Justice Michael Lee, handing down his verdict in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial, finding that Lehrmann probably did rape Ms Higgins in Parliament House. Having escaped the lion's den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat. 🤭

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On 6 March 1981, Marianne Bachmeier fatally shot the man who killed her 7-year-old daughter, right in the middle of his trial. She smuggled a .22-caliber Beretta pistol in her purse and pulled the trigger in the courtroom

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Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli in London, ca 1964 [1320×1450]

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The real Sam Kerr shame

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When dating apps haven't worked, try a street pole. Marrickville Road

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Darwin? Just down the road, mate. Straight ahead.

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Utroba Cave, in the Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria. Carved by hand more than 3000 years ago

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Barangaroo pool today

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59 years ago, legendary entertainer, WW2 heroine and civil rights activist Josephine Baker flew in from Paris to address the 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King [280x300]

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WCGW when you put the biggest paint containers on the highest shelf?

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Christmas shopping crowds, Pitt Street, 1949

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Bourke Street bike lane today, the one the anti/cycling brigade led by the Telegraph and Alan Jones said no one would use. Build more!

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Explaining

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Not odd?

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Immutable rule of footpath construction. Any attempt to beautify a footpath with decorative paving will be followed by a utility service trenching straight through it. (Canterbury Road Petersham)

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George Street, 1920s. From the collection of Transport for NSW

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We'll never tell

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Prime cooker vanlife

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Tram at Chatswood 1950. (photo by Brian Bird)

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The Liberals were so stretched in the Dunkley campaign, they had to clone Senator Jane Hume and 2 others to cover it.

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One of Sydney's few remaining phone booths is in the middle of a cycle path. Handy if you need to call an ambulance after you collide with it.

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Martin Place 1940s (photo Sam Hood)

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Australian sign humour

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Rupert will still be around with his helpful political advice.

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Smashed Barnabys everywhere

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Graffiti/fair warning on a picnic table. Next to Hawthorne Canal, Leichhardt/Haberfield.

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Then and now

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On a garbage bin lid in an inner west suburb: I will find out who you are throwing your dog shit in my rubish shame on you take to your home. Rude bitch

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This Balmain Facebook group has a new treasure hunt.

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Two deer

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The Royal Acade in the 1880s. demolished in the 1970s for the ugly Hilton Hotel.

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Circular Quay, 1940s (Max Dupain collection)

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Figure representing NSW in stained glass, placed at Sydney Town Hall on the occasion of its first centenary. Note the waratahs and rams horn headgear, but also the Union Jack chest decoration

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Albo's aerial shot of Sydney. He said Smoke from hazard reduction burns hanging over Sydney this morning. I’m headed to Brisbane for Australia’s biggest May Day march.

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Cycle path in Minorca, Spain.

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Take the ferry to Tassie, they said. More fun than flying. (BOM published this photo on Monday. Phil Thomson Photography)

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Morrison’s formal farewell dinner in The Shire not cancelled due to lack of interest as reported, merely moved to suitable new venue.

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Wynyard Park, lunchtime, October 1959 [Max Dupain]

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He's the champion photo-bomber

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Murdoch's world domination

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The Borissons

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Jeffrey Smart, Cahill Expressway 1962

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Good response to those who quit as health workers rather than vaccinate.

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Circular Quay 1974. SS France at the International Passenger Terminal. Ferry and buses in the blue and white livery that was used by NSW Public Transport in the mid seventies.

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Remember this, Newcastle?

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Eastern Suburbs Railway and Centrepoint Tower both under construction, late 70s.

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Balmain motorists arriving at work today after leaving in 1962

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'Glittering Sydney', by Sydney artist Kate Waddington. 100cm x 80cm acrylic on canvas.

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I was educated here. Brutalist brutality.

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Fill 'er up. Granville flood, 1974. Good thing she had the brolly.

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Craig's Crazy Bargains

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Over the Bridge by Frank Hinder 1957. National Gallery of Australia has original.

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On a power pole in Leichhardt. Please help if you spot them.

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New South Head Road, Rose Bay, 1960. Aka 'Heartbreak Hill', which thousands of runners will soon struggle up in the city to surf. An FJ Holden passes a tram not long before this tram line closed. A two-tone blue Standard rolls heavily into the corner on the downhill.

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Sophia Street, Surry Hills. Central Station at the end.

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'Stinky corner'. The Esplanade, Warners Bay in the 70s

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In 1955, the mushroom cloud from an atomic test was visible to tourists in Las Vegas, 100km (65 miles) away

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The Commonwealth Bank building, Martin Place, in the 1950s

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a parking sensor is only as good as a driver's ability to heed it.

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Newcastle, 1967

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Morning peak hour 1966, early in the age of motor vehicle domination of Sydney.

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A worker on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it nears completion, 1932

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1875. McGrath Lane off Kent street in Sydney. State Library of NSW

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George Street West (Parramatta Road until 1877, now Broadway after widening in the 1930s), Chippendale-Ultimo, c. 1879. Taken from near Jones Street, looking west towards the University of Sydney. Credit: State Library NSW

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Taylor Square, 1952

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Kurri Kurri Hotel (photo by Steve Carrall)

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Every millennial now

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Hunter Street, 1972. Much quieter there 50 years later.

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Can't get no...

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Sydney Harbour Bridge Margaret Preston (1932). Source: AGNSW.

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Diamond Bay, Vaucluse/Dover Heights

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43 years ago, Bob went into the studio with a band put together by Leon Russell and recorded just two songs. Were these songs intended for an album that never happened?

