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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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- STOLEN GENERATION SEEK STOLEN WAGES
- PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to indigenous Australians failed to address financial compensation and wages taken from aboriginal minors employed as domestic servants, according to members of the stolen generations writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the central of 28th May 2008.
- Power pair Russell Crowe and Robert Holmes a Court pumped $5m into Rabbitohs
- SAVING the South Sydney Rabbitohs has cost Peter Holmes a Court and Russell Crowe $5 million, with Crowe putting $1million of his own money into the club on the day Mr Holmes a Court relinquished control of the board reports Brent Read and Anthony Klan in the Australian of May 28, 2008.
- Souths coach berates Crowe
- THE Souths coach, Jason Taylor, was swearing and shaking his head. The Hollywood actor Russell Crowe listened, stony-faced and chain-smoking Jessica Halloran and Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of May 27, 2008.
- Rabbitohs and Souths Cares Provide Answers on Souths Cares Funding
- The South Sydney Rabbitohs and Souths Cares have responded to unsubstantiated reports today in this media release of 27 May 2008 that the charitable arm of the Club has not accounted for $2 million of Federal Government funding.
- Hip to be square
- Gathering Ground celebrates the children and community of the Block. Stephen Dunne reports in the Sydney Morning Herald of May 23, 2008.
- Aboriginal man 'stabbed to death' at The Block
- A MASSIVE police presence, including Public Order and Riot Squad have arrived at The Block, after the overnight stabbing murder of a 23-year-old Aboriginal man in the Redfern's notorious Everleigh Street last night reports Lauren Wiliams The Daily Telegraph May 22, 2008.
- Mick Mundine - On the streets of Redfern, there's a new day rising
- Years ago the Gadigal - Sydney's Aboriginal people - travelled in a circle. They'd spend six months at a waterhole, eat, drink, fish, hunt and dance. When water got low or food got scarce, they'd move onto the next waterhole. A few seasons later they'd come back to find the waterhole was full and all the animals had returned. The cycle began again reports Time Out Sydney Wednesday 21st May 2008.
- Walkabout #6: The Block, Redfern (2010)
- Urban slum, Aboriginal icon or real-estate goldmine? Depending on the beholder, The Block signifies many different things and inspires both fear and affection in Sydneysiders. Barely 8,000 square metres in size, it's cordoned off from the rest of Redfern by four streets - Eveleigh, Caroline, Hugo and Hudson. Within that perimeter stands a patch of land that smoulders with relentless controversy and spirit.
- Redfern-Waterloo on the Up
- This letter from Robert Domm Chief Executive Officer Redfern Waterloo Authority appeared in the letter / opinion page of the central of 21st May 2008 in response to the article last week on human services.
- Redfern Playgrounds Kerfuffle
- This letter from Nicola Cunningham appeared in the letter / opinion page of the central of 21st May 2008 in response to the article and letter last week on the need for more fenced playground in Redfern.
- Victory for Village Life - No Woolworths to be built in Erskineville
- ERSKINEVILLE residents have claimed victory in their fight to prevent a two-storey Woolworths supermarket being built at the Hive Complex on Erskineville Rd writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 21 May2008.
- An Opera House for Everybody - Applause for $5 tickets
- A CHARITABLE program that makes $5 Opera House tickets available to low-income earners is transforming lives with a dose of high culture reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 21 May2008.
- Budget: Health, Education Benefit - Windfall for local services
- THE Federal Budget, handed down last week, included almost $50 million for local universities and $50 million for cancer research at Camperdown writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 21 May 2008.
- Watpac wins Seven network construction project
- QUEENSLAND-based construction firm Watpac has won the contract to build the Seven Network's new $120 million headquarters in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern.
- Fee too much for Block project
- THE Aboriginal Housing Company has accused the Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, of "trying to crucify" an ambitious housing plan for the Block in Redfern after his department refused to waive a $60,000 development application processing fee for the project reports Sunanda Creagh the Sydney Morning Heralds Urban Affairs Reporter on May 20, 2008.
- NSW urged to revive Block makeover
- The New South Wales Government is being pushed to waive a $60,000 fee to revive the Aboriginal Housing Company's stalled plan to rebuild The Block in inner Sydney reports ABC news on 20th May 2008.
- Holmes a Court to quit Souths
- JUST a few months after appointing himself executive chairman of the Rabbitohs, embattled South Sydney co-owner Peter Holmes a Court has revealed he will quit before the end of the season reports Rothfield and Rebecca Wilson in The Sunday Telegraph of May 18, 2008.
- Lord Mayor Comments on North Eveleigh Plans on Exhibition
- At City of Sydney Council Meeting Lord Mayor Clover Moore requested the City to prepare a submission examining a number of areas of concern about the proposed North Eveleigh plans. In her eNews of Friday 16 May 2008 she also made comment on the plans. REDWatch has detailed both below.
- Community Service Crisis
- SERIOUS concerns have been raised about the future of community services provided by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority when its funding runs out in less than two months.
- Facelift to make North Eveleigh a Cultural Hub
- A DRAMATIC plan for the redevelopment of North Eveleigh has been unveiled by Minister for Planning and Redfern-Waterloo, Frank Sartor. The site of the former Eveleigh rail yards wit? be transformed into 1260 apartments, markets, cafes and open space in a new draft concept plan for the site reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 14th May 2008.
