Mostafa Rachwani

Australia

Reporter at The Guardian

🇱🇧🇦🇺Parramatta Reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald

Articles

Sydneysiders moving from north shore to western suburbs for housing affordability

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There was only one way Genevieve Giles could buy her first property: going west. Attempting to enter the Sydney housing market on a single income, the former north shore resident’s options were severely limited. Her preference to leave her family’s home in Willoughby for a place in the inner west was immediately dashed.
‘Everyone I know is panicking’: fear grips local Iranian community

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It has been five agonising days since Melika has heard from her father. Melika, who asked to go by her first name, is in the dark when it comes to the wellbeing of her family living in Iran, like much of the diaspora in Australia amid the country’s war with Israel.
I’m a lifelong Bulldogs fan, so don’t tell me who’s allowed to join our bandwagon

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

Parramatta Reporter June 13, 2025 — 3.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As a lifelong Canterbury-Bankstown fan, I’ve had my share of suffering. I’ve watched in pain as they’ve spent seasons either winning the wooden spoon or flirting with winning the wooden spoon. I’ve watched embarrassing spankings, last-minute heartbreaks, frustrating fumbles, and what has become a 21-year premiership drought.
Australian doctors saving lives in Gaza via PANZMA

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Warning: graphic contentDr Ayman Alattar didn’t sleep much during his time in Gaza. The emergency doctor from the Illawarra, south of Sydney, spent four weeks there as part of a medical mission organised by the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association (PANZMA), a voluntary organisation. In that time, he only spent a few nights at PANZMA-run safe houses.
Inside Western Sydney Airport’s surprisingly small terminal

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Standing in front of an echoey terminal full of unused check-in machines and digital scales awaiting frustrated travellers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could not hold back his grin. He was telling the crowd that unveiling the terminal at the Western Sydney International Airport was something of an incentive for him to win the May 3 election.
Gentrification in south-west Sydney to follow path of metro, mirror Paddington and Redfern

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Lakemba, Fairfield and Mount Druitt are among the Sydney suburbs tipped to become “the new Redfern” through gentrification. The three western Sydney suburbs, all centres of migrant populations, are among the suburbs with the cheapest rent in Sydney, despite having relatively good public transport and infrastructure.
Muslim Vote group to support candidates in NSW, Victorian elections

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A pro-Palestine political movement that failed to win a seat at the May federal election has vowed to push on and support candidates for the upcoming Victorian and NSW state elections. The Muslim Vote endorsed independent candidates in three Labor-held seats – Watson and Blaxland in western Sydney and Calwell in Melbourne’s north-west.
Revealed: The plans for Australia’s first Hindu school

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Despite being one of Australia’s fastest-growing religious groups, the Hindu community has been the only major faith without its own school. Until now. The federal government has promised the Hindu community $8.5 million in grant funding to launch a new school in western Sydney.
Monkey Boy meme page creator wants to prove Sydney still has a soul

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nathan Asani’s popular Sydney-centric meme page can feel like it is staring into the city’s soul – and laughing at it. “Monkey Boy” has gained a cult following for its often biting comedy about Sydney’s tribalism, subcultures and rivalries. But Asani says his page tells a broader narrative about life in the city, and highlights the need for “Sydney stories”.
Inside the fight to represent western Sydney

1 month 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.