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A nun rushes a child to St Margaret's Hospital, Darlinghurst. The child had consumed his mother's medication. Photo by Mervyn Bishop, 1971.

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Glebe Island Bridge across White Bay, built in 1903 to provide a shorter route between the city and Balmain and further west. It has a swing opening. It was replaced in the 1990s by the high-level Anzac Bridge. It survives disused, there is talk of reopening it for pedestrians and cyclists.

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They were able to keep it hidden when it mattered

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*cough*

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Painting by Bob Dylan. Based on a scene from William Friedkin’s 1977 film Sorcerer.

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Maitland High School students practising for Bronze Medallion tests, Merewether Baths, 1933.

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A train on the long-closed Camden line, 1962. The line branched west off the main southern line south of Campbelltown Station and roughly followed what is now Narellan Rd. The gradient up the hill was one of the steepest in NSW.

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Pitt Street, corner Market Street, looking north, 1949. The southern end of what is now Pitt Street Mall. (Photo NAA0.

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According to Zero Tackle, these are each club's best player signings for 2023

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Burt's Milk Bar, Kingd Cross, 1950. Photo: Ernie Sier, Fairfax collection.

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QVB

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Crowds leave the SCG to board waiting trams after the second day in the third Ashes Test, 6 January 1951. Credit: Frank Burke, Fairfax Archives

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The Bay Run is a circuit that follows the shores of Iron Cove in the inner west. Apparently there are fitness advantages in taking the less popular clockwise direction/s

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A wattle thriving between the two Iron Cove Bridges

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The Sackville Hotel in Rozelle, Graham Arnold's local, has rebranded itself 'The Sackyroo' in support of Australia's World Cup campaign.

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90 years ago 15 January 1932, the setting of the last block of granite on the northern pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the man himself, Dr JJC Bradfield on the right, leaning against the wall wearing a wing-collared shirt — The bridge would be officially in a little over 2 months from then.

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Broadway, early sixties. Sydney traffic has been congested for a very long time.

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Hungry Jack

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Harry's Cafe de Wheels, Woolloomooloo, 1949. Sailors, taxi drivers and 'girls'.

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Girl with kangaroo, Surry Hills backyard, 1901. From 'Developing Sydney' photo exhibition at Customs House.

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The ferry North Head plows through the swell near Sydney Heads in 1976.

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24 years since BHP closed the steelworks. Do you have regrets or appreciation?

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Sydney Cricket Ground on this day, 14 December in 1901, for the 1st cricket test between Australia and England. (Full scorecard in comments below). (State Library of NSW)

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Harry Seidler was no Frank Loyd Wright, harmonising his buildings with nature. They are the architectural equivalent of dick pics.

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Sydney rents are down, they said...

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William Street from the Kings Cross end, 1937 (NSW Public Transport)

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Christmas shopping gridlock, Pitt Street, December 1971. (Sydney Morning Herald)

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Fairy Bower, 1956. Alan Robert Colquhoun Grieve. (State Library of NSW). Fairy Bower is near/part of Manly and can be reached by a coastal path from it. That little patch of sand is no longer there.

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Martin Place, looking east towards Sydney Hospital, 1936. Martin Place had just been extended from its T intersection with Castlereagh Street through to Macquarie Street the previous year. The evidence of building demolition and new road construction are evident.

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Our first sighting of the resident Blue tongue this spring

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Alan Kohler's charts showing a larger share of wages going into the stock exchange. What do we make of this?

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Postcard of a peanut vendor wearing a suit made of peanuts in circa 1890. It is from a photograph by Henry H. Buehman of Tucson, Arizona. [650 x 780]

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Apologies if previously posted here, but funny anyway.

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'The Bay' by Thea Proctor. c.1927 Rushcutters Bay in the background. In the Art Gallery NSW collection

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Australia's fertility rate rose during the 2000s but has now plunged. This may be one of the government's considerations in raising immigration numbers, something it's coming under attack for.

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Seen on a service station toilet on Princes Highway Tempe. They're creepy places to use at the best of times. Only for the desperate. But with God watching? 😒🙄😬

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Passiona by the sea

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Kyeemagh Market Gardens - heritage listed market gardens that have operated on the banks of Cooks River since 1892. (Wikipedia article in comments below).

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The abandoned monorail station at Darling Harbour.

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A fixture of the Sydney and Australian music scene for over 55 years, Doug Parkinson, has died aged 74. He had a hit with The Questions in 1966, Sally Go Round the Roses. Doug Parkinson in Focus formed soon after and had a major hit a cover of The Beatles'Dear Prudence. A life well lived.

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Poo-neglecting dog owners have bought this Leichhardt resident to this.

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Souvenir hunter

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First ride on brand new Brompton, Balmain Shores, Sydney. Still working things out, such as - why is only the left pedal capable of folding?

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Porsche Cayenne, plateless & abandoned on an inner west street. Council sticker warning owner of impending impoundment. These things sell new for $150k or something. Do they become worthless rolling money-pits with a bit of age?

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A pair of dumped and impounded BMW 330is, soon to be removed. Leichhardt shore of Iron Cove.

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Not odd?

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Utroba Cave, in the Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria. Carved by hand more than 3000 years ago

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Anyone's guess what he'll do if he sees one

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Any ID for this plant flowering in the ranges of southern Queensland now?

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Two for the price of, uh, two singles. Bargain!

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