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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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- The Invisible Minister for Redfern Waterloo
- REDWatch issued the following Media Statement on March 20 2006 prior to the NSW Cabinet meeting in Ashfield.
- How the planning system stifles debate - 17 March 2006
- In NSW bureaucrats have too much power to make crucial decisions on development, writes Robert Stokes in Sydney Morning Herald March 17 2006.
- Battle for the streets – 13 March 2006
- Plans to fix Sydney's Aboriginal ghetto have angered locals and white activists. But that does nothing to solve The Block's problems, writes Imre Salusinszky. Imre Salusinszky is The Australian's NSW state political reporter.
- AHC responds to Kristina Keneally's comments on the Block
- The AHC has wriiten to local MP Kristina Keneally concerning recent comments she made in Parliament and at a RWA media conference. The text of the letter follows:
- Built Environment Plan released: Is this future for Redfern and Waterloo?
- The Redfern Waterloo Authority’s draft Built Environment Plan (BEP) has been released to mixed reviews. The South Sydney Herald examined what the plan means for some of South Sydney’s most important sites writes Joseph Correy and Geoffrey Turnbull in the March 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- Cr Firth calls on Sartor to rethink Pemulwuy decision
- Labor Deputy Lord Mayor, Verity Firth, has expressed grave concern at the State Government’s apparent abandonment of the Pemulwuy Project. “[The] decision by Minister Sartor is regrettable and should be reversed. It has made the realisation of the project impossible,” said Cr Firth recently reports The South Sydney Herald in its March 2006 Issue.
- Indigenous jobs boost
- Redfern-Waterloo Authority Minister Frank Sartor has announced that 26 indigenous job seekers will be employed to work on a $45-million project at the Australian Technology Park (ATP).
- City of Sydney councillors air their concerns about the future of Redfern Waterloo - 8 March 2006
- Alexandra Walker reports in the 8th March edition of Sydney Central Courier that Inner Sydney could be left with an oversupply of office space if the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s (RWA ) plans go ahead too quickly, a City of Sydney councillor has warned.
- Redfern/Waterloo: Land grab plan announced - 8 March 2006
- Two weeks ago at a gala launch, the NSW government revealed the draft Redfern/Waterloo Built Environment Plan, the first stage of a blatant attempt to commercially redevelop these suburbs, and incorporate them into an enlarged Central Business District writes Peter Mac in The Guardian.
- Once again, Frank gets it wrong on The Block
- Darlington-Redfern branches of the Australian Labor Party Media Release Thursday, March 2", 2006
- The reality behind the Redfern plan: a boon for the big end of town - March 1 2006
- Elizabeth Farrelly SMH March 1, 2006 writes: 'JOBS, jobs, jobs," boomed the minister. "This plan is about jobs and opportunity, opportunity and jobs, jobs and opportunity." The only job on offer at this particular sun-baked news conference was a consummate snow job. It was a small, select news conference, with a handful of the hand-picked standing around in the sun waiting for the Minister, who was a half-hour late taking up his spot in the shade.
- 'Stressed out' police threaten to strike - 28 February 2006
- Exclusive by Kara Lawrence Daily Telegraph February 28, 2006
- 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
