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Siena Fagan

Siena Fagan

Siena Fagan is a Sydney writer.

Only 42 per cent of Gen Zs want to frequent a bar or pub.

Groped on the dancefloor? No thanks, we’re Gen Z

Pubs and clubs are too dangerous and expensive. We have other ways of meeting up.

  • Siena Fagan

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Fifth-year law student and paralegal Lucy Long uses a Barbie flip phone.

Why law student Lucy replaced her iPhone with a Barbie flip phone

The popularity of so-called “dumb phones” is climbing, particularly among younger Australians looking for a social media break.

  • Siena Fagan
Medicine graduate Liam Morrissey was inspired to become a doctor after his family’s experience with rural health. 

Instead of sending city doctors to rural hospitals, this uni is changing course

Liam Morrissey knows the gap between bush and city access to healthcare. He’s just graduated from the University of Sydney’s medical school in Dubbo, created to bridge it.

  • Siena Fagan
Caoimhe Bray, 16, balances teenage life with her cricket career.

This cricket star just finished year 10. She’s also represented Australia in soccer

Caoimhe Bray is the youngest person to play in a Women’s Big Bash League match. She has also played for the Junior Matildas.

  • Siena Fagan
Lucy Kokkotas and Yaelle Ohana, hosts of the podcast ‘IVF Real Talk’, said would-be parents may be deterred by clinics opting out of having their results published on the independent platform.

‘Patients deserve to know’: The IVF clinics and the missing success rates

Nine clinics are not reporting birth and pregnancy results, while the multimillion-dollar industry faces growing distrust among prospective parents.

  • Kate Aubusson and Siena Fagan
Index photo for Bondi victims 

‘I was holding her’: Shattered father reveals Matilda’s final moments as more families share tributes

As the first funerals are held, further details are emerging and tributes pouring forth about the victims of the Bondi attack. This is what we know about them so far.

  • Kate Aubusson, Anthony Segaert, Julie Power, Ellie Busby, Riley Walter, Siena Fagan, Cindy Yin, Eryk Bagshaw, Jessica McSweeney and David Barwell
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North Sydney Girls High’s Valery Lin and Emily Phi topped the state in advanced English.

The five-letter formula that saw this school’s HSC English marks soar

North Sydney Girls deputy principal said the perfect-scoring essays turned in by the school’s year 12 cohort shared a common structure.

  • Emily Kowal, Nigel Gladstone and Siena Fagan
The Bondi heroes.

Four heroes tried to stop the Bondi terrorists. Three paid with their lives

These are the moments bystanders tried to disarm gunman Sajid Akram. Two of them died in each other’s arms. 

  • Eryk Bagshaw, David Barwell, Siena Fagan and Sherryn Groch
Blood donors queue up outside the Town Hall Lifeblood centre.

Sydney rolls up its sleeves in the aftermath of horror

Blood donations, floral tributes and sharing food: Sydney has rallied in the wake of the Bondi attack.

  • Siena Fagan, Ellie Busby, Max Maddison and Kate Aubusson
Castle Hill High School English head Lindy Jones has been marking HSC English for 37 years.

In 37 years of HSC marking, Lindy always sees students make this mistake

Castle Hill High School’s English head is one of the longest standing markers: one of just 30 to have marked students across four decades.

  • Siena Fagan