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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.
You can get up to date news by setting up a Google News alert at http://www.google.com/alerts. News Alerts will not pick up local media and some mainstream media stories which do not appear on a news website, where possible we put these stories on our website to provide wide access to the stories.
- Gender, power and Labor politics
- Environmental activist, Sydney University graduate and mother, Jenny McAllister, has recently been elected to the Labor Party Leadership Team, alongside Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Senior Trade Union leader Michael Williamson. Each member will assume the role of National President for a year, whilst the others act as Vice Presidents reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- dumped trolleys anger locals
- Scores of shopping trolleys from a Coles supermarket in Surry Hills are being stolen and dumped in Redfern, according to residents reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 4 June 2009.
- Professor Patrick Dodson dines at the RWA’s Yaama Dhiyaan
- Esteemed Aboriginal leader Professor Patrick Dodson visited the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s Aboriginal training facilities on his recent visit to Sydney in his role as the Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit of the University of NSW reports this media release of 2 June 2009 from the RWA.
- Kristina Keneally encourages comment on Waterloo Aldi DA
- I am writing to encourage you to make your views known to the City of Sydney Council regarding a proposed Aldi Store in Waterloo writes the member for Heffron Kristina Keneally in this letter to residents.
- Seido Karate benefit tournament
- Kinga Farago won women's sparring at Seido benefit tournament Seido Karate dojo in Abercrombie St raised $2000 at an action-packed inter-dojo tournament reports Central on 2 June 2009.
- There goes the neighbourhood: Redfern gentrification gets an arty critique
- How is gentrification altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world? A handful of artists from here and abroad have tried to answer this in “There Goes The Neighbourhood’’, an exhibition, residency, discussion and publishing project reports Central on 30 May 2009.
- He was violent and controlling. She knew he was a killer
- Paul Wilkinson fabricated death threats against his wife and child to get them out of the house while he was having an affair. Michael Duffy reports on the case of a master manipulator in the May 29, 2009 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald. [REDWatch is carrying this media article as Paul Wilkinson provided evidence regarding the death of TJ Hicky and Redfern Police to the 2004 Inquiry into Redfern Waterloo].
- Redfern's bird sculpture hatches angry response
- IT is meant to represent a bowerbird's courtship ritual. But to many passers-by, a public sculpture in Redfern is a distressing reminder of a sad chapter in the suburb's history reports Elicia Murray the Sydney Morning Herald Urban Affairs Reporter on May 28, 2009.
- Redfern-Waterloo set on safety
- Council has bowed to community pressure and agreed to consider a future for the Redfern-Waterloo Community Safety Plan reports Emma Rugg in City news on 28 May 2009.
- The Difficult Rebirth of Redfern
- This article by Geoff Turnbull from "There goes the Neighbourhood: Redfern and the Politics of Urban Space" looks at Government interventions in Redfern since the establishment of the Premier's Departments Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project.
- The Man's French connection
- When French photographer Yann Audic first set eyes on Anthony Mundine, he was immediately impressed reports Chris Barrett in The Brisbane Times of May 27, 2009.
- Kids on The Block take on criminals
- THERE'S trash talk at The Block again. But this time the fighting words in Redfern are coming from an unusual source reports Elicia Murray the Sydney Morning Herals’s Urban Affairs Reporter on May 23, 2009.
- Pub buyers return to the bar
- BUYERS are returning to the Sydney pub market. Deals totalling nearly $70 million were completed or agreed in recent weeks, according to market analysis from CB Richard Ellis Carolyn Cummins and Chris Vedelago in the May 23, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald.
- CHIPPENDALE SUSTAINABILITY IMPROVEMENTS
- Work begins soon on pedestrian, cycling, traffic and environmental sustainability improvements in Chippendale, implementing the results of consultation and Council planning for the area reports Clover Moore's eNews Friday 22 May 2009 - No. 448.
- Diving shares teach uni tough lesson
- THE University of Sydney will defer building projects after incurring a $160 million operating loss last year, due largely to the huge hit it took on its investments reports Heath Gilmore the Sydney Morning Heralds Higher Education Reporter on May 21, 2009.
- PCYC Open Day gathers unsung social saviours
- To the uninitiated, Open Day at Woolloomooloo’s newly renovated Police and Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) revealed an alliance of committed people and official programs co-operating to provide opportunities and positive role models for inner-city youth reports Michael Gormly in City news of 21 May 2009.
- Message from the ATP MD Roy Wakelin-King
- The following appeared the ATP's electronic newsletter in May 2009 and it provides some information about activites at the ATP. The link to the newletter is provided at the foot of the page.
- CarriageWorks Busiest Weekend Notice - 15 & 16 May 2009
- On 15 and 16 May, CarriageWorks will experience the busiest weekend it has had since it opened. Every performance space in the building has something happening in it and there are the Eveleigh and Finder's Keepers Markets. The result will be two days of heavy foot and Vehicle traffic that may have an impact on surrounding neighbours. Below is the notice issued by CarriageWorks to those attending but they have also asked for it to be passed on to local residents.
- KIMBERLEY'S PASTORAL JEWEL TO BE RETURNED
- ROEBUCK Plains, a cattle station purchased amid controversy by the Indigenous Land Corporation before becoming a $30million jewel in the Kimberley pastoral industry, is to be handed back to Aboriginal traditional owners reports Stuart Rintoul in the Australian of 19 May 2009. [REDWatch Note – While this article does not directly relate to Redfern Waterloo our decision to post this article is because it raises concerns about how the ILC works and consults with another Aboriginal Community which has also been a concern raised in Redfern Waterloo.]
- Chap off the old Block is pushing hard for the new
- Like the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy, who fought early colonists, Mick Mundine is no shirker and is hell bent on redeveloping The Block, his patch for almost 40 years. John Ellicott reports in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 May 2009.
