Caitlin Fitzsimmons | The Sydney Morning Herald

We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later.

Advertisement

Caitlin Fitzsimmons is a senior writer in the Sydney newsroom focused on social affairs.

Gay conversion law would ban suppression of gender identity
Exclusive
LGBTQ

Gay conversion law would ban suppression of gender identity

The NSW government’s plans to ban gay conversion practices will be extended to include making it illegal to change or suppress a person identifying as trans or gender diverse.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Latest

Generation Lonely: Two in five young adults are flying solo

Generation Lonely: Two in five young adults are flying solo

People aged 18 to 24 are the most lonesome generation, followed by those aged 45 to 54. They are also the most likely to report social media addiction.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Separated, but living together: The rising trend of being flatmates with an ex
Exclusive
Renting

Separated, but living together: The rising trend of being flatmates with an ex

National figures show a 47 per cent rise in the number of separated couples living under the one roof in the past five years.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Mother and newborn baby face homelessness in rental crisis
Exclusive
Renting

Mother and newborn baby face homelessness in rental crisis

A Sydney woman has spent almost two years in a private rental flat in disrepair while on the priority list for social housing. Now the landlord wants her and her six-week-old baby gone.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
We all know about the stolen generations. We didn’t always hear about those who opposed the law at the time

We all know about the stolen generations. We didn’t always hear about those who opposed the law at the time

An ambitious truth-telling project outlines the ‘bucketloads of law’ that dispossessed First Nations people – and also the white dissenters at the time.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘I’m living on optimism’: Pearson finds hope for Voice in a Sydney Westfield

‘I’m living on optimism’: Pearson finds hope for Voice in a Sydney Westfield

The Indigenous leader from Cape York was joined by Liberal politicians as he talked to shoppers and store owners at Hornsby in northern Sydney.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Advertisement
Kim was a lifelong renter. Now she owns two apartments
Exclusive
Inheritance

Kim was a lifelong renter. Now she owns two apartments

Kim is one of the Australians benefitting from a trend dubbed the ‘great wealth transfer’, under which $3.5 trillion will change hands by 2050.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Forty firefighters extinguish Greenacre blaze producing toxic smoke

Forty firefighters extinguish Greenacre blaze producing toxic smoke

Residents in a south-western Sydney suburb were warned to stay indoors to avoid toxic smoke from a fire in a scrap metal yard, as 40 firefighters battled the blaze.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Phone tower plans spark a clash of cultures in exclusive coastal enclave

Phone tower plans spark a clash of cultures in exclusive coastal enclave

A parcel of land nestled amid the exclusive Central Coast properties is at the centre of a stoush between ancient cultural practice and 21st century technology.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The men who want friendships like women have

The men who want friendships like women have

In more than 100 pubs, restaurants and clubs around NSW, groups of men are gathering every month.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Newtown v Bondi: The race to open Sydney’s first cannabis dispensary

Newtown v Bondi: The race to open Sydney’s first cannabis dispensary

Eidan Havas has been waiting on Pharmacy Council approval for Sydney’s first in-person cannabis dispensary since January. But as he waits, a rival has emerged.

  • by Jordan Baker and Caitlin Fitzsimmons