The Sydney Metro is having a huge impact on schools in North Sydney – and the Wageners were ahead of the curve.

Six months ago, the doors opened to a shiny new stretch of Sydney Metro – 15 kilometres of new subterranean tunnels connecting Sydney from Chatswood in the north to Sydenham in the Inner West.

Hughes had represented West Sydney for Labor until the conscription split forced him to move interstate and represent Bendigo 1917-22, returning to NSW to contest North Sydney in 1922. Hughes ...