Lucy Macken

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Macken

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When physiotherapist Helen Gibson sold her Woollahra home for $10.6 million mid-last year the timing couldn’t have been better: it doubled her purchase price of a few years earlier and coincided with the high point of the Sydney property boom. If only the buyer hadn’t pulled out of the deal.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Macken

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Australia’s most celebrated pop artist, Martin Sharp, died 12 years ago, he left his grand Bellevue Hill mansion, Wirian, to a charitable trust to be preserved as a type of residency for artists. But there was a pertinent postscript to that bequest: that his alma mater, Cranbrook School next door, never get its hands on it.

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Lucy Macken

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1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Macken

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The lucrative nature of Sydney’s tobacco trade was laid bare when Muh’d Al Zoubi fronted Downing Centre Local Court on Friday to answer to a single tobacco-related offence at his Haymarket store. “It is not an insignificant business,” said magistrate Megan Greenwood. “Each year, revenue is in the low millions of dollars.”She’s not wrong.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Macken |Riley Walter

“If it’s so easy for a journalist and members of the public to go into these stores and purchase these things, why is it so difficult for prosecution and police to shut them down,” said Professor Becky Freeman, of the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney.