Why Sydney is getting left behind

Marion Fulker, CEO discusses in Business Insider why she thinks Sydney is getting left behind while the rest of Australia's cities get on with it.

I am a Sydney girl living in Perth, which means that my loyalties are divided between the two cities.

Sydney has long been the beacon for Australia with its globally recognised icon, the Sydney Opera House. It is Australia’s de facto capital, the centre for the banking and finance sectors and our only world city.

If you live in Sydney you have a certain arrogance about you, with little regard for the rest of Australia. The same as Londoners do about the United Kingdom and New Yorkers have about the United States.

A good friend who was also raised in Sydney and is now an academic focused on design and landscape is as fascinated about cities as I am. He says “Sydney is a pretty girl in a great frock.”