Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. A former editor and Sydney City Councilor, she is also Adjunct Associate-Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses' and 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness'.
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There's no road to riches in our fat city
Elizabeth Farrelly A week before Christmas, I sold my car. Some people do a year without meat, or mojitos, or sex. I'm trialling life sans car. It was an emotional moment.
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Spare the rod, spoil the planet
Elizabeth Farrelly A plague of unwhacked children. Is it possible that, in an array of future threats that includes climate change, financial collapse, sprawl, greed, war, pestilence and famine, humanity's primary...
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Danger lies on the GM food road
Elizabeth Farrelly The West Australian Minister for Agriculture, Tony Redman, wants to redefine "organic" to accommodate genetic engineering.
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Design fails to think outside the square
Elizabeth Farrelly Near where I live is an uber-chic window display of square toilets. The blurb cites the old Bauhaus line ''less is more'', but it's a sunny morning and I'm feeling good so I take this less as a...
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It takes flair to scoff ourselves stupid and waste so much
Elizabeth Farrelly I'm looking at a painting called Cake by French-born Darwin artist Franck Gohier. It features a brown cake with white icing, a map of Australia and a list of ingredients.
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Black dog bites when happiness is an entitlement
Elizabeth Farrelly I have a black dog. I mean, I get depressed, sure, as sentient creatures will, and Jeff Kennett too. But I also have a black dog.
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Hurry to the Slurry, a grey area where stuff gets done
Elizabeth Farrelly Just years ago Dolour Darcy, from Ruth Park's The Harp in the South, made "getting out of Surry Hills" her life's ambition.
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Did Jesus make us fat and greedy?
Elizabeth Farrelly Christianity, some say, caused the crash. Not traditional Christianity, in which next-life success depends on this-life frugality, but the new so-called prosperity gospel, whose spirituality comes...
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Over-cosseting is a Fawkes cracker all of its own
Elizabeth Farrelly Children, children. How we love them. We stop them blowing their fingers off on an annual basis, only to shroud them in sexual hysteria and gorge them daily like so many Normandy geese until, for the...
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Women have bitten off more than they can chew with school lunch
Elizabeth Farrelly Every five minutes a new study shows that, despite feminism's glorious strides - nano-cosmetics, auto-erotic finances, caesars-on-demand (I'm not talking salads) and a truly wondrous array of...
