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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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- Carlton & United Breweries Site Heritage Under Threat from Minister:
- The following media release was issued by Andrew Woodhouse, president, Australian Heritage Institute Inc. - an Australia-wide umbrella group of local heritage societies on Thursday 8th JUNE 2006 in response to the SCPC voting to hand the CUB site over to Minister Frank Sartor. Under the RWA Act the RWA, for which Ministrer Sartor is also the Minister, gets the Affordable Housing levy from the CUB Site.
- Kristina Keneally Backs Watertower Residents on Marian Street Park
- Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald 8 June 2006 contained the following article in which she anounced "I am writing to the Minister for Redfern and Waterloo to ask that he to listen to their concerns and to use the BEP to zone Marian Street Park as open space. This will ensure that the park remains a park. This would give local residents certainty. I also ask the Minister to develop a plan for the future maintenance of the park to ensure the park remains a valuable asset for the local community". The article says:
- Heffron wins Public and Affordable Housing in Budget
- The Iemma Government will spend over $20 million to provide much-needed affordable and public housing in the Heffron electorate reports Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald 8 June 2006.
- POETS CORNER PRESCHOOL GETS NEW PLACES AND MORE SUPPORT
- Inner Sydney families are to benefit from an immediate $318,527 investment in local preschools under the NSW Governments $85.2 million Preschool Investment Plan reports Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald 8 June 2006.
- Rachel Foster should be considered for aged-care - SSH June 2006
- A Melbourne-based company has approached the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA)expressing an interest in operating an aged-care facility on the site of the former Rachel Foster Hospital in Redfern’s Pitt Street reports Alice Mulheron in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Local MP calls for street drinkers to be moved onto Wet Centres - SSH June 2006
- The concept of Wet Centres to target street drinking has been raised as new Alcohol Free Zones (AFZs) are to be implemented in Redfern-Waterloo. Federal member for Heffron, Kristina Keneally, has raised the prospect of Wet Centres as an alternative strategy that could compliment Alcohol Free Zones reports Bill Birtles in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Inner city, government buses not good enough - SSH June 2006
- A number of inner city bus services linking South Sydney to the CBD and beyond are consistently overcrowded and unreliable, leaving commuters stranded with no transportation reports Todd Dagwell in South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- NSW Government Aboriginal Affairs Plan – For everywhere but in Redfern? - SSH June 2006
- In 2003, the NSW Government agreed to a policy called “Two Ways Together Partnerships: A New Way of Doing Business with Aboriginal People”. It was to run until 2012. Report from The South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Redfern Police Station has its formal opening - SSH June 2006
- A good cross-section of the Redfern-Waterloo community was at the ceremony for the official opening of the new Redfern Police Station on Friday 19 May by the NSW Minister for Police, Carl Scully reports Trevor Davies in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Midnight Basketball pilot sends warm ripples through the community - SSH June 2006
- Midnight Basketball, an educational and basketball program for kids, was launched for the first time in Australia in the Redfern/Waterloo area in February this year reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Sartor slammed over CUB
- SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore accused NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor of making a multi-million-dollar "cash grab" yesterday by contemplating higher density at Foster's Group's $1 billion-plus CUB site development in Sydney's Chippendale, in exchange for higher affordable housing levies reports Paddy Manning in The Australian June 03, 2006.
- State Government Action Threatens CUB Site - 2 June 2006
- An eleventh hour grab for cash by the State Government is jeopardising two years of careful planning to set development controls and achieve community benefit from redevelopment of the historic Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale reports Clover Moore in her E-News and a media statement.
- School idea a boost for Aborigines
- A PRIVATE school's move to open an inner-city school for Aboriginal children has been met with enthusiasm, prompting offers of funding support from the community reports Hannah Edwards Sun Herald May 28, 2006.
- A college of dreams - 21 May 2006
- ONE of Australia's oldest private schools plans to establish a school for Aborigines to try to raise education standards among indigenous children reports Hannah Edwards in the Sun Herald May 21, 2006.
- Aborigines caught in vicious circle of housing neglect - 15 May 2006
- ABORIGINAL housing in many remote communities is so run-down through lack of cash that building new dwellings is pointless, a housing research body study has found, reports Debra Jopson in the SMH.
- ROCK THE BLOCK FESTIVAL A HARMONIOUS AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS
- The following article has appeared on the Redfern-Waterloo Yahoo group and the Stop the War Coalition web site in Sydney about the event.
- Aboriginal leaders, church in feud over memorial seat - 3 May 2006
- A ROW has erupted over the fate of a memorial seat to the Aboriginal activist Mum Shirl reports Linda Morris in the SMH.
- Redfern Waterloo Residents Demand SEPP be Withdrawn - 3 May 2006
- The text of the REDWatch Media Release is below:
- For our cultural desert's sake, roll them off to rot - 3 may 2006
- Elizabeth Farrelly in the SMH looks at the 3801, Heritage and the Redfern Waterloo Plan.
- Public Housing Tenants Lose 70 Per cent of Wages Under new Rent Reforms
- The following media statement was issued by the Tenants Union of NSW Co-op Ltd at the beginning of May 2006.
