Megan Gorrey

Sydney

Urban Affairs reporter at Sydney Morning Herald

Journalist covering urban affairs for The Sydney Morning Herald @smh. Previously crime + courts @canberratimes. Email: [email protected]

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Articles

Government reaches agreement with rail unions after dispute

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jessica McSweeney |Megan Gorrey

By Jessica McSweeney and Megan Gorrey May 30, 2025 — 5.41pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The NSW Government has finally resolved a bitter industrial dispute with the state’s rail unions, bringing to an end months of industrial action. The government on Friday agreed with the unions, in the Fair Work Commission, to a 12 per cent pay rise over three years.
North Sydney Council couldn’t get its rate rise. You might pay for that this summer

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. North Sydney Council will consider a crackdown on parking offences, ticketed entry for New Year’s Eve celebrations and increased fees on harbourside parks for events as it attempts to raise revenue and repair its budget after the pricing regulator rejected a proposed 87 per cent rate rise.
‘Mammoth task’: 10,000 homes damaged as NSW flood clean-up forges ahead

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey |Patrick Begley |Clare Sibthorpe

By Megan Gorrey, Patrick Begley and Clare Sibthorpe May 24, 2025 — 5.57pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Premier Chris Minns says authorities face a “mammoth task” to clean up flood-stricken regions of the Mid North Coast and Hunter, where an estimated 10,000 homes have been damaged, as floodwaters abate and the slow clean-up begins.
Part of Oxford Street’s cycleway opens soon. It prompted Sharon to flee

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Small business owners along Sydney’s Oxford Street are worried the retail strip will suffer from construction disruption and loss of parking spaces if a proposed cycleway extension goes ahead, as an earlier stage of the controversial project inches closer to completion.
‘This is ridiculous’: How a row of plants sparked fury in Potts Point

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Sydney restaurant owner Nahji Chu applied to the City of Sydney council to expand the outdoor dining area in front of her Potts Point restaurant, Lady Chu, she was given a choice: the eatery could install umbrellas to cover the tables, or place pot plants on the footpath, but not both. “I said no, it’s both.
NSW wants small businesses to take charge of reviving high streets. It comes at a cost

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Small businesses will be empowered to revitalise lacklustre high streets and town centres under divisive new laws aimed at leveraging greater private investment to transform public spaces. The state government this month passed legislation aimed at making it faster and easier for more small businesses to band together to set up so-called community improvement districts across NSW.
Revealed: The winners and losers from the verdict on Sydney’s council rate hikes

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ratepayers on the northern beaches face a 25 per cent jump in their rate bills, while residents in nearby North Sydney have been spared a soaring 87 per cent hike to payments, after the state’s independent pricing regulator approved increases to levies for five local governments.
The plan to build more 11-storey unit blocks in Sydney’s inner west

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Apartment blocks up to 11 storeys will be allowed around train stations in Sydney’s inner west after the local council objected to a state-imposed rezoning and drew up its own plans to deliver more than 30,000 new homes.
Big enough for 30,000 elephants, major Sydney metro station reaches milestone

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A shrine to Saint Barbara, patron saint of tunnellers and engineers, stands at the entrance to Australia’s largest underground rail cavern, scooped from sandstone beneath Sydney’s city centre.
‘We’ve made history’: Labor holds on to knife-edge seat of Bennelong

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey |Penry Buckley

By Megan Gorrey and Penry Buckley May 3, 2025 — 10.54pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election here. Labor MP Jerome Laxale conceded he faced an uphill battle to retain the knife-edge seat of Bennelong – once a Liberal stronghold – on Sydney’s lower north shore on Saturday afternoon. “We’ve never held onto Bennelong.