Ensuring you make key decisions based on data is even more critical, given the challenges local businesses face in the current environment. Recently, governments have identified the immense benefits of using and sharing their data with businesses and the community through Open Data Portals. Open data allows anyone to use free data to make informed…
by ALEC SMART The Pyrmont peninsula is a sandstone-based outcrop bordered either side by two navigable coves, Blackwattle Bay and Darling Harbour. The region has gone through boom, bust and boom again as it transitioned from abattoirs to quarries to docks to slums and is now a hub for technology and tourism. Although inhabited for…
By ALLISON HORE NSW Govt and private consortiums are presenting development plans for Pyrmont’s future… Pyrmont through the ages has had many faces. The face of Pyrmont today looks a lot different to the Pyrmont that was a working class port area, and the derelict Pyrmont scarred by decades of quarrying of the 1980s. Over…
We may have been locked down by we haven’t been knocked down. Many businesses in the precinct may not be able to function under the current restrictions, but some have found a work around. As long as we can keep the entrepreneurial embers burning there’s a chance that one day, hopefully soon, we can re-ignite…
Pyrmont Ultimo Chamber of Commerce would like to wish all its members and subscribers, and all the business owners and residents in and around the precinct a very happy, joy-filled Christmas and prosperous New Year. We’re proud of our achievements this year and we have many more exciting events and projects planned for 2020. We…
Let’s face it – Sydney owns New Year’s Eve. There is no better place in the world to be when the clock strikes midnight – plus you can raise your glass of champagne while wearing a singlet and shorts. Of course, the fireworks display over Sydney Harbour is the headline act, but there are many…
Put ice in the esky and get ready for the annual Sydney Fish Market 36 hour seafood marathon. The popular event will begin at 5am on Monday December 23 and go straight through, non-stop until 5pm Tuesday December 24. Many Sydneysiders have learnt to save their festive feast shopping especially for this event, where they…
The next City Of Sydney local government election will take place on September 12, 2020. To ensure that your enrolment details are up to date, visit the Australian Electoral Commission website https://check.aec.gov.au You may still be eligible to vote even if you are not technically a resident of the City of Sydney LGA if you…
Back before there was internet or television, it was still photography and the geniuses who held the camera that delivered reality to the masses. Black and white images without any animation somehow told an entire story instantaneously. With intuition, courage and skill, photographers like Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake froze time and space forever and…
Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, the partnership that defined a unique aesthetic for Australian fashion from the early 1970s right through to today, are being celebrated in an exhibition currently on at the Powerhouse Museum. Compiled from the museum’s own permanent collection, the exhibit includes over 150 items representing the full span of their 46…