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Yvonne Weldon has already made history. Now she’s out to shake up Sydney’s mayoral race
August 01, 2024
Yvonne Weldon’s two-year-old grandson told his friends “that’s my nin” when he saw her face on a corflute outside his Paddington preschool. That was in 2021, just weeks before Weldon’s election as the first Aboriginal councillor for the City of Sydney in its 180-year history. “If...
Read MoreYvonne Weldon announces candidacy for City of Sydney’s next Mayor
August 01, 2024
Thursday August 1st 2024. “Three years ago, we made history when I was elected as the City of Sydney’s first Aboriginal councillor. Today, I’m announcing that I’m running to be Sydney’s next Mayor” “My vision is for a vibrant and inclusive city humming with...
Read More‘This is urgent’: Sydney council faces growing stink as bins, dumped rubbish pile up
February 01, 2023
Megan Gorrey February 1, 2023 The City of Sydney has blamed worker shortages, industrial action and the lingering effects of COVID-19 for overflowing bins and dumped rubbish piling up on streets as anger and frustration among residents grow. Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s council is...
Read MoreCalls for ‘Rat Tsar’ to fight Sydney City’s ‘alarming’ public health menace
January 25, 2023
Calls have begun for Sydney to follow New York’s lead and hire a ‘bloodthirsty’ top ratcatcher to combat a growing infestation, as the rodent population explodes on our city’s streets. January 25, 2023 Clarissa Bye Sydney needs a “Rat Tsar” just like New York...
Read MoreNew plan to acknowledge Sydney’s Stolen Generation past
September 03, 2022
Indigenous kids stolen and shipped off to white families will be acknowledged in plans for the new Central Station in a bid to shine a light on the railway’s dark past. It’s the dark history of Sydney’s rail network many would rather forget, but...
Read MoreSydney Council's rejection of Patyegarang statue labelled 'atrocious'
August 24, 2022
From Captain Cook, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Queen Victoria and her dog, there are 25 statues of colonial figures in Sydney's CBD. Yet there's not a single statue commemorating an Aboriginal person. The City of Sydney Council has rejected an Indigenous councillor’s calls for a...
Read MoreThe tender love story that should be on every book club’s list
August 05, 2022
Describing Sixty-Seven Days as a romance doesn’t do this book justice. Yvonne Weldon’s protagonist, Evie, is of Wiradjuri heritage, living the complex life of a young Indigenous woman in Redfern in the last decade of the 20th century. Bog-standard basic genre romances are claustrophobic, always about...
Read MoreYvonne Weldon’s debut novel is a love story that transcends time and space
July 12, 2022
Yvonne Weldon can now add ‘fiction author’ to her list of incredible feats, with her debut novel “Sixty-Seven Days” released in bookstores across the country this month.But the novel, which won the Queensland Literary Awards David Unaipon Unpublished Manuscript in 2016, didn’t start off as a...
Read MoreRubbish collection crisis seeing bins left piled up across Sydney
June 29, 2022
Sydney’s metropolitan area is in the grip of a rubbish crisis, with urgent meetings being held to bolster the city’s waste collection workforce as bins pile up. Sydney is in the midst of a “garbage collection crisis”, with the City’s CEO to urgently meet...
Read MoreIndigenous leader's simple solution to 'baffling' Sydney Harbour Bridge Aboriginal flagpole cost
June 22, 2022
An Indigenous Sydney councillor has called for the Aboriginal flag to replace the NSW flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as criticism grows over the $25 million price tag to erect a third flagpole.Outrage over the price tag revealed this month has attracted criticism...
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