Elizabeth Farrelly
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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How can libraries improve our lives? Do they even need books?
The book-free library emerged as yoga and playgroups encroached. Now there’s hope in buildings that offer flavour, style, comfort and, above all, books. → Read More
What drives Judith Neilson? Inside an astonishing Sydney art empire
A Chinese art gallery was just the start for the Sydney art lover committed to making the world, and the inner-city suburb of Chippendale, a better place. → Read More
Are the cabbies correct? Which Chau Chak Wing building is the star?
Is it the "scrunched-up paper bag" building at UTS or Sydney Uni's bunker-like museum the better piece of architecture? → Read More
Central Park v Barangaroo: which one triumphs and why?
Two attention-grabbing developments have changed the face of inner Sydney. Why is one more powerful than the other? → Read More
Ours for eternity? Saving the home of artist Martin Sharp
Endless meetings with arts honchos have produced plenty of goodwill but no tangible way to preserve the Bellevue Hill home and studio of the celebrated artist. → Read More
Survival-by-respect or death-by-stupid: your choice Straya
This is the country's moment of reckoning. It’s time we lost the attitude and made a clear, rational and collective decision on what it means to be Australian. → Read More
My children were threatened and I just wanted them out
But the stay option in the face of fire has more going for it than you might first think. → Read More
'Bizarre, unconscionable': We're about to legitimise Folau's madness
A 21st century, new-world culture is preparing statutes to defend talk of eternal damnation. → Read More
Winner takes all: how private schools make everyone nastier
Unless we want a rich-poor apartheid, we need to stop giving the fat little piggies in private schools such a hefty, gold-plated leg up. → Read More
Embarrassment of riches out of place in art gallery
My objection to the NGA's new Cartier exhibition is not that a handful of these overvalued rocks could feed Africa for a century. It’s not the elitism I mind, so much as its misuse, and our obsequious acceptance of that as art. → Read More
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The lie that is sucking the life out of Sydney
There’s no trickle-down. Trickle-down was always a lie. There’s just trickle-up. → Read More
The lie that is sucking the life out of Sydney
There’s no trickle-down. That was always a lie. There’s just trickle-up. → Read More
National News Headlines
Read the latest and breaking National News from all around Australia. → Read More
Science's new toy should scare us all
You’ll be pressured to pay for your unborn kid to have its Alzheimer's, breast cancer or cystic fibrosis gene removed before birth. → Read More
Science's new toy should scare us all
You’ll be pressured to pay for your unborn kid to have its Alzheimer's, breast cancer or cystic fibrosis gene removed before birth. → Read More
The six things I would ban if I had a magic wand
The urge to out-do nature is a common thread in all my prohibitions. → Read More
Don't forget first principles in rushing to #MeToo
I profoundly disagree with the urge to silence dissent. The minute we limit who can speak according to what they might say, it's all over. → Read More
Gender equality: it takes a troubled woman to change a troubled world
Men are increasingly proving themselves incapable of taking the world where it needs to go. Never has the need for imaginative female leadership been so urgent. → Read More
Hot cross buns so near Christmas is metaphor for all that's wrong with Australia
Barefoot and saronged, still reeling from Christmas, I stared at the mounded tables of plastic-wrapped heresy. This, I thought, is exactly how we treat our landscape. Letting everything bleed into everything else, this is the very definition of pollution. → Read More