by Rachel Franks | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog, Entries
John Rae is, perhaps, my favourite dead white male. On the surface, he’s really rather ordinary. An administrator who was meticulous and ambitious, he was a career public servant. He woke up, got dressed, went to work and came home again. He married and had six...
by Minna Muhlen-Schulte | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog
Last week Australia and New Zealand won their joint bid to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup on Friday, prompting us to think across codes about some other legendary women football players in Sydney who played their first game almost 100 years ago. As the...
by Lisa Murray | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
You know, we often take Sydney Town Hall for granted. It’s undeniably a city landmark – we sit on its steps and watch the world go by, use it as a meeting place, and it has given its name to a train station – but it is also a very special building....
by Mark Dunn | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog
With Sydney surrounded by mountains on three out of four sides, getting out of the city area has, until fairly recently, been tricky. This was particularly the case in the colonial period. In the west the Blue Mountains were viewed as an almost impenetrable barrier by...
by Minna Muhlen-Schulte | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
St Barnabas’ Anglican Church on Broadway, affectionately known as Barney’s, has catered to congregations of all sorts since it was established in the mid-nineteenth century. Listen to Minna and Alex on 2SER here Positioned between Chippendale and Ultimo,...
