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Michael Koziol

Michael Koziol

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Sydney’s most controversial public toilet. A constipated story

How long does it take to install a public toilet? Well, in humble Erskineville, NSW, Australia, it’s 10 years – and counting. Let me take you on a...

24.03.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Wild claims and talk of ‘high-rise ghettos’ sully density debate

The Minns government’s far-reaching planning reforms – which respond to a severe housing shortage that’s on track to get worse – were always...

12.03.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Why boring places like Balmain must be saved from themselves

Balmain holds a special place in Sydney’s history, and its heart. Once a gritty, working-class suburb of dry docks and factories, it has been...

02.02.2024 100

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Lang Walker, the pioneer who taught Sydney to embrace its west

Lang Walker has been praised in death as a pioneering property developer who changed the face of Sydney and helped reorient the city’s future toward...

28.01.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

I asked Alexander Zverev about his DV allegations, and I wasn’t chasing clicks

It didn’t take long for word to spread through the tennis fraternity that a journalist at this year’s Australian Open was asking players about the...

22.01.2024 9

WA Today

Michael Koziol

I asked Alexander Zverev about his DV allegations, and I wasn’t chasing clicks

It didn’t take long for word to spread through the tennis fraternity that a journalist at this year’s Australian Open was asking players about the...

22.01.2024 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

I asked Alexander Zverev about his DV allegations, and I wasn’t chasing clicks

It didn’t take long for word to spread through the tennis fraternity that a journalist at this year’s Australian Open was asking players about the...

22.01.2024 30

The Age

Michael Koziol

I asked Alexander Zverev about his DV allegations, and I wasn’t chasing clicks

It didn’t take long for word to spread through the tennis fraternity that a journalist at this year’s Australian Open was asking players about the...

22.01.2024 9

Brisbane Times

Michael Koziol

Sydney must decide the city it wants to be. Paris has some clues

In July, Paris will host the Olympic Games, bringing the world’s gaze upon the City of Light. In Sydney, we know a little about what that’s like,...

29.12.2023 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

We’re getting the biggest housing bang for our buck - but it’s no quick fix to an unparalleled crisis

Like an early Christmas present, Chris Minns has ripped the wrapping off his government’s major transport and housing package - the long-awaited...

07.12.2023 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Sydney isn’t really a city. That’s what makes it so difficult to plan

Someone said to me the other day that Sydney “isn’t really a city”. It’s more like a collection of villages; little hamlets spread over a vast...

24.11.2023 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Dear Sydney Trains: Shut up, relax and stop nannying me about everything

There is a sign in Darling Harbour that really triggers me. It’s one of those big, block-letter artistic installations that you often see at...

03.11.2023 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Seven suburbs are a good start, but Labor is picking the low-hanging fruit

After months of rhetoric, the rubber is finally hitting the road and the state government is homing in on seven or so Metro stations where it will...

01.11.2023 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Enmore, everywhere, all at once: Nightlife policy needs a reality check

Walking down Broadway one evening this week, I overheard a couple of SXSW attendees talking about Sydney. One asked the other, who had apparently...

20.10.2023 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Latest rent hikes bring Sydney another step closer to ghetto for the rich

The good news, if you can call it that, is that Sydney rents only climbed marginally this quarter, to $680 per week for the median unit and $720 for...

05.10.2023 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

How do we find migration’s Goldilocks number without the debate turning toxic?

The next regular federal election must be held by May 24, 2025, so we are – at most – 18 months away from a campaign. And if you were to predict...

29.09.2023 4

WA Today

Michael Koziol

How do we find migration’s Goldilocks number without the debate turning toxic?

The next regular federal election must be held by May 24, 2025, so we are – at most – 18 months away from a campaign. And if you were to predict...

29.09.2023 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

How do we find migration’s Goldilocks number without the debate turning toxic?

The next regular federal election must be held by May 24, 2025, so we are – at most – 18 months away from a campaign. And if you were to predict...

29.09.2023 5

The Age

Michael Koziol

How do we find migration’s Goldilocks number without the debate turning toxic?

The next regular federal election must be held by May 24, 2025, so we are – at most – 18 months away from a campaign. And if you were to predict...

29.09.2023 2

Brisbane Times

Michael Koziol

Dan Andrews was never our premier, but at times it felt like he was in charge

One peculiarity of the COVID years, much remarked upon, is how large the state premiers loomed in our lives. Those people who normally run schools and...

26.09.2023 3

WA Today

Michael Koziol

Dan Andrews was never our premier, but at times it felt like he was in charge

One peculiarity of the COVID years, much remarked upon, is how large the state premiers loomed in our lives. Those people who normally run schools and...

26.09.2023 4

Brisbane Times

Michael Koziol

Dan Andrews was never our premier, but at times it felt like he was in charge

One peculiarity of the COVID years, much remarked upon, is how large the state premiers loomed in our lives. Those people who normally run schools and...

26.09.2023 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

Dan Andrews was never our premier, but at times it felt like he was in charge

One peculiarity of the COVID years, much remarked upon, is how large the state premiers loomed in our lives. Those people who normally run schools and...

26.09.2023 8

The Age

Michael Koziol

The premier called this a housing crisis. This budget hasn’t delivered a solution

The government was awake to the severity of the housing crisis in NSW before the election. Since coming to office, it has only strengthened...

19.09.2023 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Koziol

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