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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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- Students build for the future
- TWO Koori students from Bonnyrigg High School have experienced what it's like to work in the construction industry. Year 11 students Tyson Parker and Malcolm Clayton completed a Koori Job Ready course in construction in April offered by TAFE NSW Chullora and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports Nena Bogunovic of Bonnyrigg High School in the Fairfield City Champion of August 15, 2007.
- Mock gunfire likely during APEC training
- Defence force troops and vehicles will storm railway sites around Sydney this week and fire blank ammunition during training exercises in the lead-up to next month's APEC summit reports AAP on 13th August 2007.
- Redfern Markets? Watch this space!
- The hustle and bustle of people and kaleidoscope of weekly colour that is Paddington Markets may soon be coming to Redfern, as a development application to hold a monthly market on the Cope and Regent Street site has been put into motion writes Claire Thompson in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Union and RWA build community
- At a time when the Federal Government response to the sad and complex problems facing our Indigenous population in the Northern Territory is to “send in the troops,” it is reassuring to know that in our own backyard the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy workers Union has a more enlightened approach writes Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- The battle for Pemulwuy
- Over the last 18 months there have been two marches from the TNT towers across to The Block in support of the Pemulwuy Project writes Trevor Davies Have You Heard? in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- View from the Block: looking forward, looking blak
- In 1957 the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee with the support and co-operation of federal and state governments, the churches and major Aboriginal organisations, was formed. NAIDOC Week (2nd week in July) has evolved into a week of cultural events to commemorate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage. The theme for this year is: looking forward, looking blak writes Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Movement at Drake-Brockman vs Planning Minister court case
- The South Sydney Herald’s Samantha Van reports after the conclusion of the Matthew Drake-Brockman vs State Minister for Planning court hearing, which took place on 25 and 26 July, Frasers Property set up a meeting with City of Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor and Greens Councillor Chris Harris for 10 August. Cr Harris told the SSH that Mr Drake-Brockman and sustainability consultant Michael Mobbs will also attend the meeting writes Trevor Davies Have you Heard in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Victory for sustainable development?
- Win or lose in the Land and Environment Court, Darlinghurst resident Matthew Drake-Brockman may have already won – on behalf of the public – against global beverages firm Foster’s Group and the State Minister for Planning Frank Sartor writes Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Inner-city clergy unite in concern over APEC
- Three local clergy, Rev. Graham Long from the renowned Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Rev. Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Rev. Andrew Collis from the South Sydney Uniting Church, will be attending APEC protests in September in order to monitor police activity in response to the powers bestowed on the force by the NSW Government writes Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- The media and the formation of community
- The media is hugely powerful in its influence on society and therefore carries a grave responsibility. The way we exercise this power has the capacity to build or dismantle human community and now, possibly even the planet itself writes Dorothy McRae-McMahon in a paper given at the Customs House City of Sydney Library run in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Qs & As on Council DAs
- Sydney City Councillor Phillip Black has told a Council meeting that there needs to be a clear but comprehensive brochure explaining how the Development Application (DA) process works for residents writes Bill Birtles in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Parents argue for improved road safety
- Parents with children at the Lois Barker Childcare Centre on Wellington Street in Waterloo are determined to improve road safety in the vicinity of the Centre before a tragedy occurs. They met with City of Sydney Councillor, Tony Pooley, on Thursday 19 July, to discuss their concerns writes Susannah Palk in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Skills and fun after school - Sports Commission initiative at Alexandria Park
- The Australian Sports Commission’s Active (AASC) after-school program has become a large part of the Alexandria Park Community School’s after-school culture. The AASC program is a great opportunity for all primary-aged students to be physically active and to develop positive attitudes to healthy living writes Travis Lane in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Two weeks to change your life
- Imagine being in prison for six months. In that time you’ve managed to get clean and you’re looking forward to turning a new leaf on the outside. Then, a day before you’re released, a fellow inmate asks you, “Looking forward to getting a hit tomorrow?” and suddenly you’re delivered a shock to the system regarding life on the outside writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Nation at the crossroads
- “We have to ask why Australia has failed, why Australian governments have failed to deal with the racism that Aboriginal people continue to experience, why some governments have even sought to exploit racist tendencies in Australian society for political gain.” Dr Naomi Mayers OAM is the Chief Executive Officer of the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service writes in the guest editorial in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Referendum – the way for wards?
- The City of South Sydney and the City of Sydney were merged back in 2004. Initially there were no wards and it seems all the candidates in the election committed themselves to introducing wards in the newly merged Council area. Last month members of the Lord Mayor’s team seemed to have changed their minds and are now not so committed to a ward system. Here Labor Councillor Tony Pooley states the case in favour, and former Deputy Mayor John McInerney gives the view of the Lord Mayor and her team. In the end, it’s up to the people of Sydney at a referendum to be held at the next Council election writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Sydney, Wentworth warm up for election
- The Greens have again nominated Jenny Leong to contest the safe Labor Party seat of Sydney in this year’s Federal election. The former President of the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association will be vying for the seat against the ALP’s incumbent Tanya Plibersek, the same competitor she came up against as the Greens candidate in 2004 writes Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Serious about climate change: Garrett on song in Darlington
- Unlike the Howard Government, Federal Labor takes climate change seriously. “This is a massive, massive issue,” Shadow Minister for Climate Change Peter Garrett said at a panel on climate change writes Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Councils' fates rest in Sartor's hands
- THE Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, has new powers that give him absolute discretion to sack a council and take over its affairs writes Catharine Munro the Sydney Morning Herald’s Urban Affairs Editor on July 30, 2007.
- Russell Crowe rips it up at Redfern
- HE has strolled Hollywood Boulevard and knows his way around Champs d'Elysees but Pitt St Redfern is where Russell Crowe's heart lies reports Marcus Casey in The Daily Telegraph of July 28, 2007.
