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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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- Football (aka soccer) in South Sydney
- The newly established PCYC FC South Sydney has had a successful first season as a member club of the Eastern Suburbs Football Association (ESFA reports Travis Lane in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007).
- Telling tales of South Sydney
- Typical residents in Sydney’s inner south prefer to eat someone else’s food rather than cook their own, have fewer children, and are more likely to travel overseas or read a book, compared to the average Sydney householder reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Whose lane is it anyway?
- ‘Dunny lanes,’ the back lanes that run through Sydney’s inner suburbs, have long existed as a part of the city’s identity. Once, they served a purpose. They provided access for the ‘dunny men.’ The introduction of sewerage systems saw the end of an age. Over time the lanes have become a problem. Robberies, assaults, rubbish dumping, and drug taking, have been the more contemporary uses for the lanes reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Police trained to handle mental health crises
- The NSW Police are trialling a two-year specialist training program to tackle the rising number of incidents related to mental health issues. Officers will be trained to deal with mentally ill people safely, reducing the risk of injury during crisis situations reports Candice Chung in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Plumbers help tell the green story
- Fourth-generation plumber, Peter Lawson of the longest established company in Alexandria, Lawson Bros, is now an accredited Greenplumber. The company established in Alexandria since 1878 can now add “5000th Greenplumber” to its record as its owner took part in a 30-hour training program. The course outlines water-saving and power-saving techniques in order to help the consumer. The Master Plumbers and Mechanical Services Association of Australia (MPMSAA) developed the accredited course seven years ago when it became concerned about green-house gases reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Vision for Sydney 2030 must go beyond platitudes
- Few people would argue the City of Sydney’s Sustainable Sydney 2030 strategic planning project is not much-needed. Some might say it is long overdue, compared with Perth which in 2001 commenced a bold campaign of community engagement to revamp its strategic planning reports Anna Christie in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Sydney “prospective Green,” says Brown
- In the 2004 federal election, Jenny Leong, the Greens candidate for the seat of Sydney, achieved a primary vote of 21.6 %. The seat of Sydney is currently held by Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek, Shadow Minister for Human Services, Housing, Women and Youth. Leong still managed to receive a swing of 6.9% reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- ICE: euphoria, depression, psychosis
- ICE, otherwise know as crystal meth or methamphetamine has rapidly become one of Sydney’s most popular party drugs. But with effects such as psychosis and paranoia, the increasing popularity of the drug is putting pressure on local communities and health services. In a forum recently held in Redfern’s Town Hall, Tanya Plibersek, Federal Member for Sydney, stressed the importance of education and awareness about the drug and that there was no need for “hysteria” reports Susannah Palk in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Plibersek backs affordable housing project
- Federal Shadow Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek MP, recently showed her support for a unique affordable housing project that could see Marrickville Council offer the community cheap housing on public land reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Scams! Let the buyer beware
- The Commonwealth Government’s Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has a website called Scam. At present this website lists an amazing 14 scams – such as lottery scams, chain letters, pyramid sales, investment scams, mobile phone scams and more reports Trevor Davies in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- “Something deep within my spirit”
- Darren Cooper has a studio and an art shop at 17 George Street, Redfern. It’s a space he clearly enjoys. He showed me many artworks there – paintings, painted furniture, a surfboard, t-shirts. Inspiration is derived, he explains, from a sense of pride in his people (the Wiradjuri people of the Bathurst region) and love of country, as well as from the world of commercial art and design (Nicole Colmer, Lyn Onis and Ken Done have served as mentors) reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Bystander @ Performance Space
- Performance Space at the Carriage Works, in Eveleigh, is fast becoming a prominent attraction within South Sydney’s world of art. Not only has it breathed new life into the once decrepit and decaying buildings of the old State Rail maintenance yards, it is giving many local artists a hub to display their work reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- The limo Olympics get the green light
- FORGET the frantic staff at the airport, the dark-suited bodyguards with ear pieces, the long lines of nervous police dressed in ill-fitting riot gear. If you want to see real pressure during APEC, then head to Eveleigh says Linton Besser Transport Reporter in the SMH of September 1, 2007.
- Councils in their sights: angry ratepayers demand more say
- A proposed gun shop highlights unrest about one-size-fits-all rules, writes Robert Wainwright in the SMH August 25, 2007.
- RailCorp Reveals Plans for Mortuary Station
- We were recently shown a letter RailCorp CEO Vince Graham sent to someone concerned about mortuary station. The text of the Vince Graham letter is below in bold italics. Interspersed with the text of the letter you will find some comments from a person with a long involvement in Rail Heritage who when they saw the letter felt the RailCorp CEO’s comments should not go unchallenged. For professional reasons the person making the comments wishes to remain nameless.
- The Museum Site that RailCorp Refused to tell the Minister about - 24th August 2007.
- It is now 18 months since Mr John Watkins, Minister for Transport told supporters of Friends of Eveleigh at a meeting in Eastwood Mall, that he had not been informed at any time by RailCorp that Eveleigh’s Large Erecting Shop could be developed as a Heritage Workshop and Museum says a media release from Friends of Eveleigh on 24th August, 2007.
- Fooled again by a system that stinks
- It was, says the Greens Deputy Lord Mayor, Chris Harris, "a black day for Sydney" - the day Justice Jayne Jagot found for the developer in the Carlton and United Breweries case. Harris is right to be gloomy, and not only because of the hot-house gases involved. Equally disturbing is that the road to this decision is lined, several deep, by the fools the planning system takes us for writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the SMH of August 22, 2007.
- NSW fast-tracks plan for rail links
- The NSW Government is advancing plans for the north-west and south-west rail links, including land acquisition for the two projects reports Brian Robins on smh.co.au on August 22 2007.
- Aboriginal Souths players targeted: club
- South Sydney Rabbitohs management lodged a complaint with police after an officer allegedly acted aggressively towards two Aboriginal rugby league players reports AAP in the Sun Herald of 19th August 2007.
- CUB Site Decision handed down
- The decision for the CUB case in the Land and Environment Court was handed down on 14th August 2007. Here is a brief update from FoCUS issued on the 15th August 2007.
