Haunting phone calls, an empty restaurant: how an artist recreated western Sydney by night

Inspired by her insomnia, Roslyn Oades invited Sydneysiders to call an anonymous late-night message service

In early 2017, posters started to appear across Parramatta in Western Sydney. They invited those still awake in the long hours of the night – the restless, the lost, the sad and the lonely – to call “The Nightline”.

The plea was, in more ways than one, a shout into the dark. Yet hundreds phoned in. The anonymous messaging service provided a confessional and, occasionally, companionship. Some callers recited poems; others ghost stories; others sang whimsical, sorrowful songs down the phone; others just cried.

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