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24/07/2025

The Oxford St Cycleway opens tomorrow

24/07/2025

If you missed TheSydneyist tonight on Eastside Radio 89.7FM with artist Nick Hollo it’s now available as a podcast that you can stream on demand here:

https://eastsidefm.org/episodes/1753344000/

THE BONDI TO MANLY WALK

Nick Hollo is an architect who worked for 15 years with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, turning Cockatoo Island naval dockyards into an art destination.

He’s also an established artist, widely known and loved for his images of Sydney coastline in all its many moods. In the end, he says, he loves to paint the effect of light on water. Our light, our water.

Now, as a member of the Walking Volunteers, he has created and curated this latest exhibition at the Dickerson Gallery to celebrate the astonishing public gift of the 80km Bondi to Manly walk view here Nick joins us on The Sydneyist to chat about the magic of walking near Sydney harbour and the passion-skill involved in capturing Sydney light on water on paper.

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24/07/2025

If you would like to see Nick Hollo's exhibition visit:
Dickerson Gallery
17th July – 10th Aug 2025

https://dickersongallery.com.au/gallery-artists/nick-hollo/

24/07/2025

We are live in Studio C with artist Nick Hollo talking about his exhibition which features vantage points from the Bondi to Manly walk.

24/07/2025

The Sydneyist podcast is now available on Youtube!

Sydney is changing faster than ever but questions as to how it is changing - and how it should change - are seldom addressed. Are skyscrapers the best way to...

23/07/2025

On this episode of The Sydneyist podcast Elizabeth Farrelly is joined by Emeritus Professor Simon Rice

Listen here:
https://eastsidefm.org/podcast/your-rights-to-protest-in-sydney/

IS NSW COURTING TOTALITARIANISM?

Many of our cultural advances have arisen through protest.
Mass demonstrations have changed attitudes to war, racism, land rights and feminism.
In theory, peaceful public protest is core democracy.

Yet NSW, unlike Victoria, Queensland and the ACT, has no express right to protest.
Peaceful demonstrators here can now be jailed for merely climbing on a building
or structure
or blocking a main road.

Emeritus Professor Simon Rice is an expert in protest law
who last year successfully sued the state
for his rough and wrongful arrest during a peaceful campus protest.

Join Elizabeth Farrelly in conversation with Professor Rice
as they discuss WHY PROTEST MATTERS and how the law should be changed to enable it.



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In NSW, unlike Queensland, Victoria and the ACT, there is no right to protest, protests must be approved by police and you can be jailed for climbing on ‘a s...

22/07/2025

This week on The Sydneyist:

NICK HOLLO
THE BONDI TO MANLY WALK
Nick Hollo is an architect

who worked for 15 years with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust,

turning Cockatoo Island naval dockyards
into an art destination.

He’s also an established artist, widely known and loved for his images of Sydney coastline in all its many moods.
In the end, he says, he loves to paint the effect of light on water.
Our light, our water.

Now, as a member of the Walking Volunteers,
he has created and curated this latest exhibition at the Dickerson Gallery to celebrate

the astonishing public gift of the 80km Bondi to Manly walk view here

NICK HOLLO
joins Elizabeth Farrelly this Thursday on

The Sydneyist
to chat about the magic of walking near Sydney harbour and
the passion-skill involved in capturing
Sydney light on water
on paper.

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6pm Thursday 24th July 2025

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21/07/2025

How Sydney transport could be improved... take some notes from 1947

The Sydney Tram Network in 1947.

17/07/2025

If you missed The Sydneyist tonight on Eastside Radio 89.7FM with Former Assistant NSW Government Architect Andrew Andersons it’s now available as a podcast that you can stream on demand here:

https://eastsidefm.org/episodes/1752739200/

Sydney’s first Skyscraper

The first AMP building at Circular Quay was designed by Graham Thorp, of Peddle Thorp and Walker and opened by the Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies in 1962.

The first building to breach the statutory 150-foot height limit, it was elegant, self-possessed and remarkably prescient, being cooled by seawater. Now it has been fully, glamorously refurbished.

Former Assistant NSW Government Architect ANDREW ANDERSONS knew and admired Graham Thorp, later became a partner in Peddle Thorp and Walker and is a walking encyclopaedia on all things Sydney. Andrew joins Elizabeth Farrelly this week on The Sydneyist to discuss the building, its significance in marking Sydney’s coming of age and its recent refurbishment.

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16/07/2025

Parking in the Eastern Suburbs during summer is a nightmare but what is the solution?

Provide your feedback on the Resident Parking Scheme.

16/07/2025