If you live in Sydney, you might be able to name a few famous pubs: The Hero, The Oaks, and Watson’s Bay. However, there is a pub that should be just as famous, and you wouldn’t know it even if you were standing in front of it. The erasure of The Empress Hotel from Sydney’s … Read more

In August 1791, four ships forced a fragile penal settlement to become a city, as witnessed from Governor Phillip’s verandah, Surgeon White’s ward, Commissary Palmer’s ledger, Bennelong’s point, and the calloused hands of a working man. 1 August: The Arithmetic Changes The lookout’s cry carried across the winter harbour like a struck bell. A square … Read more