Linda Bergin is founder of Headland Preservation Group and a long-time advocate for the protection of heritage sites on the Sydney Harbour foreshore.
Visitors should not have to choose between two different histories or be told which stories are important and which are not.
In-filling the Barracks with affordable housing will not solve Sydney’s housing crisis, but it will destroy a part of our heritage.
Barangaroo’s latest proposed harbourside addition would be more fitting at Sydney’s new international airport terminal.
Rather than dining, weddings, offices and festivals, might not Middle Head be better purposed for education and research, to teach future generations about Australia’s important past?
Cadman’s Cottage is a last surviving link to early Sydney Cove. We’re putting our most precious heritage sites in the wrong hands.
Why not combine Central Barangaroo with adjacent Headland Park to create a single, glorious 11-hectare foreshore park?