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Anthony Segaert

Anthony Segaert

Anthony Segaert is the Parramatta bureau chief at The Sydney Morning Herald. He was previously an urban affairs reporter.

It’s not a park: the Ryde Civic Centre site opposite Top Ryde Shopping Centre that remains a grassed-over hole in the ground.

Ryde’s hole in the ground stays as council raises ‘serious probity concern’

Councillors were asked to report any discussions they had with developers after staff received information about the civic centre project.

  • Anthony Segaert and Cindy Yin

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Fairfield Council, in Sydney’s west, had its servers accessed in October 2025.

Fairfield Council goes to court following major data breach

In October last year, Fairfield Council’s servers were illegally accessed by hackers who are assumed to be located outside Australia.

  • Anthony Segaert
City of Ryde deputy CEO Michael Galderisi, CEO Wayne Rylands, and governance boss Graham Humphreys.

Sydney council boss and senior staff placed on leave after secret four-hour meeting

The decision was made after councillors were called to a closed-door meeting with just a few hours’ notice.

  • Anthony Segaert and Cindy Yin
The government has pulled funding for an SBS production hub in western Sydney.

Government scraps plans for SBS site in western Sydney

The decision ends a years-long, multimillion-dollar bid to move the multicultural broadcaster into a more diverse region.

  • Ellie Busby, Anthony Segaert and Calum Jaspan
The Blacktown City Council building that the council is currently leasing back from developer Walker.

The Sydney council that sold its offices to spend the next decade renting them back

Blacktown City Council’s new offices were originally costed at $144 million. Now the project will cost $605 million and the council is running out of cash.

  • Ellie Busby and Anthony Segaert
Nathan Stafford.

Meet Nathan: he’s either the most popular or most irritating gardener in Sydney

Nathan Stafford has spent the past fortnight calling out Sydney councils, leaders and even the prime minister. Can he win the fight?

  • Anthony Segaert
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Bondi Beach in the days after the mass shooting in December.

Two teens charged after allegedly stabbing stranger with large knife at Bondi Beach

Emergency services found the 54-year-old man with a stab wound to his upper body on Friday night.

  • Sarah McPhee and Anthony Segaert
Kirsty Rosse-Emile, pictured with son Yahya in 2019, is expected to eventually be resettled in Melbourne.

Too dangerous to return? What we know of the ISIS brides

Some call for the families to be rescued from the camps in Syria. Others, haunted by their own suffering at the hands of Islamic State, are afraid of their return.

  • Michael Bachelard and Anthony Segaert
Marsden Park, pictured by drone in 2023.

Premier promises end to building suburbs with no infrastructure

Marsden Park has one road in and one road out. Will making it wider fix the suburb’s ever-growing congestion problems or make them worse?

  • Anthony Segaert
The oval at 9 Burroway Road, Wentworth Point, has been completed ahead of the rest of the development.

In Sydney’s most populated postcode, green space comes at a premium

Wentworth Point’s only sports field has just opened. But there is already tension about who can use it.

  • Anthony Segaert