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...public housing - the Green Valley estate on the city's southwestern fringe. The area was settled before basic services - sewerage, hospitals, child care, transport and leisure facilities - were established. The self-proclaimed champion of the urban sprawl was Labor leader Whitlam, federal member for Werriwa (1952-78). He put suburban issues into the mainstream of politics. "I was always interested in why Green Valley didn't have the sort of facilities that other parts of Sydney took for granted," Latham told biographer Craig McGregor. "What is it that causes advantage and disadvantage? Why is it that our family didn...
...have been transformed. "In my 25 years of political involvement in the outer suburbs," Latham wrote in From the Suburbs (2003), "there has only ever been one issue. How do we move the jobs and services to where the people have moved?" As well as hosting the poor, the suburban fringe is now becoming home to small-business people and the upwardly mobile. Prosperity is found in the next neighborhood, not 50 km away in the city's north. "The politics of envy has been replaced by the politics of aspiration," Latham wrote years ago, identifying a cause...
...original Sims, in which you controlled the daily lives of simulated humans onscreen, was all about keeping your characters alive and prosperous in a generic suburban setting. Released in February 2000, it is the best-selling computer game ever. The sequel, out this week for $50, is much more imaginative. As with the original, you can start out the hard way by designing characters from scratch, building a house and searching the want ads for entry-level jobs. But you can also take over the lives of more than a dozen quirky pre-made families. In Veronaville, you can play...
DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and paternal driving force behind the Ramones, the seminal rock band that defined the 1970s punk movement; of prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Born John Cummings in suburban New York, he and three other teens formed the group in 1974, taking the name from an alias Paul McCartney sometimes used in hotels. During the next 22 years, the band developed an underground following with its raw style of fast, angst-ridden music, including anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop. Despite his rebellious lyrics, Ramone (the third member of the group...
...influence and acting as peace broker between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and paternal driving force behind the Ramones, the rock band that defined the 1970s punk movement; of prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Born John Cummings in suburban New York, he and three other teens formed the group in 1974, taking the name from an alias Paul McCartney sometimes used in hotels. During the next 22 years they developed an underground following with their fast, angst-ridden music, including anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop. Despite...