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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 10h

The car was attempting to park was it? All on its own? Amazing!

Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm becoming increasingly radicalised against this project. Not the concept of a square so much, but definitely this implementation. Can you really have a European-style square without umbrellas, tables and the ability to buy a beer or wine?

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

City of Sydney can't be serious with this proposal. These deserve at best a plaque, after they've been demolished and replaced by desperately needed housing for people.

This former baby health centre is a surviving example of a facility designed by the City of Sydney. It provides evidence of efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families in our local area.

This former kindergarten is a representative example of the kindergartens designed by the City of Sydney after World War 2. It reflects the expansion of community facilities and services during this period.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But aside from that, it's the right thing to do. There are rezonings happening all over Sydney in a bid to fix the last 30+ years of planning failures. No reason why the eastern suburbs should get a pass on that

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not sure I'd put much stock in Farrelly or her followers. Always talks about supporting density, but never actually supports real proposals to densify. The political reality is there's no downside to this for the state govt. It's not like they're worried about losing the electorate of Vaucluse!

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think Dom might have written one of the tightest synthesis of why the arguments of NIMBYs against densification are incoherent and just plain wrong here. While this time it's about Woollahra, we've seen and heard the same arguments all over Australia and the world.

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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 07/10/2026

📢 Because it is such a great place to live, those who enjoy it already are desperately trying to find ways for others not to.

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For 50 years we’ve let Woollahra off the hook. It’s time the suburb learnt to share

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 07/10/2026

Time for Woollahra to share. Sydney YIMBY Committee Member Dom Behrens in tomorrow's SMH, bringing much needed facts to a discussion desperately in need of it

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Ben Raue @benraue.com · 05/10/2026

Today I’m starting something new with the Tally Room podcast: a three-part history podcast looking at the history of OPV in Australia, rolling out over the next 3 weeks. This first episode looks at early debates on preferential voting and how it worked up to 1951. www.tallyroom.com.au/68638

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Podcast #168 – Just Vote 1: The rise of preferential voting

In the first in a three-party election history series about Optional Preferential Voting called ‘Just Vote 1’, Ben explores the rise of preferential voting – how it happened, who …

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Gentrification” is a cursed word: - It means 11 things to 10 people. My definition: it's too much money chasing too little housing. - In many cities, the worst displacement from housing scarcity happened decades ago. - Those same “gentrified” cities are now undergoing aristocratization.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Police said the bicyclist was not wearing a helmet." Who cares? A bicycle helmet isn't designed to protect cyclists against cars. "At this time, speed, drugs or alcohol do not appear to be contributing factors in the collision, police said." Speed is absolutely a factor, to the 2nd power.

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Bicyclist, 40, dies in collision on Sand Island Access Road | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

A bicyclist died this morning after being struck by a vehicle on Sand Island Access Road near the Keehi Marina Boat Harbor in Kalihi, according to the Honolulu Police Department.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was never beautiful. I have a fix. Fill it with trees, tables and chairs, and umbrellas or some other sort of cover. Open up bars in the surrounding area and allow them to serve patrons in the square.

"'It used to be beautiful'. The quiet failure of Melbourne's revamped City Square".

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Australian cities love to talk about European style squares, but almost never do the thing that makes them successful. The ability to have a drink in the square The usual suspects whinge about commercialising public space, and we wind up with a simulacrum of a town square

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Nation’s 93-Year-Olds Announce Plan To Crash Car Into Side Of Bank theonion.com/nations-93-year-olds-a…

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 29/09/2026

Or as it's described here, "affordable" housing. Politicians love spruiking it as a solution to housing affordability, but it is anything but. What is needed is more housing across the board inflectionpoints.work/a/against-af...

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Against ‘Affordable’ Housing | Inflection Points

It’s not the same as social housing, and it doesn’t help those most in need. Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

30 different approvals required for a duplex in Parramatta #auspol ! These are not systems made to help us succeed and thrive as a country! Good lort.. If you have more horror stories about trying to build the most basic thing - shelter - in Australia, the Prod Commission wants to hear it.

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Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My first time in the other big CBD rail tunnel to open recently - first impressions of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel are its pretty damn nice 🔽 Thread of quick, offhand thoughts

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Sydney Morning Herald with its finger on the pulse of the nation. Won’t anybody think of the Geoffries?

SMH: Geoffrey's au pair was meant to arrive three weeks ago.
He's still waiting.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"What about public housing?" is such a classic nimby tell. The only thing more consistently opposed than increased density in wealthy areas is social/public housing literally anywhere

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These are words to describe a vehicle designed to be operated in public space: "Everything else about the TRX is so aggressively in-your-face, from its additional 20 centimetres of width and blood-red badging to the T-Rex on its tailgate and the banshee wail of the engine’s supercharger."

