Ellie Busby

Sydney

Senior Journalist at Parra News

Reporter at @smh (formerly @theparranews)✏️ reader of books and lover of coffee ☕️ Mumbrella 2024 Young Writer of the Year (30 and Under)

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Articles

This Sydney pool closed for upgrades. It will cost $1 million to reopen exactly as it was

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Ellie Busby

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Sydney council faces a $1 million outlay to re-open a pool it shut last year, after cost blowouts on an approved upgrade brought the project to a halt. The redevelopment of Epping Aquatic Centre, budgeted at $26.88 million, was meant to start last year, but the pool has remained dormant, the water turning green.
This suburban pool closed for upgrades but it will cost $1m to reopen just as it was

5 days ago | theage.com.au | Ellie Busby

This suburban pool closed for upgrades but it will cost $1m to reopen just as it was, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Sydney council faces a $1 million outlay to re-open a pool it shut last year, after cost blowouts on an approved upgrade brought the project to a halt.
Relative calm as thousands turn out to vote in Sydney’s marginal seats

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Frances Howe |Kayla Olaya |Ellie Busby |Penry Buckley

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Sydney voters go to the polls in Parramatta, Blaxland, Watson, Wentworth, Bennelong, Fowler

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Frances Howe |Kayla Olaya |Ellie Busby |Penry Buckley

On Friday, acting Australian electoral commissioner Jeff Pope spoke on RN Breakfast to say Wentworth was among Sydney electorates where police had been called to deal with incidents of bad behaviour. Knox said she’d experienced first-hand the heightened aggression particular to this election. “The teals in particular have been very, very aggressive during this campaign,” she said.
It was once Sydney’s neglected outpost. Then came the developers

3 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

3 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

3 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.
Junction Street Plaza Parramatta opens parkour playground

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Ellie Busby

By Ellie Busby April 10, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Gone are the slippery dips and see-saws. This new $1.4 million playground is built for teenagers to do flips. As parkour videos continue to go viral online, the City of Parramatta is jumping on the trend with the opening of its first parkour-themed playground on Thursday.
Cumberland Council to remove anti-racism signage

1 month ago | parranews.com.au | Ellie Busby

Described as “woke virtue signalling,” Cumberland Council has voted to remove ‘#RacismNotWelcome’ signs three years after they were first installed. The 50 anti-racism signs located across the Cumberland Local Government Area will now be removed, after the controversial Council broke out into another debate at the latest meeting. Local Mohamed Hassan told the Council many in the community experience racism.
And we’re off! Anthony Albanese calls Federal Election

1 month ago | parranews.com.au | Ellie Busby

Australians will go to the polls on May 3 after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called a Federal Election this morning. Albanese visited Governor-General Sam Mostyn this morning to lock in the election date. It will kick off a six-week election campaign, at the end of which Australians will either endorse Labor for a second term or elevate the Coalition to government. Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are likely to fight the election on tax cuts, cost-of-living and electricity prices.