Memories

Bring ferries back to Walsh Bay

Walsh Bay has more wharves and jetties—plus more prestigious arts and culture venues—than any other shore of Sydney Harbour. So why is our city’s oldest colonial headland a blatant exclusion from the city’s network of public ferry stops? Local campaigners, led by Yasmina Bonnet, vice-president of the Millers Point Community Residents Action Group (MPCRAG), are […]

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On the big screen outside Barangaroo Park’s Cutaway events venue, an amazing film now reveals the daily activities and culture of the Eora people who lived on our shoreline long before

All the Walsh Bay piers had been abandoned for shipping since the advent of container ships and were used mainly for short-term storage. Two exceptions in the early 1980s were that the MSB leased out Pier One

My sketches are drawn quickly—five minutes or less. I like to work quickly because it keeps me from getting bogged down in detail or overthinking things. They are drawn mostly en plein air, outdoors

Before new developments of Barangaroo, it was a major berth for container and cruise ships. JANE BENNETT, artist-in-residence for Patrick and Sydney Ports, painted the end of freight handling at East Darling Harbour and Walsh Bay. Over the past 30 years, I have painted so many aspects of this area’s fascinating history. I painted on […]

Before Pier 6-7 was rebuilt as marina apartments, the earlier wharf was operated by Burns Philp, a major South Pacific merchant shipping company. Pier resident IAN DANCE recalls his grandfather

Three minutes walk from Walsh Bay is a busy building site for the future Barangaroo Metro train station: to be built largely underground and due to open in 2024.
Since the site geared up in early 2018,

Bring ferries back to Walsh Bay

Coming back to Eora life

Memories of machinations

An architect’s sketchbook

Paintings of a passing port

Commanding the Braeside

History dig at Barangaroo