Pins matching place:Sydney

The Doyle family began selling fish on the sand at Watsons Bay in 1885, looking back across the harbour at the city, and the business has stayed in the family for five generations - one of the oldest restaurants in Australia still run by the people whose name is on it.

Streets first released the Golden Gaytime in 1970, a toffee and vanilla ice cream dipped in compound chocolate and rolled in biscuit crumbs, a decade after the plain Gaytime of 1959.

Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera House, capping fourteen years of construction that ran a decade late and far over its original budget.

A restaurant and bar inside the Sydney Opera House built around Australian produce and wine.

Crown Sydney, the AUD $2.2BN, 71-storey tower at Barangaroo designed by Wilkinson Eyre, opened its hotel and restaurants after a construction run through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sydney's decades-old rule capping buildings at 235m, tied to the height of Sydney Tower, gave way as the state government approved a planning framework allowing towers up to 310m.

Sydney's Quay Quarter Tower, which reuses 68% of a 1970s office block's structure, finished construction at Circular Quay.

Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.

On 4 September 2025 Atlassian announced a definitive agreement to acquire The Browser Company of New York, the maker of the Arc and Dia browsers, in an all-cash deal of about US$610 million.

On 18 September 2025 Atlassian agreed to buy DX, an engineering-intelligence platform that measures developer productivity, for about US$1 billion in cash and restricted stock, its largest acquisition to date.

When the ransom deadline passed, Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published stolen Salesforce data of six companies, including 5 million Qantas customer records and 7.3 million Vietnam Airlines email addresses.

The 35,000-square-metre market at the head of Blackwattle Bay opened its doors at 7am, replacing the 1966 shed two kilometres away in Pyrmont and roughly doubling retail space across more than 40 food and seafood operators. Designed by Danish architects 3XN/GXN with BVN and Aspect Studios and built by Multiplex, it adds over 6,000 square metres of public open space on the harbour foreshore.

Alo Yoga confirmed its first Australian stores, at Chatswood Chase and a two-level, 700 m² store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney.

On 11 March 2026 Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes announced that the company would reduce its team by about 10 percent, or roughly 1,600 employees, to self-fund investment in AI and enterprise sales.

Alo's first store in Australia: a 315 m² 'sanctuary' at Chatswood Chase on Sydney's Lower North Shore, opposite Lululemon.

Renault Australia confirmed Symbioz pricing in June 2026: the Techno mild-hybrid with a 104 kW 1.3-litre turbo petrol and 563-litre boot from A$36,990 plus on-road costs, with deliveries from July.

The 39-storey, 180-metre tower beside Central Station reached its full height at a topping-out ceremony, making it the world's tallest hybrid timber and steel building. Co-owned by Atlassian and the property group Dexus, it anchors Sydney's Tech Central precinct and is expected to be completed in 2027.

On 6 August 2026 Atlassian reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of US$1,766 million, up 28 percent, with cloud revenue up 31 percent to US$1,213 million and a 12 percent GAAP operating margin.

Nestlé's Allen's has put Block Party, Sherbet Fizz and Strawberries & Cream chocolate blocks (170g, RRP A$7.50) on shelves at Coles, Woolworths and independents from 31 August 2026.

A sold-out women's night half marathon from Rozelle Parklands past White Bay, Anzac Bridge and Pyrmont Bridge to Tumbalong Park, the second stop of Nike's 2026 After Dark Tour.

Cider Australia's 15th awards announce their winners at a dinner at Rydges World Square on 15 October, after judging by Max Allen's panel in Melbourne.

Western Sydney International Airport, a AU$5.3BN project decades in the making, opens to passenger flights to relieve an overwhelmed Sydney Airport as the city's population grows toward 7 million.

The $915 million museum on the bank of the Parramatta River opens on Saturday 7 November 2026 with five exhibitions and more than 3,000 objects, followed by a 23-day opening festival. Entry to the museum and most exhibitions is free, and everyone under 16 gets free entry to exhibitions.

The 628-nautical-mile Rolex Sydney Hobart, run by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia since 1945, starts at 13:00 on Saturday 26 December 2026 on Sydney Harbour.

Alo Yoga plans a 700 m², two-level store at Westfield Bondi Junction, with no opening date published yet; the end-of-2026 date is an estimate. It would follow the Galeries store, which opened on 11 September 2026.

Zeekr showed the 007 GT, sold overseas as the Zeekr 7GT, at the Sydney EV show and said it will launch it in Australia in the fourth quarter of 2026 after rolling it out in 16 European countries.

Calvin Harris' first ever Australian headline tour reaches Sydney, the only Saturday night on the tour. Four outdoor shows across February 2027, all ticketed through Ticketmaster.

The 2026 VMware Explore on Tour season closes in Sydney on 3-4 March 2027 at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth on Phillip Street.

Informa's new Sydney show opens in July 2027 at Darling Harbour, with indoor exhibition space at ICC Sydney and an on-water display.

The Sydney Marathon returns on Sunday 29 August 2027 as the newest World Marathon Major, after 2026 drew 120,000 applications and a course record from Addisu Gobena.

On 27 October 2026 Kalshi put an official Canva IPO confirmation at 2% before Nov 1, 2026, rising to 50% before Jan 1, 2028. The largest step in the ladder runs from Dec 1, 2027 to Jan 1, 2028 (36% to 50%), so that window is the market's most likely stretch; it is a bet on timing, not a listing date.

Totality passes directly over central Sydney for nearly four minutes, the first there since 1857.

Sydney's Western Harbour Tunnel, redesigned mid-build from a cut-and-cover crossing to twin bored tunnels, is on track to open beneath the harbour in 2028.

Australia has funded a two-year development phase for its first high-speed rail line, a 1,800km network starting with Newcastle to Sydney that has been promised since 2013.