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Aidan Elwig Pollock

Aidan Elwig Pollock

Aidan Elwig Pollock is an intern journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald.

Sean McLoughlin teaches Irish language classes in Sydney.

The ‘endangered’ language having its moment in a Sydney pub

Two years ago, the Irish language school had 20 or 30 students attending lessons, now it has between 70 and 80.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock

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Olivia Wu, 26, is a regular at the Australian Museum, where more young people are visiting.

‘Better than doomscrolling’: The group of Sydneysiders flocking to museums and galleries

For Olivia Wu, 26, museums and galleries are “kind of like the modern-day cathedrals”.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
Despite cost-of-living pressures, Erin Girvan makes going to gigs and festivals a priority.

Music festivals have had a bad few years, but promoters say things are on the up. This is why

High-profile festivals have hit the wall, and some new festivals were cancelled before they even began, but 2026 could be the year it turns around.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
Domenic Svejkar from KBR Consultancy says Sydney should unearth its lost waterways to cool the environment.

The pitch to bring Sydney’s hidden waterways to the surface

Colonial maps show a city with vast waterways now lost beneath roads and buildings, but “daylighting” hidden waterways in the suburbs could help cool Sydney down as the climate changes.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
The cutter emerges from the depths at Westmead.

What happens to our metro tunnel boring machines when they hit the end of the line?

Betty and Dorothy have reached Westmead. This is how Metro gets them out of the tunnels – and the fate they will meet.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
International student Ariye Sunilkumar Monee says the high cost for her degree is worth it.

‘It’s worth it’: The shocking cost of degrees for international students

Ariye’s engineering masters degree will cost her $180,000 – and that’s on the cheaper end of the scale. Search our list.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock, Craig Butt and Sally Rawsthorne
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Rothesay Swan as a teenager at war on the HMAS Shropshire, left, and at his home in Killara in 2004.

Sent to war aged 16, rear admiral learnt to ‘grit your teeth and get on with it’

Australia’s last surviving flag-rank World War II naval veteran has died, aged 99.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
The average Sydney public toilet is institutional in its design.

The problem with Sydney’s ‘institutional’ public toilets

Better public toilets and three new light rail lines are among the big ideas being discussed at this year’s Sydney Summit to improve the city’s infrastructure.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
Crowds swarmed the new Sydney Fish Market on Monday.

Crowds turned away as Sydney’s colossal new fish market finally opens

Queues snaked into Glebe as the new seafood palace reached capacity by lunch on Monday.

  • Megan Gorrey, David Barwell, Cindy Yin and Aidan Elwig Pollock
Panayiotis Kouros, son of Harry Kouros. The family owns Fish Market Cafe, Squid Inc and The Boatshed at the Sydney Fish Markets.

‘A huge part of my life’: Retailers farewell old fish market site

Most of the existing stores – including the six seafood vendors – have signed leases to move across to the new site at below-market rates.

  • Cindy Yin and Aidan Elwig Pollock