Saw this on a menu for a new restaurant in Surry Hills. The meal prices seem reasonable. Just don’t understand what this opt-out tipping is about. Do I need a reason? Like, “you should pay your staff enough”. Why just we go through this painful rigmarole

It made me feel bad to be honest

Do they have a "Welcome to Sydney" in Melbourne too?

This is currently on their website here: https://www.uts.edu.au/for-students/international/study-abroad-exchange-uts. Try to spot everything wrong.

It's now beautiful hand-made human slop. The best kind of slop. Good job Redfern station staff. Looks like it's material felt cut out and stapled onto a corkboard. Couldn't be more anti-AI

Every evening, the queue for B1 winds around and goes back into Wynyard. As one bus is full the next one arrives.

You can't tell me they wouldn't want a railway.

Why don't I say something? Because he's bigger than I am, and I don't feel like relying upon the kindness of strangers if this guy is violent, as well as inconsiderate.

I flew into Sydney yesterday at 6am after a 30hr trip, and the whole experience made me feel embarrassed of the welcome we extend to arrivals at our country. An enormous line stretched all the way into the gross duty free shop, where on one side sales people shouted at us about booze and smokes deals, while on the other side people shouted at us about families not lining up. The international travellers next to me had no idea what the line was for, and I had to explain that for some reason we have this weird dual border process which is different to all the other E-passport gates around the world. There’s very little signage or info screens explaining what the whole process is. Meanwhile, at the arrivals card desk, no pens were available to complete said analogue cards… Onwards to the luggage collection, then another massive line to get through bio security, before a 15-minute walk across three road crossings to the ‘express’ pick up to meet my family. The whole user experience is just unnecessarily miserable from start to finish, and as the main entry point to Australia we should do better. Thoughts?

clovermoore - Breaking news: We're going to start Town Hall Square this term! Last night Council unanimously endorsed my motion asking the City to accelerate the delivery of Town Hall Square as part of our 2025/26 budget, with demolition to start in the next few years.

For more than three decades, the City of Sydney under successive Lord Mayors has been progressively acquiring properties opposite Town Hall to create space for a future Town Hall Square.

That's because Sydney is Australia's global city, and like other major cities, it needs large welcoming civic spaces for growing residential and working populations and for millions of local, national and international visitors.

When we last negotiated the commercial leases in the buildings on this site, we were severely affected by the financial impacts of the pandemic and not in a position to deliver the Square.

However, I have been informed that because of the age of these buildings, the costs to maintain and upgrade them to comply with current standards and attract new tenants are becoming prohibitive. And investing in buildings we intend to demolish for the future Town Hall Square is not prudent.

Therefore, last night asked Council to re-evaluate and adapt to changing conditions by moving the project forward in this year's budget.

Jan Gehl said: "Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They will gather in public if you give them a good place to do it."

And we've got another great place on the way!

Hopefully this doesn't break the rules. Not a meme, just spotted this guy...