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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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- Burgmann Comes Out Swinging
- LABOR lord mayoral candidate Dr Meredith Burgmann said she believed Sydney Council needed a major shift in policy focus reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 23 July 2008.
- Protests: End income quarantining!
- The unjust quarantining of Aboriginal people’s Centrelink benefits, enforced as part of the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention, has been labelled by some as the intervention’s most destructive element Reports Jay Fletcher in Green Left of 19th July 2008.
- National Trust blasts the RWA
- The National Trust has thrown its support behind Wrought Artworks, the blacksmithing workshop at Australian Technology Park (ATP) threatened with eviction by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports Alex McDonald in City news of 19th July 2008.
- The brutal reality about halls of higher earning
- The university, says John Ralston Saul, is "where civilisation's knowledge is divided up into exclusive territories", where academics daily invent "dialects sufficiently hermetic" to preclude internecine seepage. Each faculty, discipline or research team thus becomes a kind of Da Vinci Code cryptex, and university politics an arcane strain of gang warfare writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 16, 2008.
- RWA Eveleigh Pedestrian / Bike Bridge on Exhibition – Until 15th August 2008
- The Department of Planning have placed on public exhibition the RWA’s proposal for a pedestrian & bike bridge, which the RWA call the Eveleigh Heritage Walk (EHW). The bridge no longer provides the link from CarriageWorks to near the new Channel 7 building as proposed by the RWA in its preliminary application. The bridge now connects the southern end of the ATP to North Eveleigh close to Redfern Station as indicated in the RWA’s recent North Eveleigh Concept Plan in which the bridge featured but was not included.
- Candidates Keep it Green
- GREENS councillor Chris Harris is again running for Lord Mayor in September's elections, with newcomer Irene Doutney also aiming for a seat on Sydney Council reports Jennifer Bennett in the central of 16hJuly 2008.
- Voters will decide on Sydney Wards
- VOTERS will have the power to decide whether they want Sydney Council to introduce a wards system at September's elections reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the central of 16th july 2008.
- Redfern to rival Pyrmont as a hub for media
- REDFERN'S commercial property sector is being expanded with the $200 million development 8 Central Avenue, being undertaken by Rebel Property Group and the Seven Network reports Carolyn Cummins Commercial Property Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 12, 2008.
- Creative collective swings into action
- The vast industrial spaces of the CarriageWorks arts centre in Eveleigh are crammed with psychedelic light shows, shadow puppets and aerialists swinging from scaffolding. Since last week, the venue has hosted the second annual Underbelly Public Arts Lab, where Sydney's young artists create work and develop ideas to be shown at the Underbelly Festival at the weekend Louise Schwartzkoff in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 11, 2008.
- Space-age development plan sends some locals into orbit
- GEORGE JETSON would approve but a developer's vision for futuristic apartment blocks on the Carlton United Brewery site in Broadway has drawn a mixed response from residents reports Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 11, 2008.
- Find the best property investment suburbs
- Sydney and Canberra have five suburbs with yields of over 6pc yield and Darlington in Sydney has the best return for landlords reports news.com.au on July 11, 2008
- Green Light for New Community Health Facility & Human Service Plan 2 Released
- This media release of 11 July 2008 from Minister frank Sartor announced both the Planning Approval for the new Redfern Community Health Facility and the release of the Human Services Plan Phase 2.
- Redfern Set to Become a Major Business and Media Hub
- Redfern’s commercial property sector is about to get a huge shot in the arm through the pre-leasing program to be launched next week for a television and media hub in the heart of Australian Technology Park reports this press release of 11 July 2008 from City PR on behalf of CB Richard Ellis and Chesterton International who are pre-leasing space at the ATP.
- Potted slant on urban jungles
- Three artists are drawing on pot plants to tell a story about city living. Leesha McKenny looks at their project reports the Sydney Morning Herald of July 9, 2008.
- Frasers Broadway Modified Concept Plan - Fact sheet - 6th July 2008
- This Fact Sheet was handed out at the Fraser’s Information evening on 9th July 2008. In the Update below Frasers Property have summarised the changes in the Concept Plan. What is not particularly clear is that the revised concept plan proposed by Frasers seeks to increase the floor space allowed on the site by about 9% on that already approved for the site. Please note this text is produced by Optical Character Recognition and may contain errors. As the exhibition documents are still being finalised between the Department of Planning and Frasers and it will be another couple of weeks before the final documents are available on the Frasers Broadway web site, this summary is being provided for those who were unable to attend the Frasers information evening.
- New Harbourfront Boss Commits to Redfern
- REDFERN-WATERLOO Authority CEO Robert Domm has been appointed the head of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the central of 9th July 2008.
- Growing Sense of Community
- ALEXANDRIA Park Community School opened its community garden project to mark NAIDOC Week, which began on Sunday reports Jennifer Bennett in the central of 9th July 2008.
- Independents Step Up - New faces vie for spot on council
- LORD Mayor Clover Moore has announced her team of Independent candidates to contest the Sydney Council election in September reports Jennifer Bennett in the central of 9th July 2008.
- Hillsong Sung to Tune of $18K
- HILLSONG has withdrawn a controversial development application for a Rosebery super church after Sydney Council spent $18,000 on venue hire for a public forum on the proposal reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the central of 9th July 2008.
- CUB Site Meeting 9th July 2008 – Coalition Chippendale Community Groups Comments
- The Coalition Chippendale Community Groups has circulated the following background for the Fraser’s Exhibition and Briefing on their new Concept Plan for the site this Wednesday 9th July. While the Plans will be on display from 5pm there will be a briefing on the plans starting at 6.30pm. The Exhibition and Presentation is being held on site at the former brewery with entry from the main Gate on Broadway near the clare hotel. The text of the CCCG’s Chippendale News follows:
