Lord Mayor Clover Moore said it would have been unreasonable to test the city’s 400 parks and thousands of garden beds “when there was no indication there was an issue”.
The City of Sydney pulled the pin on holding the popular event in Victoria Park after bonded asbestos was found in mulch used at the site.
Councillors have been accused of alienating members of the queer community.
Timothy “Skip” Blofield,from leftist queer group Pride in Protest,was dumped from the board after skipping too many meetings.
The Powerhouse Museum has hand-picked 1001 objects from its collection of more than half a million items to create an exhibition of Australian icons.
Betty Hounslow was active in the Drop the Charges campaign following arrests at the prelude to the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Satirist and activist Fabian LoSchiavo was active at the dawn of gay rights protests in Sydney.
Other proposed Allianz Stadium changes would allow concert rehearsals and sound testing to go longer into the night and increase the maximum allowed concert length.
Sydney man Hamdi Alqudsi led a group known as the Shura which plotted a series of attacks across the city,including bombings.
The moral of the story? Be true to yourself – better latent than never.
By any measure,Sydney has got its mojo back. But after years of COVID restrictions,can our city keep the momentum going? And,more pressingly,what comes next?