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

Teeing off: The turf war dividing Sydney’s eastern suburbs

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. The NSW government’s plan to halve Moore Park’s 18-hole golf course to create a 20-hectare park has been caught in the crosshairs of the federal election, after the Coalition pledged $1 million for an alternative bid, put forward by a powerful alliance of golf groups lobbying to save the full course.
The Powerhouse Ultimo revamp has been approved – but the wait’s not over

4 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Megan Gorrey |Linda Morris

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The Powerhouse Ultimo revamp has been approved – but the wait’s not over

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Megan Gorrey |Linda Morris

By Megan Gorrey and Linda Morris March 27, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Work is due to start on the NSW government’s controversial $300 million rebuild of the Powerhouse at Ultimo within months after nearly a decade of false starts, protests and a parliamentary inquiry. But visitors face a wait to visit the revamped museum, which will probably not be completed until 2027 at the earliest.
The Powerhouse Ultimo revamp has been approved – but the wait’s not over

4 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Megan Gorrey |Linda Morris

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Haberfield’s Hawthorne Parade swampland hits Sydney housing market

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. It is the rarest of Sydney sights: more than a dozen vacant residential lots in a sought-after pocket of inner west suburbia hitting the real estate market, ready to go under the hammer in one fell swoop.
Beyond Kings Cross, NSW councils show interest in state government support

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. Suburbs in Sydney’s west are on track to have dedicated night-time entertainment precincts, as the state government relaxes rules around trading hours, live music and noise complaints. Burwood Council will create a “special entertainment precinct” covering three blocks around Chinatown Burwood.
Norrie wanted this unit to be her ‘forever home’. Now, she has to move

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. More than 100 tenants have been handed eviction notices warning they must move within months to make way for the first stage of the $4 billion overhaul of the Waterloo public housing estate.
Sydney Mardi Gras 2025 LIVE updates: Preparations begin for annual parade in celebration of city’s LGBTIQ community

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

By Megan GorreyTrans woman Alita Morgan, 49, remembers growing up in La Perouse in Sydney’s eastern suburbs in the 1980s, in an era when gay men were ridiculed, bashed and pelted with rocks “like it was a sport”. “The way people spoke to each other back then was atrocious.
There are plans to build 2500 homes in Parramatta. The council wants more offices

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

By Megan Gorrey February 26, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The City of Parramatta has criticised the NSW government’s divisive plans to develop thousands of apartments in a heritage precinct north of its fast-growing central business district, arguing the need to boost housing supply must not come at the expense of new employment space.
Revealed: 171 Sydney spots getting more apartment blocks in pared-down density reforms

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

By Megan Gorrey February 21, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. More terraces and apartment blocks up to six storeys will be allowed around 171 transport hubs and town centres in greater Sydney and surrounds after the NSW government finalised pared back medium-density housing reforms intended to deliver more than 100,000 homes within five years.