On your marks, get set, go! Sydney is gearing up for the city’s history-making marathon where up to 40,000 runners will take to the streets across several events for the Sydney Marathon on Sunday 17 September. There will be major road closures from North Sydney to Moore Park between 3.30am and 3pm. A record …
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Sydney bus drivers wanted: Job that pays $100,000 – no-one wants to do it and it’s making you VERY late
Driving a bus in Sydney pays up to $100,000 a year – so why does hardly anyone want to do it? Transport for NSW currently needs 370 bus drivers across all parts of Sydney and a further 10 regional areas, with some job adverts also offering bonuses of up to $6,000 just to start work. …
Federal government expands pelvic pain clinics into Adelaide and Western Sydney
New clinics to treat pelvic pain and endometriosis are being opened in Adelaide and Western Sydney as the federal government expands a trial to improve access to treatment. Key points: The government has been under pressure to open clinics in Adelaide and Western Sydney In March, 20 clinics were opened as part of a …
Five unanswered questions in the mystery boat voyage after art expert died off Sydney Harbor – and tech guru remains missing presumed dead
The ill-fated boat trip off Sydney Harbor which led to the death of a high-profile art expert and presumed death of a tech guru has raised several questions that remain unanswered. No explanation is at hand for why Andrew Findlay, 51, and Indigenous art dealer Tim Klingender, 59, went out fishing in dangerous seas at …
Virginia Woolf’s copy of debut novel The Voyage Out featuring handwritten notes rediscovered and digitized by University of Sydney
How do great authors begin? In 1907, aged 25, Virginia Woolf embarked on her first novel: an epic journey that would ultimately span more than a decade and several mental breakdowns and influential relationships, with multiple drafts before its publication in 1915 and then subsequent revisions. The result was The Voyage Out: The tale of …
In 2033, connecting London and Sydney could take just 2 hours
According to British researchers, the development of space tourism could experience a marked acceleration in the next decade. Within 10 years, suborbital flights will compete with air travel and drastically reduce travel times. You still have to bear the journey. It is one of the longest journeys in the world. Today, it takes an average …