Joel O'Connor

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Education

Green Square has no public high school – and that needs to change now.

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One of Australia’s fastest-growing urban hotspots, Green Square is set to explode by another 40% by 2046. Families are flooding in, yet there’s still...
History

Joy, Maxine and the women of Darlinghurst who refuse to be looked away from

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Irish band Fontaines D.C. perfectly capture a laconic lean in their song Favourite, with the lines: “Shoulder bound to the frame of a door...
History

Watching the ‘Sorry’ speech from The Block

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Working in Redfern, twenty-odd years ago, I used to wheel around from Renwick to Regent Street around 12:30 daily to grab myself a salad...
Music

How to find a long, lost song

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When I was a kid DJ, in the early 1990s, I used to trawl the ‘releases’ section of the community radio station I broadcast...