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.
- No compensation for businesses derailed by metro
- Small businesses which claim to have been crippled financially by the aborted CBD Metro have had their claims for compensation rejected, despite the state government confirming it had paid $93 million in compensation to construction firms which tendered for the project reports Josephine Tovey and Aaron Cook in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1 July 2010.
- Save Leamington Avenue Meeting - 5 July 2010
- Residents of Leamington Ave have arranged a meeting at Darlington Public School from 5.15pm to 7.15 pm for local residents and supporters to inform people about the Transport NSW Plans and to discuss community action. The text of their leaflet can be found below:
- Proposed railway brings home threat to Newtown residents
- Residents of heritage-listed Leamington Ave in Newtown are reeling after an anonymous leaflet was dropped into their letter boxes declaring “Your house may be resumed, help stop it!” reports Aimee Scott in the Central of 30 June 1010.
- Universal Answer to All Ills - "Sell"
- The universal answer from Housing NSW, and some other public housing providers, when confronted with a problem of their own making whose cure they have placed in the ‘too hard’ basket is to say “sell”. This announcement is frequently closely followed by an endorsement of the yet to be definitively defined concept of Social Mix, which is then touted as the magic wand for all anti-social behaviour. If the estates/housing stock in question shows signs of being hard to sell, then there is the grand announcement of the handing over of the housing stock to a Social or Community Housing provider. This is the modern day version of the problem solving method initiated by Pontius Pilate – washing the problem off one’s hands – now known as the Sunlight Soap solution writes Ross Smith in TSN's Rimfire Review of 28 June 2010.
- Commonwealth funds to plan renewal in Redfern and Waterloo - HNSW Update June 2010
- Housing NSW have rleased an explanation of how the Federally funded Master Planning Process for Redfern and Waterloo will work alongside the RWA BEP2. The explanation is contained in Newsletters distributed to Redfern and Waterloo public housing tenants on 29 June 2010. The text below is accompanied by a chart which REDWatch has linked to at the foot of this article.
- Transport NSW - Community update June 2010 Western Express Rail Project
- The following "Community Update" leaflet was distributed by Transport NSW on June 22, 2010 around Leamington Avenue to advise people about the Western Express Rail Project which potentially impacts on houses in the Pine's estate.
- Keeping the Keeping Place
- City of Sydney Greens Councillor Irene Doutney today echoed calls by the National Trust to set up an Indigenous art centre at Barangaroo, saying it could be an ideal location to permanently house the world renowned Aboriginal art collection known as The Keeping Place says this media release on 23 June 2010 from Sydney Councillor Irene Doutney.
- RWA Answers Questions from Human Services Forum
- Below are answers from the RWA to Questions raised at the human Services Forum on 10 May 2010. Questions asked include: Lack of Primary School places in the region; Role of the concierges; What is happening with the Rachel Forster Building?; Lack of nearby good shopping centre; Inadequate bus services and the Upgrade of Redfern Station.
- Plans for Tunnel Options in North Eveleigh Concept Plan
- The RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan needed to ensure that no development on North Eveleigh impacted on the proposed dive and underground corridor planned for a new city line. This is the corridor being proposed to be used by the 2010 announced City Relief line. Appendix R to the original North Eveleigh Concept Plan included plans for the "North Eveleigh Dive and Tunnel Alignment Concept Design Corridor Protection" prepared by Connell Wagner in October 2007 for RailCorp and the RWA for two tunnel options. The link to these can be found below.
- Transport NSW Web Statement on Western Express/City Relief Line
- The following statement has recently appeared on the Transport NSW Website concerning planning for the Western Express/City Relief line. The text below was taken from the page posted on 17 June 2010.
- “The Castle” rerun? - Local Homes Threatened by Rail Relief Line
- Residents in Leamington Avenue near Macdonaldtown station were reeling after a recent leaflet came through their letterboxes headed “Your House may be Resumed, Help Stop It!” It was the first anyone knew that the houses they were buying, selling and renovating may soon be resumed writes Geoff Turnbull from REDWatch.