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've spent my whole adult life hearing how we need to prioritise old buildings over providing housing for people. And it comes from the same people who lament sprawl and the lack of public housing. Would they be OK if the housing in Woollahra was built and owned by the government? I'm guessing not

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 27/09/2026

She’s talking about plans to build new apartments in the richest area in the country. Good on the Guardian giving a voice to the poor downtrodden residents of ... checks notes ... Woollahra.

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 25/09/2026

Woollahra Council are holding a meeting next Wednesday about the state rezoning plan. We need you to register to speak. Details are in this email: mailchi.mp/yimby.au/we-...

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There isn't a city in the world where this shouldn't be used for buses or trams

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Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Likewise Market St has 3 lanes of one-way traffic, a parking lane for taxis, no space for bikes at all, and possibly the most overcrowded footpaths in Sydney. Yet the tunnel underneath is underused.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pedestrians are right to be mad about this. But not at bike riders, at TfNSW and their inability to not look at the world through the eyes of a driver. I'm told there are good active transport people in TfNSW, they should be listened to for a change

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Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would like to find out who in Transport NSW insisted the only way to extend the King St bike lane was to narrow the busy footpath, not narrow the road. And I want them fired.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Such a shit decision. There's something like 15 east-west general traffic lanes across the CBD, a tunnel sitting massively underused beneath it, and they couldn't even sacrifice one lane to the bicycle gods!?

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Such great news from @bicyclensw.bsky.social that cycling has held up in Sydney throughout winter. Anyone who says Sydney (in the city at least) is no good for riding a bike needs to open their eyes to what good infrastructure has done bicyclensw.org.au/cycling-is-b...

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Cycling is booming in Sydney - even in winter!

It is clear to anyone using the inner Sydney cycleway network that more and more people are riding bikes in Sydney. But what does the data actually tell us?

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 21/09/2026

The absolute audacity of Woollahra council putting #housingcrisis on their facebook post trying to prevent rezoning in their LGA! A signal that they're actually fighting on the side of the housing crisis?

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 21/09/2026

Heritage listing entire suburbs, especially right next to the CBD is incompatible with the aim of housing affordability. The Woollahra plan is a start, but there's plenty of other areas where old buildings are prioritised over people who need housing. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Housing and heritage ‘can coexist’ as images reveal how towers would change Woollahra

Heritage items would be “generally” kept, and not directly demolished, to build 9400 homes – but there are two bigger risks in sight.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's particularly frustrating that City of Sydney could achieve this on their streets with paint (e.g. Quay St). Needs to be hardened with concrete of course, but I don't get waiting until that point to provide a better experience for people outside of cars

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The whole area of Haymarket between George St and Wattle St is in desperate need of a proper road diet. Still far too much space for cars, and note enough for people

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 19/09/2026

Absolutely loving this row of 4 terraces from the NSW pattern book in Cronulla shared by one of our members. What was a single house can soon be home to 4 households! And since it's pattern book, they're basically plug and play.

4 NSW pattern book terraces under construction in Cronulla

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Buildings should take up entire blocks in inner city areas! A box to the edges of the property is objectively the best kind of building for dense well located areas

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 18/09/2026

Rozelle residents raising the dark possibility that surface car parks or storage facilities might be replace with… 👻 homes for people 👻

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Better Renting @betterrenting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are only a few hours left to double your donation to Better Renting! Ethical Jobs is matching every dollar up to $6,000 until midday today. That’s right - we will receive $100 for every $50 you donate. It's your last chance to double your impact. Donate here: bit.ly/ejcampaign-2...

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

living in a multicultural city like Sydney, New York, or London is very good, and we have access to the prosperity and freedom we have because of living in an open society. anglos complaining about too much immigration (as its main beneficiaries) are just wrong and we don't have to indulge them

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 10/09/2026

While some in the eastern suburbs scream bloody murder over 9800 homes in Woollahra, there’s 13,000 homes on exhibition in Westmead South and barely a peep. Rich areas think they should be able to opt out, we think everywhere should help out Submission guide for Westmead below

Highlights of the draft westmead rezoning proposal

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 09/09/2026

New report from the Aus Public Policy Institute finds that Heritage Conservation Areas constrain housing supply and says there needs to be more accountability for their impacts. We strongly agree! Full report linked below

Overview of recommendations from the report

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I will forever be a descriptivist on language, but the concept of "tower" in English simply doesn't include a 7 storey apartment building. Nimbys just describe everything they don't like as a tower - and apparently also as cancer

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council should be enabled to do something like Sen̓áḵw at Yasmar in Haberfield.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Loving the fact that the decades of capitulating to inner city nimbys appears to be a thing of the past. "Why can't they live somewhere else" is how we got into this mess. It's gonna take a while to unwind Sydney's housing unaffordability problem, but this is another sign we're heading the right way

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ABC knows their audience, and that audience seems to be primarily made up of NIMBYs who bought a place in the inner west in the 1980s, and are now firmly of the opinion that people should live in the place known as "somewhere else"

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