Paris
‘Social cleansing’: To make way for Olympics, Paris clears thousands of homeless
Last week alone around 470 people were removed from camps located along the Canal de l’Ourcq, on the route of the Olympic flame on July 25
- by Rob Harris
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Opinion
Column 8
Care packages sent via snail mail
While EV indicating proves to be a Fiat worse than death.
Opinion
Olympics
Traffic jams, sirens and delays: Here’s what Paris is like right now
Much of the city centre will shortly be off limits to tourists who don’t have tickets for the Games. But, even now, getting around is a struggle.
- by Anthony Dennis
Qantas’ new non-stop route to Europe takes off
The Flying Kangaroo is to make an overdue return to Paris, timed to coincide with the Olympic Games.
- by Anthony Dennis
River Seine is good to swim in, says Meares
Australian chef de mission Anna Meares says water quality in the River Seine is now at acceptable levels.
- by Tom Decent
Opinion
France
It stinks, it’s polluted and I wouldn’t swim in it, but I love the Seine
French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hildegard promised earlier this year that they would swim in the Seine before the Olympics. It’s possible Macron called an election to avoid the task.
- by Lee Tulloch
Major tourist attraction set to close in Paris
Centre Pompidou, Paris’s famous contemporary art gallery, will start to close for renovations in the northern autumn before a complete shutdown next year.
- by Julietta Jameson
Seine awash with bacteria one month before open-water Olympic swimming
For the third consecutive week, water in the Paris river has exhibited unsafe levels of E.coli, raising concerns with the Olympics weeks away.
- by Rob Harris
Magazine
Sunday Life
The June 23 Edition
With the Olympic Games just a month away, the eyes of the world will be on Paris. We talk to four athletes who will be going for gold with their babies in tow.
How to spend a perfect weekend in Paris according to six tastemakers
From homeware stores to old-fashioned bistros, we asked some high-profile Australians to share their Parisian haunts.
- by Jane Rocca
Tres chic: how to nail French-girl beauty with little effort
The tousled fringe, barely there make-up and a general “je ne sais quoi” sum up that quintessential Gallic look.
- by Stephanie Darling