- RWA Update - June 2010
- In this RWA Update: NEWS - Waterloo high rise initiative / New community garden for Redfern / Roll Up Redfern campaign announced / Heritage Taskforce update / Rabbitohs support Gambling Awareness Week / Make over for The Shop, Waterloo / NGO Forum to deliver better outcomes / Redfern-Waterloo volunteers recognised / CarriageWorks change in management - DEVELOPMENT NEWS - Gibbons Street car park exhibition held / Abercrombie and Cleveland St, Redfern application / Cafe at 8 Central Avenue, Australian Technology Park - WHAT’S ON - South Sydney Herald Fundraiser 18 June / Playground in the Park 22 June / Aboriginal Women’s Corroboree 25 June / Family and Culture Day 26 June / Eveleigh Farmers’ Market – every Saturday 8am to 1pm / Artisans’ Market – 1st Sunday of the month, 10am to 3pm.
- Discounts to lure buyers to public housing
- PUBLIC housing estates in 10 Sydney suburbs will be rejuvenated, old buildings demolished, new roads built and first-home buyers enticed into communities with discounts reports Kirsty Needham Social Affairs Correspondent in the Sydney Morning Herald of 7 June 2010. [The story also announces "$3 million has been allocated for a masterplan to redevelop 1000 public housing dwellings in the Redfern and Waterloo areas"-REDWatch].
- Housing Affordability Fund to Deliver 10 Urban Renewal Projects in NSW
- The following media release from Federal Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek and NSW Minister for Housing Frank Terenzini anouced on 7 June 2010 the granting of $3.05 million to create a concept plan for the redevelopment of existing social housing precincts in Redfern and Waterloo. The full text of the media release is beloow
- Rail tunnel plan threatens historic homes
- JUST two months after the NSW government spared the heritage suburbs of Pyrmont and Rozelle by dumping the CBD Metro, another historic precinct is under threat from another controversial transport plan reports Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 4 June 2010.
- Wanted: Good home for $1.5m art collection
- If you are caught in Sydney’s housing squeeze, spare a thought for Gordon and Elaine Pelot-Syron who need a home for around 1,500 seminal Aboriginal artworks, most recently collectively valued at $1.5 million, Michael Gormly reports the latest about Gordon and Elaine Syron's collection in City News on 3 June 2010.
- REDWatch Letter Regarding Sydney University & North Eveleigh
- The letter below was sent on 24 May 2010 by REDWatch individually to local politicians urging "the state government and Sydney University enter into negotiations to overcome whatever non-financial obstacles exist to the sale of the North Eveleigh site to the University." The letter was sent to Kristina Keneally, Carmel Tebbutt, Ferity Firth, Tanya Plibersek and Clover Moore.
- Leamington Avenue Resumption Warning Leaflet - June 2010
- The unsigned leaflet below was distributed to residents in Leamington Avenue in early June 2010. It warned residents of State Government Plans which may lead to the resumption of land in Leamington Avenue at MacDonaldtown adjoining North Eveleigh. THe text of the leaflet is below as is a copy of the map from a study in 2002 for RailCorp showing impacted properties. On June 4 Andrew West in the SMH ran a story "Rail tunnel plan threatens historic homes" on the issue.
- CEOs swap a day in the office to help local community centre
- Decorating a playroom, painting a fence, and getting their hands dirty in the garden; these were just some of the tasks involved for a group of Sydney-based CEOs who spent the day at The Shop, Waterloo, a centre for women and children, as part of the CEO Day of Caring, organised by UnitedWay reports this media release from the Redfern Waterloo Authority on 27 May 2010.
- Redfern Vine Street Factories for Sale
- Real Estate agents McGrath are advertising by Auction on 31 May 2010 the sale of industrial land at 2 - 23 Vine Street Redfern. The site backs on The Block owned by the Aboriginal Housing Company and is covered by the RWA's Planning Controls. Development would be dealt with under Part 3A by the Department of Planning.