Mark “Chopper” Read once declared: “Sydney may have all the razzle-dazzle, but most of the deadly serious work gets done in Melbourne.” Times have changed.
The son of Australia’s first billionaire, who might sway the next federal election, says having independents control power in parliament is “within reach”.
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Close your eyes for a minute and try to imagine this city without our white-tiled wonder on Bennelong Point, the Sydney Opera House.
“A building that changed the image of an entire country,” architect Frank Gehry said in 2003, when awarding the Pritzker prize, architecture’s highest accolade, to Jorn Utzon, the Dane who dreamt up the design yet died without seeing it completed.
The Opera House sails in 2021.
Credit:Wolter Peeters
“One of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity, not only in the 20th century but in the history of humankind,” UNESCO described it in 2007 when our signature structure joined the World Heritage list.
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