Anthony Segaert

Sydney

Urban Affairs Reporter at Sydney Morning Herald

urban affairs reporter @smh, covering local councils and city life. [email protected], or on Signal: 0426034550. powered by flat whites and grace.

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Articles

The light rail was great – until it opened their backyards to the world

3 days ago | smh.com.au | Anthony Segaert

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There’s no doubt that the Parramatta light rail has improved transport connection in western Sydney: bus journeys that took almost an hour between Carlingford and Westmead now take less than 30 minutes.
This suburb is booming, and there’s more development on the way. What comes next?

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Anthony Segaert

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s early on Wednesday morning at Rouse Hill Town Centre – one of the country’s largest greenfield shopping centres – and people are starting their days with coffee and a visit to the playground. Life in Rouse Hill is good.
The unlikely location of Sydney’s newest five-star hotel

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Anthony Segaert

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If booking a place to stay in Parramatta on a trip to Sydney doesn’t seem luxurious to you, just give it a few years. Top international hotels are flooding the city ahead of the opening of the new Western Sydney Airport, hoping to cash in on lucrative cabin-crew contracts and a new batch of global travellers.
Stuff

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Anthony Segaert
Five charged over field-side brawl at under-7s football game

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Anthony Segaert

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Police are appealing for video footage of a brawl that broke out on the sidelines of an under-7s football match in Sydney’s south-west. At least five adults were involved in the incident, which occurred at Prospect View Park in Fairfield just before midday on Saturday.
Five charged over field-side brawl at under-7s football game

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Anthony Segaert

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Long weekend drivers warned as rain drenches state

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Anthony Segaert

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Drivers returning from holidays over the long weekend are being warned to be cautious on the roads after the state was battered by heavy rain overnight. The Anzac Day long weekend brought rain across much of the state, the worst of the falls occurring in the state’s north and north-west.
It was once Sydney’s neglected outpost. Then came the developers

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani |Ellie Busby |Anthony Segaert

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter Berg doesn’t like the new Parramatta. He doesn’t like the new skyscrapers, the new cafes or the fact that so many streets are now pedestrian-only. Like many of his generation, Berg laments that Parramatta used to be a “working-class area, more of a village” with “street shopping, none of these big centres”.
Sydney Olympic Park is due for 13,000 homes. It could get even more

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Anthony Segaert |Ellie Busby

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Sydney Olympic Park is due for 13,000 homes. It could get even more

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Anthony Segaert |Ellie Busby

By Anthony Segaert and Ellie Busby April 25, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sydney Olympic Park is set to take on more apartments than planned as the body responsible for the 430-hectare open area considers significant increases to the number of homes allowed on the site.