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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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- Irene Doutney on Redfern Business Study
- This is the text of Councilor Irene Doutney's address to Council Committee on 3 August 2009 on why Council needed to do more than note the Redfern Business study alongside the report on Newtown.
- Redfern reaches 150
- This month, Redfern Town Hall hosted a day of celebrations to mark the suburb’s 150th birthday, but not all of Redfern’s residents were there to celebrate reports Drew Sullivan 20 August 2009.
- Affordable Housing SEPP Released - 1 August 2009
- Premier Nathan Rees announced today the Government had delivered its promise to make it easier to build affordable housing – cheaper rental properties, granny flats and specialised social housing reports this Media Release of 1 August 2009.
- NSW Govt makes New Appointments to CSPC - 30 July 2009
- Planning Minister, Kristina Keneally, today announced new State Government appointees to the City of Sydney’s Central Sydney Planning Committee (CSPC). They will hold the positions until July 2011 reports this media release from the Minister for Planning on 30 July 2009.
- Redfern Waterloo Human Services Plan Phase One Evaluation Report Released
- The Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) released the first evaluation report of the Redfern-Waterloo Human Services Plan Phase One today (28 July 2009) reports this media release from the Redfern Waterloo Authority.
- Rally against looming rail staff cuts
- Fifty people attended a rally at Redfern station on July 18. The protesters said Railcorp’s proposed staffing cuts were unjustified and put commuters at risk reports John Coleman, in Green Left Weekly on 25 July 2009.
- COURT AGAIN UPHOLDS CITY'S RETAIL VISION FOR GREEN SQUARE
- The Land and Environment Court has again endorsed the City's vision and planning for the Green Square Town Centre by upholding our refusal of a major retail and commercial shopping centre development on the outskirts of the renewal area reports Clover Moore's eNews of Friday 24 July 2009 - No. 457.
- The marginalisation of Ted Kennedy
- Andrew Hamilton the consulting editor for Eureka Street looks at Edmond Campion’s book about Father Ted Kennedy in Eureka Street on July 23, 2009.
- Police launch mentoring program for Redfern youth
- Police have launched a program designed to steer “at risk” youths within the Redfern Local Area Command away from a potential life of crime reports police media on 19 July 2009.
- Life of a non-conformist priest
- Jonathan Hill reviews Edmund Campion: Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern in Eureka Street on July 17, 2009. (David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne, 2009. ISBN: 9781863551298 )
- The meddling priest and the Redfern prophet
- The following is an extract from Frank Brennan Frank Brennan's homily at the mass preceding the launch of Edmund Campion's Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern on July 16, 2009
- Black heart of Redfern doesn't miss a beat
- SYDNEY'S black urban heart has been in Redfern much longer than people think writes Debra Jopson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 10 July 2009.
- The Block declared alcohol-free
- The City of Sydney Council has declared The Block an alcohol-free zone after a request from Indigenous locals reports ABC news on 7 July 2009.
- 2 Live 2 Deadly
- From humble beginnings operating out of a terrace house in Redfern twenty years ago, the Aboriginal voice on Sydney radio has struggled to seal its place on the city's airwaves reports ABC’s Message Stick on 5 July 2009.
- Homeless, not helpless
- The subject of homelessness on Sydney’s inner-city streets is one sometimes ignored by mainstream media and negated by public policy makers; a seemingly invisible social condition left to wait on park benches and outside train stations reports Laura Banister in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Grand new community centre
- After two years away, the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre has come home – bigger, smarter and greener than ever reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- The Fred Hollows (or is it Cassius Clay?) of architecture
- You might not pick Col James as a fighter. He is slight of build. He has a friendly approach. But you were intended to make the same mistake about Clark Kent. Without the outside-underpants, Col has been a force for houses-for-the-people in South Sydney and beyond all his adult life. He has just “retired” as a Lecturer in Architecture at Sydney Uni. But as this article will hopefully make clear, that’s not going to stop him from making “housing a verb” (his phone-answering slogan) till the final bell reports Barrie McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Bill Simon’s Back on the Block
- It was standing room only in the Redfern Community Centre. After the welcome to country by Uncle Max, Michael Mundine chaired the occasion of the formal launching of Bill Simon’s book, Back on the Block reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Church survives “many depressions and many wars”
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, now barely visible amongst the dense suburb of Waterloo, sits proudly on a hill, as it has for almost 150 years. This year the parish, the oldest in Australia dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, will mark a century and a half of “life and ministry” reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- The Fast News - Compiled by Trevor Davies
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
