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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.
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- Heritage blacksmith workshop told to close
- History could be torn from its roots in one of Sydney’s most historic precincts if the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s (RWA) eviction of the blacksmiths at the Eveleigh Railway Yard substantiates reports Emma Kemp in City News of 5th July 2008.
- ATP Blacksmith Shop - Sartor breaks Department of Planning promise
- Wrought Artworks the self-funding operators of the historical Eveleigh Blacksmithing Bays of 17 years are under threat of closure from the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports this media release from Wrought Artworks of 3rd July 2008.
- DoP Draft Sydney City Subregional Strategy Released - comment closes 5 September 2008
- The Department of Planning has released the Metropolitian Plan’s Draft Sydney City Subregional Strategy. The Sydney City subregion is based on the boundaries of the City of Sydney local government area. This subregion occupies a central and strategic part of the Greater Metropolitan Region. This is the same area covered by Council’s recent Sustainable Sydney 2030.
- Luncheon Club’s changing of the guard
- Since 1993, Carole Ann King has been the founder and driving force behind Sydney’s Luncheon Club which provides meals and food supplies for people living with HIV/AIDS reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Temple trustees frustrated
- Blink and you could miss the heritage-listed Yiu Ming Temple in Alexandria. Shadowed by the giant construction site next door, the green-tiled roof of the entrance is almost obscured by the temporary fencing that blocks the road to its gate. Access to the Temple grounds is now a narrow strip of footpath reports Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Robert Domm appointed CEO of Harbour Foreshore Authority
- Planning Minister Frank Sartor has announced the appointment of Mr Robert Domm as the new CEO of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (commencing July 21), which has responsibility for managing The Rocks and Darling Harbour along with other key waterfront sites such as the new Ballast Point Park. In the short to medium term Mr Domm will retain his job at the RWA to see through a number of major projects.
- Food… good for the heart
- I watched my three-year-old niece’s pupils dilate the other day, after a brief temper tantrum, when mum gave her, “bed-time milk in a bottle” – this despite the fact it wasn't bed-time and the girl had only just demolished her favourite pasta dish. A sure indication that we humans, especially kids, steer towards those milky, starchy carbohydrates, not only when we are hungry, but for the sake of sheer endorphin-releasing pleasure reports Scott Winter in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Chefs against a GM nation
- Top Australian chefs gathered at Waterloo’s Dank Street Depot to speak out against genetically modified foods in Australia reports Candice Chung in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Vale Brenda Maling
- South Sydney lost another of its community leaders with the untimely death of Brenda Maling at Prince of Wales Hospital on June 15. She succumbed to cancer after a long battle. She worked on as the coordinator of the Aboriginal Resource Centre (a job she had held for 12 years) until a couple of weeks before her death reports Barrie McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Gathering Ground a resounding success
- With over 2000 people attending Blockside Story 2008 over 3 nights, the phenomena of Gathering Ground can only be described as a resounding success reports Jane Barton in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- The City develops an Aboriginal Cultural Centre
- Much history has been recorded of white settlement in Australia, but little has been written about the culture and history of its original owners reports Susannah Palk in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- AHC supports army recruitment project
- The Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) is preparing to introduce a new project that will recruit disadvantaged Aboriginal youths into the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The project is aimed at providing an alternative to gaol with employment opportunities and skills training for young Aboriginal people on The Block reports Christine Dellenty in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Passionate Indigenous advocate resigns
- The former Coordinator of the now defunct Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) run by the Redfern Aboriginal Corporation and a passionate advocate for Indigenous welfare is calling it quits after 12 years reports Sarah Malik in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Libs back Pemulwuy, more police and transport
- A Liberal State Government would approve the Aboriginal Housing Company’s Pemulwuy Project (AHC), promote community-minded policing in and around Redfern, and would seek better transportation infrastructure to encourage people to use it reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Shepherd Street in trouble
- The tranquil existence of Darlington residents may be in further jeopardy from the proposed development of the North Eveleigh site. Its tiny streets, already clogged with the car and foot traffic stemming from Sydney University, are facing further increases reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of July 2008.
- Tucker tricks
- A new culinary centre creates special native menus, reports Kelsey Munro in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1st July 2008.
- RWA, AHC and the Block in Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage
- There are many references to Redfern in the Standing Committee on Social Issues Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales Interim Report June 2008. Here we have extracted two sections about the RWA and Aboriginal Housing Company that deal with one of the ongoing issues in Redfern – Aboriginal Housing on the Block. The Committee has called for reconsideration of the proposed fee $60,000 lodgement fee for the Pemulwuy Project Concept plan.
- 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]
