Australia Day events: What’s happening in Sydney?

A ferry on Sydney Harbour with the Sydney Opera House in the background.

Australia Day in Sydney is right around the corner and Destination NSW has a number of events planned for Sunday, January 26. In 2025, Australia Day honours the theme of “Reflect, Respect and Celebrate” with tens of thousands of people expected to get involved in the series of free events and activities this year, from

Sydney’s ultra-rare Corpse Flower, “Putricia,” blooms for the first time in 15 years

A Corpse Flower blooming in Sydney

Over the past 12 months Sydney has benefitted from a bunch of rare astronomical events and super moons, but the sky isn’t exactly exclusive territory for the harbour city. What is exclusive, however, is our world-famous Royal Botanic Garden which is this week witnessing something incredibly rare, exciting and… smelly. The botanical spectacle is the

New Openings Sydney 2025: Restaurants, Hotels, Bars, Musicals & More

a courtyard with trees

2024 was a banner year for Sydney. Not only did we finally get the futuristic next phase of Sydney Metro and the revival of Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, but we also got an exhaustingly long list of high-profile food and drink openings from Olympus Dining and Neptune’s Grotto to Joji and Letra House. Other big things

Sydney celebrates as Shark Beach reopens after three long years

Shark Beach in Nielsen Park, Sydney

Sydneysiders have let out a sigh of relief as the beloved Shark Beach at Nielsen Park in Vaucluse officially reopened on Thursday, December 12. The popular harbour beach, defined by its placid, protected waters and gentle shores, was inaccessible for the past three summers, shuttered in 2022 by the National Parks and Wildlife Service after