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What do we lose when our old suburbs disappear?

  • Written by Felicity Castagna, Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University
What do we lose when our old suburbs disappear?Day Day Market, ParramattaPhoto: Garry Trinh

I live on the edge of Parramatta, Australia’s fastest-growing city, on the kind of old-fashioned suburban street that has 1950s fibros constructed in the post-war housing boom, double-storey brick homes with Greek columns that aspirational migrants built in the 1970s and half-crumbling, Federation-e...

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