This Month
Hemmes’ Club Rose Bay under review over beer garden saga
The pub king’s latest venue is winning patrons, but has also drawn the attention of the local council and NSW government. The neighbours aren’t happy either.
February
Hong Kong’s metro giant wants to help develop Sydney transport sites
MTR Corporation chief executive Jeny Yeung says running public transit systems and developing the land around stations makes it easier to be sustainable.
High-speed rail an expensive dream the NSW government won’t pay for
Anthony Albanese’s love of high-speed rail is colliding with indifference from the Minns Government and a new brand of NSW Labor fiscal conservatism
$75m sale shows the opportunity of Sydney Metro for downsizers
The harbour city’s new rail infrastructure is reshaping housing in the city and creating new spaces for wealthier owner-occupiers to live in.
December 2025
Lendlease to develop $2.2b tower above Hunter Street Sydney Metro
The commercial tower above the terminus of the city’s next heavy rail line gives a big boost to Lendlease’s Australian pipeline.
Wests Tigers’ tale of woe is a Sydney property disaster story
A forced merger, pokies, a casino, grand plans, NIMBY councillors and bad luck. The Wests Tigers’ travail is a property story through and through.
November 2025
Everything you need to know about Melbourne’s new Metro Rail
There’s a new train tunnel deep under Swanston Street. But it has a much wider significance for a fast-growing city.
September 2025
How chaos unfolded again for Australia’s most disaster-prone company
Is Optus underfunded by its Singaporean owners, incompetent or unlucky? The unfolding of its fatal Triple Zero outage suggests it is, at best, a slow learner.
Sydney Metro to probe exploitation claims against firms
Sydney Metro has launched an inquiry into allegations of worker exploitation and a corporate cover-up on the Western Sydney Airport metro project.
‘Pay to play’: Gangland kickback claims rock $26b road project
Daniel Salter wanted to find jobs for army veterans on Victoria’s North East Link project, but he couldn’t open the necessary doors – until he coughed up cash.
June 2025
Sydney’s architecture ambitions on show as face of the city changes
The integration of office space with the new underground rail line creates a national template for the way Australian cities can work.
March 2025
Hidden under Central Station lies a clock collector’s paradise
A secure chamber in the catacombs of the Sydney rail hub holds a decade-old collection of timepieces. It’s worth thousands – but rail bosses are unsure what to do with it.
February 2025
Meet Perceval, the robot dog who could inspect Metro tracks in Sydney
Sydney’s new Western Sydney Airport metro line could use a robot to inspect the cleanliness of trains and check rail tracks for faults.
Climate change means Australia has entered the ‘age of the engineer’
Increasing bouts of extreme weather have turbocharged already high demand for engineers across Australia, the incoming head of Aurecon says.
November 2024
ASX jumps; ANZ profits slip; Powell says Trump can’t fire him
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Sydney Metro’s boss learnt from London’s ‘failed experiment’
Peter Regan found out the hard way how to strike a good public-private partnership for transport.
October 2024
Macquarie’s new home is one to admire for its smarts
The investment banking and trading giant’s new office at 1 Elizabeth Street in Sydney brings building materials, and a metro station, to the fore.
September 2024
Dozens of flights cancelled as 100,000 residents without power
At least 26 domestic flights departing from Sydney Airport have been cancelled as residents in three states battle major power outages.
August 2024
Keep building ambition, says key architect behind Sydney Metro
UK-based John McAslan says Sydney Metro was a smoother ride than London’s recent Elizabeth Line.
How Sydney Metro’s architects made train stations people actually like
The “cathedrals of the 21st century” have united Sydney’s tastemakers and commuters, who marvelled at their new Metro line this week.
