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Kim Aris on a visit to Sydney; Aung San Suu Kyi in Sydney in 2013.

Kim wants to know if his mum is alive. It’s not easy for the son of Suu Kyi

The pro-democracy icon has been detained by a secretive, brutal junta that has waged war against its own citizens since February 2021. Her younger son is demanding answers.

  • Michael Ruffles

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has its sights on western Sydney, but what do the voters think?

Can One Nation actually win in western Sydney?

It has a reputation as a political battleground and Pauline Hanson’s party is coming for it.

  • Mostafa Rachwani and Cindy Yin
In Austral, promised parks and playgrounds have not been delivered, despite locals calling for more green space.

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
The town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, Ireland, where Blacktown City Council will visit in August.

A Sydney council will spend $42,000 on a trip to Ireland

Cash-strapped Blacktown Council is a “massive fan” of sister cities and Gaelic football – and their ratepayers are footing the bill.

  • Ellie Busby
The 200-odd revellers were forced to lay face down on the ground during the operation.

Police gatecrash bikie clubhouse party in Sydney

The party at the Mongols’ clubhouse ended early after heavily armed police forced bikies to lie on the ground and turn over alcohol, drugs and cash.

  • Perry Duffin
Traffic numbers have surged in Eastern Creek after the shopping complex opened last month.

The $150m shopping centre strangling a Sydney suburb’s streets

A new shopping complex is at the centre of a bitter neighbourhood dispute over a parking policy that residents say has caused a “dog’s dinner” in their suburb.

  • David Barwell
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You may not have heard of her, but this ‘Polynesian kid’ has millions of listeners

RISSA is among the children of migrants who grew up listening to ’90s R&B, hip-hop and gospel music and are now creating a fresh western Sydney sound.

  • Kayla Olaya and Audrey Richardson
The NSW Environment Protection Authority has issued a clean-up notice to Transport for NSW following investigations into the illegal storage of waste on a property in Shanes Park

Sydney’s $2.5m taxpayer-owned property that’s become a graveyard for waste

Abandoned tyres, solar panels, trucks, demolition waste and shipping containers are among items scattered across the property.

  • David Barwell
Blacktown City Council took builders to the Supreme Court over defects which emerged after the construction of the Tennis Centre in Stanhope.

The $5 million court battle over a defective Sydney tennis centre

A stoush between a council and builders over defects emerging in a sports facility has found its way to the Supreme Court.

  • Cindy Yin
The Blacktown City Council building that the council is currently leasing back from developer Walker.

The Sydney council that sold its offices to spend the next decade renting them back

Blacktown City Council’s new offices were originally costed at $144 million. Now the project will cost $605 million and the council is running out of cash.

  • Ellie Busby and Anthony Segaert