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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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- Tussle over blacksmith heritage
- BLACKSMITHS in Eveleigh, Sydney, are campaigning against the State Government’s move to evict them from their workshop. For the past 17 years, Wrought Artworks has had free use of the furnace workshop in Bay Two of the Australian Technology Park. Using ancient blacksmith techniques, metal is melted in a furnace and banged into shape by a steam-powered hammer reports www.metalworker.com.au.
- Introducing Di Tornai - CoS Councillor
- Di Tornai was elected as a Councilor of the City of Sydney Council on the Clover Moore Independents ticket and below we reproduce an Introduction to her as a candidate from Clover's enews of Friday 8 August 2008 - No. 409.
- Under the Hammer
- Is the state's valuable heritage being put under the hammer by a State Government more interested in forging relationships with developers? Asks Quentin Dempster on ABC’s Stateline NSW on 8th August 2008. The report from Reporter Nick Grimm is in the broadcast transcript below.
- Redfern’s new police commander
- Commander Luke Freudenstein, the present officer in charge of Redfern Police is not a total stranger to the South Sydney area having earlier served for four years in the Newtown command. After working as the Crime Manager in Manly and also in a wider regional area of police work, he spent two months in Kings Cross and decided that he definitely preferred the work relating to a local command. He has been appointed to the Redfern Command for six months, after which a more permanent decision will be made about his future writes Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Heritage heresy
- Frank Sartor’s plans to demolish some of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a site of world heritage significance, is heritage heresy: they will transform Redfern into “Redfern Heights”, and create a vanilla society writes Andrew Woodhouse in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Ending homelessness - A new focus for the Mercy Foundation
- The Mercy Foundation which has been based in Waterloo for over a decade has been an advocate for many groups of people and has provided financial support for the implementation of projects covering a wide range of social justice initiatives reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- City of Sydney Council Elections ’08 - Candidate profiles
- With the Council elections just over a month away (September 13), our writers have been interviewing the candidates. We’ll have profiles again next issue writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Volunteers help to provide shelter for homeless
- For more than 30 years the Cana Communities, a volunteer-based organisation that receives no government funding, has been offering services to people in need. Its focus is on people “most in need” – suffering from loneliness, mental illness, addictions, homelessness – and alienated within society. Cana operates a café in Redfern, several community homes in and around the inner city, as well as “church shelters” providing emergency overnight accommodation writes Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Cafe of the Month: Mayan magic at Meriton
- The very musical and flamboyant Roberto Orellana of the Mayan Cafe, situated at 32 Dank Street (corner of Dank and South Dowling streets) Waterloo, invites you to experience the most random colourful and cultural experience you'll find within our community writes Scott Winter in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- “If I go a week without drawing, I feel bored and worthless” - Artist Profile: Chantal Labbe
- Artist Chantal Labbe cannot pinpoint when she first started drawing but her need for creative expression was recognised early on by some insightful school teachers. “From the age of 10 or 11, I was allowed to draw throughout classes in school. They realised it helped me to focus and pay attention. The deal was I could draw, as long as I was listening and drawing something related to what we were learning,” she recalls writes Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Young Sonia stands for parliament
- Sonia Zhou has done what few people her age, and for that matter few within the general population, will ever get to do in their lifetime. She has sat in NSW parliamentary chambers writes Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Mural and film inspired by pride
- Matt Norman, the director of the film, Salute, about the role his uncle, Peter Norman, played in the black power protest at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, has been campaigning for an iconic mural writes Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Sydney’s Underbelly
- It’s always wonderful to see fantastic exhibition sites in Sydney. Visitors to Melbourne or Adelaide will know that their exhibition facilities, particularly for showcasing installation pieces, far exceed those available in Sydney – with one exception writes Carissa Simons in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Performing for the Pope
- A local Redfern man has performed in the re-enactment of Christ’s crucifixion, a World Youth Day event viewed by millions worldwide. Craig Hull, who lives on The Block, was hit by a car on Riley Street six weeks prior to the performance, but fortunately the fractured hip he incurred healed sufficiently in time to enable him to take part writes Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Socialist Alliance splits
- Selling ox tongues and ocelot spleens to spectators in the Jerusalem Coliseum, Brian – in Monty Python’s Life of Brian – encounters a group of four conspiring revolutionaries, who reproach him for selling Roman imperialist tidbits instead of proper food. “Are you the Judean People’s Front?” asks Brian. “F**k off!” responds a toga-wearing John Cleese. “We’re the People’s Front of Judea” writes Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Hillsong withdraws DA for Rosebery site
- Hillsong Church has withdrawn its $72 million development application for the former RTA site in Rosebery after Sydney City Council commissioned an independent assessment of the plan that found the proposed mega-church and adjacent office block exceeded the height and scale allowed. The study also established that the proposed entertainment-centre-sized church would generate significant volumes of traffic and parking that would far exceed the capabilities of the surrounding streets writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- A manicured elephant? Plans for CUB site revealed
- Australian musician Chris Gillespie sings a song about an M2 Cockatoo who’s disgusted to find his peaceful bushland home turned into a motorway. Walking home from the latest community information session at the old Carlton United Brewery site on Wednesday July 9, I couldn’t help humming the disgruntled cockatoo’s ballad. The Fraser Company’s proposed development won’t uproot any people or wildlife from their home, but the bird’s sensation of irrelevance in the face of progress is the same writes Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Recycling workshop back in business
- The Waterloo Recycling Workshop (WRW) was established in 1995. Founded by Cathy Westley as a public housing tenant initiative, it now operates (having closed its doors for a brief period) under the auspices of the Factory Community Centre in Waterloo writes Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Future is bleak for blacksmiths at ATP
- Approval of the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s re-development in the Australian Technology Park and North Eveleigh will provide 1,260 new homes for the South Sydney area, but already it has forced some of the existing residents out of their places of business writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Forget about flavour and paint the town beige
- In the extract below Elizabeth Farrelly in her Sydney Morning Herald column of 6th August 2008 refers to Wrought Artworks.
