Elizabeth Farrelly
@emfarrelly
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Writer, broadcaster, city-lover. Founder & presenter of The Sydneyist @eastside89.7FM. Founder & Director of https://t.co/PABkaNkEe2
Sydney
Joined March 2009
A Christmas miracle. Scott Rush is back home. Shame on the Federal Police but also, thank god. I hope his Dad is still alive!
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Trucks, utes and evs take note: "Every year, vehicles shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tiny flakes of plastic that accumulate in the soil, waterways, food and human urine....heavier vehicles, including evs, generate more microplastic particles."
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Truth, beauty, justice - how would they shape the city?
What is a city of beauty? Today the very concept is threatened by demagoguery, writes @emfarrelly.
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Demands of inter generational justice require that we listen to the kids, not only on #housing but on #ClimateCatastrophe . How is this not obvious? Kids see, know and fear far more than we think.
Have you listened to Small Voices Big Ideas? This week, they chatted with Better Cities founder @emfarrelly about the highs and lows of city living. A good reminder of the importance of hearing ALL voices in the city-making conversation. Have a listen!
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Truth and beauty? Que? My latest for The Saturday…
"Plato’s Republic described a city shaped by ideals – absolute beauty, truth and, above all, justice. This may seem absurd to us now, but maybe that’s why our cities are riven by ugliness, distrust and inequity," writes @emfarrelly.
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Culture wars in housing; A housing crisis and the battle between millennials and boomers via @ABCaustralia
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@nessiejones22 @PhilipThalis @peter_tulip The truth is nothing will improve housing equity until we act decisively to dampen the culture of speculation. Negative gearing and CGT exemptions are deliberate dog-eat-dog mechanisms designed to enrich the rich and impoverish the rest. Can hardly be surprised that this results!
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@PaulineHansonOz "generally unreliable, argumentative and unwilling to accept obvious truths." After the shame of the Voice failure, a small uptick for Australia in finding Hanson to be racist, derogatoring and "othering."
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@BarnumLives Good question! Not sure where it sits now. Should ask my mate Luke Sciberras, one of the trustees…?
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The awful entrances: entrances ought to entrance. Why are they mostly so bloody awful? My latest for AAU...
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