Series
Stranded Sydney
While parts of Sydney have taken thousands of new homes, the roads, transport, schools, hospitals and leisure space people need are sorely missing.
The Rajs bought into the Australian dream. It came with a nightmare
Sydney’s fringe suburbs are at breaking point, with traffic and roads the first tests of residents’ patience each day.
- Anthony Segaert
From 119 students to 1445 in five years: The Sydney suburb that exploded before schools arrived
The Mangat family bought into a suburb promised four public schools. That didn’t happen.
- Ellie Busby
‘The health system will kill me before the cancer does’
Manwell Cini’s excruciating wait in a Sydney emergency department underscores what happens when new hospitals and hospital beds lag population growth.
- Mostafa Rachwani
The Sydney suburb with 15,841 residents where children play on the roads
In Sydney’s growth suburbs, councils struggle to provide parks, libraries and pools – and there’s a good reason why.
- Ellie Busby and Mostafa Rachwani
Sydney is full of poorly designed new suburbs. This is how two got it right
Urban sprawl isn’t new to Sydney – but planning new suburbs properly is rare.
- Anthony Segaert, Ellie Busby and Mostafa Rachwani
- Editorial
New postcodes, old problems: The repeated failure of Sydney’s growth
This week, the Herald is examining our city’s infrastructure deserts in a series entitled Stranded Sydney – and what can be done about the problem.
- The Herald's View
Other series
Life in the burbs
We’re celebrating Sydney’s suburbs and local writers have been penning pieces about the neighbourhoods they know best. Read all their stories here.
- 8 stories
Australia’s baby bust
The fertility rate in Australia is at a record low. We explore why we’re having fewer babies – and what that means for the country’s future.
- 15 stories