Media Articles on Redfern Waterloo

This is a selection of major news items about Redfern Waterloo from various media outlets. The AHC also has a good selection of the stories about the Block in their media news section at http://www.ahc.org.au. You can get up to date news by setting up a Google News alert at http://www.google.com/alerts. News Alerts will not pick up local media and some mainstream media stories which do not appear on a news website, where possible we put these stories on our website to provide wide access to the stories.

Just go nuts

The cavernous foyer of Redfern's CarriageWorks may have met its match in this year's Underbelly Festival reports Leesha McKenny in the Sydney Morning Herald of June 27, 2008.

Block tower

One American artist recruited Redfern's indigenous community for his visionary project. American artist Michael Rakowitz arrived at a lunch at Redfern Community Centre in March armed with sketches of an idea for the Biennale writes Josephine Tovey Sydney Morning Herald of June 23, 2008.

Traders of the Lost Arts – Guido Gouverneur Blacksmith

Geraldine O’Brien meets a small group of passionate people who keep the skills of a bygone era safe for the future in this article in the the(sydney)magazine July 08. [One of those people is Guido Gouverneur who has been served with a notice to quit his Australian Technology Park workshop by the RWA / ATP – we have reproduced the extract on Guido from the(Sydney)magazine article given the campaign to keep Guido at one of the last two functioning sections of the old Eveleigh Railyards – REDWatch]

Uni plans to build an arc

SYDNEY University has unveiled plans to create a $2 billion educational arc that includes Callan Park, Harold Park and North Eveleigh reports the Glebe on Wednesday 25 June, 2008.

Carrying Away the Carriages

THE volunteers of Eveleigh's Large Erecting Shop have dedicated more than 21 years to restoring heritage equipment and rolling stock. Now RailCorp has announced it is selling more than 130 items, many of which were restored at the Large Erecting Shopreports Jennifer Bennett in the Central of 25th June 2008.

Department Acts to Equip Playground

A Central campaign to fix unsafe playgrounds in Waterloo public housing has succeeded after the intervention of the Housing Minister reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 25 june 2008.

School's out - to take over half the city

IT MAY one day be known as the university that ate Sydney. The University of Sydney has swallowed half of Darlington and is set to take Callan Park, and now a capital development masterplan for the next 12 years reveals it also has designs on North Eveleigh and Harold Park reports Harriet Alexander Higher Education Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of June 23, 2008.

Officers stand by claims of corruption in AFP

AS A growing band of federal police stationed inside Redfern's TNT towers spiralled out of control in late 1988, two NSW detectives took an extraordinary stand reports Steve Barrett and John Kidman in the Sun Herald of June 22, 2008.

How elite agents went off the rails

THEY were the untouchables, an elite band of Australian Federal Police, some of whom insiders say were no better than "gangsters with police badges" reports John Kidman and Steve Barrett in the Sun Herald of June 22, 2008.

Uni Growth Fears

A DRAFT plan for the $2 billion future development at the University of Sydney is making its neighbours nervous reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 18 June 2008.

Labor Prepares for Elections

LABOR members have selected a representative team to join mayoral hopeful Meredith Burgmann on the Labor team for Sydney Council's elections in September reports the Central of 18 June 2008.

Urban Indigenous Body to Form

SYDNEY Council is seeking applicants for its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Panel, the first of its kind in the city reports Jennifer Bennett in the Central of 18 June 2008.

Little Big Shots Stand Up to Bullies

WATERLOO pupils will become movie stars when their DVD Good Dog Bad Dog tours the country as part of Little Big Shots, the largest film festival for kids in the Southern Hemisphere reports the Central of 18 June 2008.

When the shed rules the heart

TO lure Melbourne's Anna Schwartz to Sydney was always going to require an extraordinary gallery space reports Corrie Perkin in the Australian of June 13, 2008.

Celebrating Aboriginal Culture

The City is working towards greater cooperation and reconciliation with our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities by creating opportunities for cultural and economic sustainability reports CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 13 June 2008.

‘Ningla-a-Na’ - Screening of the 1972 'Aboriginal Embassy' demonstrations

Inner West Film Fanatics will screen the 16 mm print of NINGLA A-NA, (1972, 72 min) at the Petersham Bowling Club on Tuesday June 24th at 7.00 p.m. In 1972 at the peak of Aboriginal political militancy in Australia, two Italian brothers, Allessandro and Fabio Cavadini, made a film called ‘Ningla-a-Na’ about the 'Aboriginal Embassy' demonstrations in Sydney and Canberra that year.

The dirt on wonder worms

It's easy to get a wriggle on when it comes to composting, writes Steve Dow in the Sydney Morning Herald of June 11, 2008. I have come to Redfern to see a man about some worms. A 250-gram, $30 package of 1000 of this man's red and tiger worms will get the party started.

Redfern RSL Explores its Potential

REDFERN RSL is now up for grabs to developers, and could potentially become an 18-storey building reports Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 11 June 2008g.

Delay Costing Lives

A HOUSING, educational and cultural plan for Redfern will save lives - and needs to be fast-tracked for senseless and violent deaths to stop, according to Aboriginal activist Mick Mundine reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 11 June 2008.

Woolworths takes fight to Erskinville

THE developer behind a proposed two-storey supermarket for Erskineville has taken the matter to the Land and Environment Court after Sydney Council rejected his development application reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 11 June 2008.