Elizabeth Farrelly is to Sydney what Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees. As an immigrant to the city, she has the keen and objective eye of an anthropologist studying a civilization in real time, and as (now) a long-time resident, she is an active citizen, wrapped in its joys and vehemently protective of its spirit, civic nature and urbanity.
Farrelly describes her most recent book, Killing Sydney (Picador, 2021), as “part love-song and part jeremiad.” But this is no Disney princess
