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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.
- Frasers Clarifies CUB Design Excellence Process
- Frasers has provided more information on its planned consultation and design excellence processes for the Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site, to help Council consider whether to allow inclusion of some City land in Frasers' current development application reports CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 2 November 2007.
- Redfern plan backfires: report
- “If they found you on the street at 11 at night, you would get a pizza and a free trip home. Why wouldn't you stay out later?” Sunanda Creagh reports on the Redfern Waterloo Street team on the SMH website on October 30, 2007.
- Art mover set to shake up Sydney
- One of Melbourne's blue chip commercial art galleries is expanding into Sydney, with Anna Schwartz planning to open a second gallery in Sydney's year-old CarriageWorks complex in Redfern next year reports Katrina Strickland in the Australian Financial review of 29 October 2007.
- CUB Owners Seek Consent for Park Works
- Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site owners, Frasers Broadway, aim to complete the site's 5000 square metre public park ahead of the schedule, and have lodged an application with the Department of Planning to begin demolition and recycling works reports CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 26 October 2007.
- Flight of vital workers spurs cheap rent plan
- COUNCILS are developing affordable housing policies to try to stop teachers, nurses, police and child-care workers leaving expensive parts of the city reports Catharine Munro and Brian Robins in the SMH of October 22, 2007.
- Call for public housing review
- THE contraction in public housing is at the core of Australia's housing affordability problem, with an overhaul of Government policy essential to redress the imbalance, a study shows reports Brian Robins in the SMH of October 22, 2007.
- Hip-hop mob get their own Redfern recording label
- With a bling and a bang, Aboriginal hip-hop has got a new home. Billing itself as the first urban and independent Aboriginal record label, Redfern Records Entertainment leapt into life with a party in Kings Cross reports Joel Gibson in the SMH of October 22, 2007.
- Songs in the Keyes of life
- TALKING TO PERRY Keyes is not a linear exercise. He is a taxi driver several nights a week, so you find yourself ducking down side streets of conversations, disappearing into dimly lit arcana or getting caught up in a roundabout yarn reports Bernard Zuel in the SMH of October 20, 2007.
- Council Committee approves New Department of Housing Dwellings for Redfern
- A Department of Housing proposal to build 106 new dwellings in Redfern received the unanimous support of Council's Planning Development and Transport Committee on Monday night reports CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 19 October 2007.
- Frasers Broadway CUB Site community information sessions on web
- Frasers Property held two community information sessions and a round of site tours on Wednesday 26th and Saturday 29th September, attending by about 170 local residents and others interested in the Frasers Broadway redevelopment. The information panels are now available on the web.
- Redeveloped public housing estate not so public
- THE cost of redeveloping the Bonnyrigg public housing estate has blown out from an estimated $500 million to $730 million and just 30 per cent of the housing will be public reports Brian Robins in the SMH of October 16, 2007
- Cheap housing quota off the boil
- THE NSW Government appears to be backing away from asking developers to provide affordable housing, days after announcing it was cutting levies to make it easier for first-home buyers to enter the market reports Catharine Munro SMH Urban Affairs Editor with Sunanda Creagh.
- Minister Sartor & RWA CEO’s Answers at Estimates Hearing – 15 October 2007
- Minister Sartor and RWA CEO Robert Domm appeared before NSW Parliament’s General Purpose Standing Committee No 4 for “Estimates Hearings” on 15th November 2007. The draft transcript includes how the Minister sees progress in Redfern Waterloo, CUB Voluntary Planning Agreements, Redfern Railway Station, Public housing Redevelopment, the RWA’s involvement in Human Services and Aboriginal employment.
- 2007 FEDERAL ELECTION: THE PARTIES' HOUSING POLICIES
- The following summary of the political parties housing policies was complied by Shelter SA and circulated on 10th October through the The National Tenant Support Network (National TSN). Other policies will obviously be announced through out the election but this provides a pre-election snapshot. The list is in reverse alphabetical order.
- Government has lofty plans for Victoria Park village
- The Eastern Suburbs is to become the first area in Sydney to host a "vertical village", NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor said last week reports Tim Martin in the Southern Courier of 9th October 2007
- Redfern 'will welcome' development centre
- The Indigenous Land Corporation says Sydney's Redfern community will welcome the announcement of a new sports, education and community centre reports ABC news on Tuesday October 9th 2007.
- Circus rehearsals on the Block
- The heritage-listed Redfern Block has become home to aerial artist and instructor Craig Hull and his students since the closure of their performance space six months ago. Craig Hull, formerly of Circus Oz, has thirteen years experience teaching the Chinese pole otherwise known as the sticky pole – a climbing apparatus coated in resin which displays the performer’s strength and athleticism reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Broad support for Indigenous construction course
- Local heavies were out in force at the recent graduation ceremony for the Koori Job Ready Course (training for Indigenous people seeking a career in the construction industry) reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Federal Election ’07: The seat of Sydney
- Ben Walker analyses the candidates for the seat Sydney in the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- SOUTH SYDNEY SCHOOLS TO BENEFIT FROM CAPITAL WORKS AND EXTRA MAINTENANCE
- Kristina Keneally in her South Sydney Herald Advertisement was pleased to report that four schools in the South Sydney area will benefit from almost $700,000 worth of school upgrade works and extra maintenance projects in the Heffron Electorate this financial year.
