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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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- Redfern program helps Indigenous youths get ahead
- For many young people all it takes is the right opportunity to get their career and their life back on track Koori Job Ready is a program set up in inner city Sydney to train young Indigenous people to work in the construction industry reports Michael Edwards for ABC’s AM on 4 April 2009.
- Cleveland Street a "deathtrap" for pedestrians and cyclists: Locals
- Cleveland Street is a death trap for cyclists and pedestrians and Erskineville Road is not much better, locals told Sydney Council at a community meeting on Wednesday reports Kim Shaw for Central on 3 April 2009.
- Dedicated to their craft.
- In a society where mass consumerism is the norm, Catherine McCormack meets four people whose livelihoods are based on craft and Tradition in VirginBlue’s April 2009 Voyeur. [Below we have extracted the portion of the article dealing with Eveleigh Blacksmith Guido Gouverneur.]
- Lucky Dip Kids Workshops - Saturdays at CarriageWorks
- LUCKY DIP WORKSHOPS is a new series of fun, creative workshops by CARRIAGEWORKS, Sydney’s home for contemporary arts and culture. Each Saturday, the activity will be a surprise ‘lucky dip’ – a different arts-based workshop each week that kids 3+ and their parents can take part in for just $5 per person says this media release from CarriageWorks on 1 April 2009.
- Block-aid
- Sydney's inner-city suburb of Redfern has had its fair share of negative media: not least of all about riots, drugs and violence. But the community is fed up with its own problems and is taking them into its own hands reports SBS’s Living Black on 30 March 2009.
- Local pubs go under the hammer
- IT HAS been a tough time for pubs. Bankers have been pulling the plug on many hotels [including Redfern’s Woolpack] and forcing distressed sales to reap back some of the cash owed reports Carolyn Cummins in the Sydney morning Herald of 28th March 2009.
- New Alcohol-Free Zones Proposed for Sydney
- The City of Sydney is to consider 73 proposals for Alcohol Free Zones (AFZ) from police and local residents across Sydney reports Annette Shailer in The Shout on 27th March 2009.
- WAYS Youth Employment Defunded
- The following statement has been circulated by Russell King CEO of ways regarding the defunding of their Youth Employment Programme covering Redfern Waterloo on 24 March 2009/
- $130M bailout helps bandage Housing’s eyesores
- “The ibis restaurant” – a corroded, road-dwelling dumpster where urban pests constantly feast, is just one of the eyesores of the Redfern-Waterloo public housing precinct reports Angus Thompson in City News on 19th March 2009.
- Darlington - Charles Kernan Reserve Plans & Community Garden Consultation - April 2009
- A small community garden is proposed within the park. Council is now seeking input from interested persons as to how this space will be developed and managed to best serve the community. A meeting will be organised for residents interested in the proposed community garden, and if you would like to be involved in the design and development of a community garden please contact Council's Community Garden Coordinator, Annie Walker. The details of the proposal are below:
- Carriage Works Market.
- In the issue of City News on 12 March, there was an article about the Eveleigh Market, which incorrectly named the market as the ‘Carriage Works Market’ writes Stephanie Zappala in this letter to City News.
- Planning outcries fall deaf on property giant’s ears
- Chippendale residents yelled at, and argued with, developers of the former Carlton United Brewery site at a community meeting last Wednesday, but Frasers Property maintain it was a success reports Alexandra Beech in City news on 12 March 2009.
- Hip Hop Heaven
- A Hip Hop Festival will be held in Sydney on March 27 and 28 2009 reports Nick Soon in the Blacktown Sun of 12 March 2009.
- Hill & Knowlton Named Marketing Agency of Record for National Indigenous Development Centre
- SYDNEY, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Hill & Knowlton Sydney (H&K) today was honoured to be named marketing agency of record for the National Indigenous Development Centre (NIDC). The NIDC, opening in Redfern later this year, will provide sporting, educational, arts/cultural and leadership development opportunities for thousands of Indigenous young people from across Australia reports Reuters on 11 march 2009.
- Opinion: Memories sacrificed on future’s altar
- From my youthful experiences, ‘heritage’ and ‘history’ are antiquated words. Old houses give me the creeps and I am at home in beige, open-plan compact living. Give me the high-rise life writes Angus Thompson in this opinion peice in City News of 11 march 2009.
- Ethical food still not cheap as chips
- Sydney’s newest fresh food markets are a running success but ‘ethically produced’ food remains out of reach for those who need it most reports Adam Black in City news of 11 March 2009.
- Foreshore Parks Languish
- FRUSTRATED city residents have called for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority's responsibilities to be passed to Sydney Council reports Robert Burton-Bradley and Kim Shaw in Central of 11 March 2009..
- RWA - ILC - YMCA Meeting Report - 17 February 2009
- [The statement below has been provided by the RWA to report on the progress of the Youth Services and the NIDC. The statement was issued as a clarification following the 4 March 09 Redfern Waterloo Issues Update article where Geoff and Lyn Turnbull, who produced the article on the ILC, were not aware that there had been a meeting with agencies over the NIDC and the role of the YMCA - REDWatch]
- What next for North Eveleigh?
- The Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s concept plan for the redevelopment of the presently deserted rail-yards at North Eveleigh has been given the tick of approval by the State Planning Minister Kristina Keneally. On January 30 Ms Keneally signed off on the plan with the hope that the 10.7-hectare site will be transformed from empty industrial shells into a new commercial precinct and 1,200 new homes with 12 per cent designated for affordable housing reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Darlington dudded, again
- A large part of the formerly gracious Victorian suburb of Darlington was first dudded in the post WWII expansion of Sydney University. A large part of it was razed – the town hall was demolished, the public school marooned on the campus, and only recently nicely landscaped writes Bruce Lay in this Opinion article in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
