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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. 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.
City of Sydney Mayoral Minute on RWA Built Environment Plan
Below we have provided the Mayoral Minute to City of Sydney Council which sets out the basis on which the City of Syndey will produce a submission to the RWA concerning the RWA Draft Built Environment Plan.
Can't box, can get smacked - 25 February 2006
How come young kids can get high, can get killed, can hang out on the streets but can't learn the sweet science, asks Stephen Gibbs? SMH February 25, 2006
Differ on Redfern - 24 February 2006
This letter from Peter Valilis of the Aboriginal Housing Company Ltd Redfern ran in the Letters section of the SMH on 24th February 2006 in response to RWA Minister Frank Sartor's Opinion peice "Symbolism cannot solve unemployment and social misery" SMH February 22.
Symbolism cannot solve unemployment and social misery
Redfern and Waterloo are bigger than just one block, however needy, writes Frank Sartor in an Opinion piece in the SMH February 22, 2006
Initiative filed in dustbin
The following letter from Verity Firth appeared in the Australian on 21 February 2006 in response to Ross Fitzgeralds Opinion article "Another time around the Block for urban revival project" of 20th February 2006.
Ross Fitzgerald: Another time around the Block for urban revival
In this Opinion peice in the Australian of 20 February 2006 Ross Fitzgerald argues: After years of failure, plans to kick-start an inner Sydney wasteland are worth serious consideration
RWA BUILT ENVIRONMENT PLAN LANDS
This article is taken from CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 17 February 2006 - No. 284 and provides Clover Moore's views on the Redfern Waterloo Built Environment Plan.
Indigenous heartland under threat
Redfern's Aboriginal heritage could be lost to a restoration project that favours business, writes Verity Firth in SMH February 15, 2006
A fixation that improvement means tall buildings
SMH Letters February 14, 2006
Revamp for Redfern ignores railway heritage - 13 February 2006
Bonnie Malkin SMH Urban Affairs Reporter reports SYDNEY may lose a large part of its railway heritage under plans to revamp Redfern and Waterloo, the National Trust has warned.
Trust worried Redfern Waterloo Authority Plan is on the wrong track
The following Media release was issued by the National Trust on 13 February concening the RWA Draft Built environment Plan.
Souths' oval to be razed - 11 February 2006
By JOSH MASSOUD in the Daily Telegraph reports SYDNEY City Council will spend $500,000 to demolish the contaminated Redfern Oval - and the Rabbitohs won't stop them.
New plan on the Block unwelcome to owners - 10 February 2006
Bonnie Malkin and Sherrill Nixon Sydney Morning Herald February 10, 2006 report that: THE symbolic heart of Sydney's Aboriginal community - the Block in Redfern - will be transformed into a bustling commercial hub under a State Government plan to attract investors and reverse the fortunes of the troubled inner-city site.
Draft Built Environment Plan to Drive Jobs Growth in Redfern & Waterloo - 10 February 2006
Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald 10 February 2006 No. 2 on the release of the RWA Built Environment Plan.
Firth Calls on Sartor to Rethink Pemulwuy Decision - 10 February 2006
Media Release from Verity Firth Deputy Lord Mayor, City of Sydney 10 February, 2006.
CITY SUPPORTS MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL - 10 February 2006
The City of Sydney has contributed $12,500 to Midnight Basketball for Redfern-Waterloo, an innovative sports program which aims to give young people life skills while diverting them from crime and anti-social behaviour.
Aboriginal anger as Block rezoned - 10 February 2006
John Stapleton in The Australian reports that LONGSTANDING tensions between Sydney's Redfern Aboriginal community and the NSW Government escalated yesterday after Planning Minister Frank Sartor announced that Redfern's Block, a centre of Aboriginal activism for more than 30 years, would be rezoned for commercial use.
Teenagers shoot hoops to avoid the weekend's pitfalls - 9 February 2006
Bonnie Malkin Urban Affairs Reporter Sydney Morning Herald reports: REDFERN has a new weapon in the fight against crime: basketball. The Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Frank Sartor, and the West Sydney Razorbacks have launched the Midnight Basketball Tournament to lure young people off the streets and into Alexandria Park Community School to play the game.
Sartor changes zoning of the Block to commercial - 9 February 2006
Aboriginal Housing Company Media release 9 February 2006.
Redfern redevelopment plan not about moving Aborigines: Minister - 9 February 2006
The final stage of the New South Wales Government's plan to redevelop Redfern has been released.
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