Brand Sydney seeks Holmes a Court

THE prominent businessmen and former South Sydney Rabbitohs chairman Peter Holmes a Court is expected to be appointed to head a new body charged with steering Sydney's brand as a global city.

It's time for the old grey mayor

To fulfil Kevin Rudd's "big Australia" promise of 60 per cent population growth by 2050, Sydney will bear the brunt of the expansion, almost doubling in size to 7 million people. We must "embrace" this inevitability, a forum of planners, bureaucrats and business types agreed this week.