Waverly’s 2025 Brightest & Best Business Awards

Entries are now open for the 2025 Brightest & Best Business Awards! Waverly Council’s Brightest & Best Business Awards are back again this year to celebrate the community’s innovation and resilience as well as the achievements of businesses across the area! With 15 unique award categories to choose from, there’s a category for every business […]

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Grief is the Thing with Feathers – A Poetic Meditation on Loss and Healing

Based on the novel by Max PorterAdapted for the stage by Simon Phillips, Nick Schlieper & Toby SchmitzDirected by Simon Phillips Two young boys fall back on their imaginations as they grapple with their mother’s sudden death. Their father has the soul of a poet but can only see a future of platitudes and loneliness. […]

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Breaking Waves, Episode 220

On this episode of Breaking Waves, Alex and Jules are joined by Melbourne contemporary artist Gabi Scott! They discuss the importance of privacy, male and female friendships, and mental health. Not only that, but Gabi talks about her travels this year as well as the challenges that come with navigating family dynamics whilst on holidays! […]

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Abbie Galvin Government Architect

At long last New South Wales has a female Government Architect. At the same time, the Government Architect’s role has gone from making buildings, like the GPO on Martin Place, to offering Ministerial advice. As Government Architect, Abbie Galvin has promoted Design with Country, low-rise mixed-use development and is generating the much-debated NSW Pattern Book. Abbie Galvin joins Elizabeth Farrelly on The Sydneyist podcast to […]

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Breaking Waves, Episode 201

Today Riley and John talk about simplicity. Riley and John unpack how the word ‘Simple’ varies in definition for everyone and how the word can be used as a noun and as a verb. They discuss how they would define ‘a simple life’ and if they’ve ever been called simple. Don’t miss out on this […]

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Scallywag Showtunes – S2 Ep7

‘Ello! We are Arfur and Charlie Chimbley, the Chimbley Bruvvers, esquire, at your service, here to entertain you with our humorous and delightful cockney banter. In our new segment, Scallywag Showtunes, airing during Virginia Lowe and Eric Gyore’s Wednesday Drive show, we will hexplore in hexcruciating detail (but with our trademark cheeky repartee), all fings […]

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Samara Joy headlines 2025 Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival!

American breakout star and multi-GRAMMY Award-winning vocal sensation, Samara Joy, will be headlining the 2025 Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival on her debut Australian tour this October! Samara is set to amaze with her performances at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre (Penrith) at 8 PM on Thursday (23rd October) and City Recital Hall – […]

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Are we ready for Slums?

How desperate are we? Is Sydney ready for the mass rollout of tiny, sunless apartments, as recommended by the Productivity Commissioner? On this episode of The Sydneyist podcast from 2024, Elizabeth Farrelly is joined by Sue Weatherley MPIA (Fellow) and President of the NSW Planning Institute of Australia, about whether sunless apartments will help solve […]

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