Oyster saloons,pub Thai and white wine in the sun:190 years of Sydney dining

Oyster saloons,pub Thai and white wine in the sun:190 years of Sydney dining

Presented with the chance to move to Sydney in 1994,Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix thought:“Why would you not do that?”

  • byMichael Koziol andCallan Boys

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A week to remember

A week to remember

We wanted to show just how far we had come and make a statement of strength about where we are going.

  • byLisa Davies
Scandals and scoops:How gossip columns have changed our city

Scandals and scoops:How gossip columns have changed our city

Just about every cracking journalism story – from politics to football – usually starts with loose lips spilling the beans on something someone powerful doesn’t want you to know.

  • byAndrew Hornery
When a room of one’s own turns out to be in Redfern. Not New York

When a room of one’s own turns out to be in Redfern. Not New York

I thought that if I stayed in Sydney I would never be a great writer. But I have discovered there is no place like home.

  • byJessie Tu
Don’t look back:the year the world was finally wowed by our culture
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Don’t look back:the year the world was finally wowed by our culture

In 1973 our artists had begun establishing an Australian identity. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the world gasped at our Opera House.

  • byAnne Summers
How we moved from convict brutality to songs around the piano

How we moved from convict brutality to songs around the piano

A cast of convicts performed Australia’s first play at Sydney Cove in 1789. But by the end of the 19th century the heart of entertainment was in the home.

  • byThomas Keneally
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‘What can you expect from the sons of convicts?’ The rise of Australian sport

‘What can you expect from the sons of convicts?’ The rise of Australian sport

While Melbourne claims to be the centre of the sporting world,Sydney has shaped Australian sport. And the Herald has been there to cover it all.

  • byMalcolm Knox
Locked stationery cupboards and other memories of the relatively recent past
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Locked stationery cupboards and other memories of the relatively recent past

If the Sydney Morning Herald is 190,then I’ve been writing for it for a fifth of its life.

  • byRichard Glover
How an artist with a dream brought Dolly Parton - or her likeness - to the Opera House

How an artist with a dream brought Dolly Parton - or her likeness - to the Opera House

The work of six Indigenous female artists will grace the sails of the Sydney Opera House tonight,which will be illuminated for the first time tonight since the pandemic began.

  • byHelen Pitt
Sydney celebrates 190 years of the Herald

Sydney celebrates 190 years of the Herald

Editor Lisa Davies celebrated the Herald’s contribution to the national debate over almost two centuries and “our unwavering commitment to pursuing the stories that matter to our readers”.

  • bySamantha Hutchinson,Zoe Samios andStephen Brook
The one building that put Sydney on the world map

The one building that put Sydney on the world map

The Sydney Morning Herald played a huge part in the story of our international icon,the Sydney Opera House.

  • byHelen Pitt