Morning Herald Pubdate: 11-Dec-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 851 Save the shonks: a car rescue deal you can trust ELIZABETH FARRELLY My first Sydney car was lubricated out of its Parramatta Road car yard with the heartfelt handshake, sincere goodwill and honest-to-God promises of a yellow-haired, pink-skinned Scot […]
——————————————————————————- Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 06-Dec-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: News Review Page: 34 Wordcount: 2069 Sins of emission Elizabeth Farrelly. The Rudd Government is pinning its carbon reduction hopes on the very market mechanics that compounded the mess in the first place, argues Elizabeth Farrelly. ‘What’s carbon paper Mummy?’ It’s […]
———————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 06-Dec-2008 Edition: Second Section: Subsection: Page: 6 Wordcount: 635 Father’s son captures spirit of a place nARCHITECTURE Elizabeth Farrelly FIVE years after winning architecture’s Nobel prize, the Pritzker, the Australian Glenn Murcutt, AO, has received the 2009 American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal. Murcutt’s selection, although widely acclaimed, has […]
———————————————————————- Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 04-Dec-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 856 Let’s not make the same mistake twice ELIZABETH FARRELLY All day Monday the Harbour Bridge flags sagged to half mast and well they might. Joern Utzon’s death reminds us not only of the Opera House and […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 01-Dec-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Page: 6 Wordcount: 2331 High noon at Bennelong Point OBITUARY – JOERN UTZON: 1918 – 2008 ELIZABETH FARRELLY Joern Utzon had it all: global fame, a huge cult following, an eponymous foundation and one of the world’s most glorious buildings indelibly […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 27-Nov-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 858 Doing the right thing is worth money in the bank ELIZABETH FARRELLY Did you hear the one about the artist, the engineer and the editor? “I don’t want to be judgmental,” insists the young artist, flogging […]
——————————————- Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 20-Nov-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 877 Going for gold: a nation groaning with philistines ELIZABETH FARRELLY Next Monday is Davis Hughes’s birthday. You remember Davis Hughes, Sir Davis Hughes, our favourite philistine – sacked Utzon, ruined the Opera House (but not before […]
————————- Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 13-Nov-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 884 Stark stance of sacrifice contrasts with our moral pygmies ELIZABETH FARRELLY So, bookies didn’t want to pay out on Barack Obama before he was fully stamped into place. You can see why. Politicians who stay on […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 06-Nov-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 19 Wordcount: 857 Bullying and toxic favours provoke mood of disgust ELIZABETH FARRELLY Kevin Bacon did not cure cancer. Didn’t, in fact, give cancer a moment’s thought. But possibly, just possibly, Obama will bring us trains. Other people have […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 31-Oct-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Page: 7 Wordcount: 521 At 90 degrees, Sydney’s in the shade COMMENT Elizabeth Farrelly IT’S not a competition, of course not, no way. So it doesn’t matter that of the 27 gongs to Australian buildings at last night’s Australian Institute of Architecture […]
