultural extravaganza expected to draw a crowd of over 90,000. The festival is a celebration of the diverse and creative local community, …

The votes are counted and The Greens are the biggest losers from the recent local council elections in Waverley. Independents have also missed out, resulting in an outright Liberal majority on the council. Prior to the September 8 election, the Liberals had …

The Green Isle, sitting pretty on the edge of Europe just a skip, hop and jump away from a market of half a billion people, is proving an attractive location for Australian businesses writes Anne Lillis. Similar in size to Tasmania with …

For many Americans belief in the right to bear arms still prevails amidst controversy in the wake of three recent fatal shootings, writes Todd Holbrook in Phoenix Arizona. Even in light of the Colorado Aurora movie theatre massacre in July and the …

  This is not your typical Facebook status: “Offer: Maria from Vaucluse has litres of frozen breastmilk. PM her if interested.” The proposition: “Lauren in Matiland has 600mls to donate,” is not a post which pops up on most Facebook news feeds …

Andres Mejia still remembers the day when he arrived in Sydney in 2005, with just AUS $1200 and a lot of uncertainly about his future. “Now those days seem like a dream,” he said. Although Andres did not have money to spend …

It is the stuff of legend. In the red dust and heat of Western Australia’s Pilbara region, on the other side of the continent to their homelands and seas, a gang of Torres Strait Islanders didn’t just break the record time for …

I’ve never been much of a technophile but there I am standing outside the café, smartphone in hand, waiting to meet a friend for a breakfast arranged by text in response to an email that was confirmed by way of a Facebook …

When Tasmanian Mary Elizabeth Donaldson married the Danish Crown Prince Frederik – son of  Danish queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik –  in the Copenhagen Cathedral on May 14, 2004 they were showered with presents of every kind. Even a tram from Melbourne where Mary had at one …

The local Islander name for a small bird seen as a symbol of impending good weather has been chosen as the name of the first vessel in a planned fleet of seven ranger boats to be deployed across the Torres Strait. The …