Ellie Busby

Sydney

Senior Journalist at Parra News

Reporter at @smh (formerly @theparranews). Mumbrella 2024 Young Writer of the Year (30 and Under)

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Articles

Inside the fight to represent western Sydney

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

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the lead-up to the federal election, Dr Andy Marks was everywhere. Less than a week after the vote, Marks, a well-regarded voice for western Sydney, was gone. The upbeat, preppy academic from Parramatta, acting in his role as deputy vice chancellor at Western Sydney University, has spent the past decade as the go-to analyst for political and cultural events in the region.
Cindy was a graphic designer. Now her aviation career is about to take off

2 weeks 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. For full-time mum and part-time graphic designer Cindy Wang, 2025 was all about stepping outside her comfort zone. Signing up for a new micro-credential to work at the Western Sydney International Airport was a sure-fire way to achieve that.
Swimmers left in the cold as council puts ‘hidden gem’ on backburner

2 weeks 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. It’s a cold and wet Tuesday morning when swimmers meet at Epping Aquatic Centre – not to go for a dip but to show frustration at the disappointing closure of the much-loved facility.
This Sydney pool closed for upgrades. It will cost $1 million to reopen exactly as it was

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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 month 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 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.