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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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- 3D virtual tour of North Eveleigh
- The Redfern-Waterloo Authority is pushing ahead with its plans to redevelop the North Eveleigh site. The RWA recently held a community consultation at the proposed site, which presented the future plans in scale model and 3D virtual tour reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Making sense of a city
- Jack Carnegie steps over his dog, Carlo, a giddy fox terrier, and sets his latest photographic work on his desktop for a sneaky preview. Browsing through the shots, taken on a digital SLR camera, it’s clear his passion for photography goes hand in hand with a good eye. He has taken images that look so perfect they could be on a Christmas card reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- “I paint like I’m dreaming” - Artist Profile: Shireen Malamoo
- Born into the slave trade in Northern Queensland, where Islanders and Aboriginals were forced to work on cane farms, Shireen Malamoo made a break one day. It was a decision she would never look back on with regret reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Have you heard? - The fast news with Trevor Davies - May 2008
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008 has reported on some Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
- Indigenous inquiry says empowerment is key
- Later this month the Inquiry into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage in NSW will submit its interim report to parliament, with an underlying message to empower Indigenous communities reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Disappearing park signs
- Tony Pooley, City of Sydney Councillor and former Mayor of South Sydney, has been asking questions – questions as to why signs seem to be disappearing from parks and reserves of South Sydney reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Labor Lord Mayoral candidate, Tony Pooley
- Tony Pooley has served in the area of Local Government for eight years: four with South Sydney Council and four with the City of Sydney after the amalgamation of the two councils. Prior to that, he was engaged as a public servant with two different NSW Ministers and then as a staff person for the Australian Republican Movement reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.[ STOP PRESS: Since time of writing Tony Pooley has withdrawn as Labor's candidate for Lord Mayor. The new candidate is Dr. Meredith Burgmann - SSH].
- Bike to work
- It is 7.15 in the morning and a group of commuters are hitting their stride. Wilson Street is relatively quiet. The sun has just risen behind the terraces. The street is wide enough – and quiet enough – for everyone to talk as they ride. The pace is relaxed reports Samantha Walker in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Bermuda Triangle in Heffron?
- There is a novel website where you can find out which of your neighbours cares about global climate change and it calculates how much your behaviour is contributing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is called www.whoonearthcares.com and it is an initiative of the Australian Conservation Foundation reports Anna Christie in the Environment Column in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Gamarada – men of earth
- In Redfern, a group of Aboriginal men, and a Maori, have been trained and are running the Gamarada Men’s Self Healing Program reports the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Guiding kids on paths of education
- May 20 saw the official opening of Barnardos’ much-anticipated Yurungai Learning Centre in partnership with the Factory Community Centre in Waterloo. The official ceremony was chaired by Yurungai participants, Liam McDonnell and Serika Shillingsworth reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Volunteers “the glue of community”
- While Volunteer Week was being celebrated across the nation, at the Yaama Dhiyaan café on Wilson Street over one hundred local community members were meeting to thank one another for making their neighbourhood a better place to live reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Waterloo Fair Trade
- Fair Trade is an international consumer revolution that is growing at a tremendous rate because of the hard work and vision of people like Roberto Orellana, owner of Mayan Coffee and Xocolat in Waterloo. The increasing demand of consumers for products that not only look and taste good, but also support local communities shows a positive change in what we now consider consumer satisfaction reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- “One kind heart can change the world around”
- Inna Goubina, who arrived in Australia from Georgia 14 years ago, is a research officer at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern. She has also been an author and poet, and interviewer with a Russian-language magazine called Australian Mosaic: Australian Russian Language Almanac reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Waterloo resident’s winning artwork
- “More a meditation than a picture” is how Carl Milton describes his prize-winning painting, ‘Sydney’. The Waterloo resident’s first ever entry into an art competition has received top honours in the City of Sydney’s 2008 Multicultural Art Competition reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Anti-homophobia rally closes Gloria Jeans
- Despite the Rudd Government promising to remove all forms of anti-gay discrimination, about 100 people turned up for the International Day Against Homophobia rally in Newtown on Friday May 16 reports norrie mAy-welby in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Five-eighth of the Century
- At a glittering Century Ball celebration dinner on Friday May 23, the South Sydney District Junior Football Club gathered en masse to celebrate the centenary of the game and to name its South Sydney Juniors Team of the Century reports Perry Johnstone in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Dorothy, 74
- It’s not every day you see a 74-year-old minister of religion walking into a tattoo parlour. But then, Dorothy McRae-McMahon isn’t your run-of-the-mill 74-year-old minister of religion reports Susannah Palk in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Homeless in Newtown
- On May 14, the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre organised a half-day forum on the topic of homelessness. The forum attracted over 60 people and included speakers from Housing NSW, City of Sydney, Marrickville Council, South West Inner City Housing Co-Op and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. The speakers at the forum discussed a range of issues such as the growing crisis in homelessness, different types of homelessness and the legal rights of homeless persons, as well as new initiatives to develop social housing and improve services for homeless persons reports Adrian Emilsen in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
- Lack of Detail
- WE are used to the Redfern Waterloo Authority telling us how well they are travelling on human services writes REDWatch's Geoffrey Turnbull in this letter to the editor in Central of 4 June 2008.
