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

Big enough for 30,000 elephants, major Sydney metro station reaches milestone

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. 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 week 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.
Sydney might get a new civic square. One building stands in the way

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. The City of Sydney is proposing to forcibly acquire the final building required to construct a long-vaunted public square in the heart of the central business district under a $150 million plan to complete the project in the next six years.
First look at the Barangaroo landmark 450,000 oyster shells built

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. This is the landmark 450,000 discarded Sydney rock oyster shells built. Perched on the harbour’s edge at Barangaroo, the newly completed Pier Pavilion will open on Wednesday – five years after the former Coalition state government revealed the winning design.
Teeing off: The turf war dividing Sydney’s eastern suburbs

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. 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.