9 May 2024

Developer oriented development only worsens the housing crisis

A lobby group representing the $600 billion property industry is determining state housing policy in NSW.

5 December 2023

Sydney YIMBY and the weaponising of heritage

I live in the inner west/southwest of Sydney, traditional lands of the Gadigal, Wangal and Darug-speaking peoples. Our built heritage traces the areas development and amplifies its desirability, economic viability, and peoples quality of life. According to Time Out, Marrickville and Enmore are some of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world.

12 September 2023

A commuters rebuttal to the shuttle, or why the Bankstown metro is a mistake

There is little to celebrate in the Minns government commitment to the conversion of the Bankstown line to a metro basically a train to nowhere but high-rise hell. Opposition to it from locals and community groups was dismissed by the greedy and the aspirational as NIMBYism, but our reasons lie in its genesis, and the dishonesty and ideology that progressed it.