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In his ‘From Eyesore To Icon’ report last month, Daniel Hutton’s only apt observation was that when it comes to fixing Harry Seidler’s eight-storey visual blight on Tamarama, “you can’t polish a turdâ...

During the month The Beast caught up with Sydney Swans young gun Sam Reid, who recently signed a massive five-year deal with the club… Where are you originally from? A small town in north east Victoria called Bright, w...

There’s a joke going around in tech circles at the moment to describe the current climate of venture capitalism: a new pub opens and 1000 people visit on opening night. No one spends a cent. The venue is declared a mas...

Margaret Whitlam (nee Dovey) was born on November 19, 1919 at the family home at 2 Miller Street, Bondi. In 2005 she was quoted in an article in The Bondi View newspaper as saying she often re-visits Miller Street. Her f...

Dealing with blow-ins at the beach during summer is a fact of life if you live on the Eastern Beaches. However, one blow-in that is arguably the hardest to deal with, and one that can easily turn a pleasant day at the be...

Parking Officer Robin Conquest was ruthless in the pursuit of his quarry. He would have booked his own mother if he had half the chance. He was the best revenue earner for the council department until the day he unknowin...

Jenny Goodall started working for Small Steps when she met the director, Amy Hanson, at the screening of a documentary about the project (http://vimeo.com/18118073) at the Bondi Hotel. Jenny had already been running mara...