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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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- Clover supports Sydney Uni plan for North Everleigh
- Council last Monday passed a Lord Mayoral Minute endorsing Sydney University’s plan for the North Everleigh site reports Gareth Narunsky in City News on Thursday, 20 May 2010.
- Last Chance for the historic North Eveleigh site.
- The Vice Chancellor of Sydney University, Dr Michael Spence, lamented that the market value offer to purchase the North Eveligh site has not been accepted by the State government at a public forum that the University hosted on 28 April 2010, whose speakers included the City of Sydney Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore writes Guido Gouverneur in this article in May 2010.
- Jackpot: struggling clubs find an ace up their sleeves
- Struggling to remain relevant and profitable in the face of demographic changes and plummeting revenue, RSL clubs are looking to exploit their major asset: property reports Kelsey Munro Urban Affairs at the Sydney Morning Herald on 17 May 2010.
- Eyes on your goal: a fresh place to love learning
- The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence aims to transform a community, writes Vincent Matthews in the Sydney Morning Herald of May 17, 2010
- Drug hidden in washing powder cartons: police
- A man has been charged after nearly 50kg of the drug pseudoephedrine was allegedly discovered in washing powder cartons at an inner-Sydney property reports AAP in the Sydney Morning Herald of 16 May 2010.
- City Supports Sydney University Proposal for North Eveleigh
- Council has provided in-principle support to Sydney University for their proposal to redevelop North Eveleigh. The proposal, which includes using the site for student accommodation and educational facilities, will ensure it remains in publicly owned land and that its heritage is protected reports CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 14 May 2010 - No. 496.
- Centre helps students begin new chapter in life
- UNTIL just a few months ago, year 6 Aboriginal student Aliesha Price was struggling to read. She tripped over tricky words and skipped whole chunks of text, making textbooks difficult to understand and lessons hard to follow. Since enrolling in the Exodus Foundation's intensive literacy program in Redfern, she can read aloud smoothly from a novel, only slowing occasionally to sound out longer words reports Megan Johnson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 13 May 2010.
- HNSW Community Renewal Events for Redfern Waterloo - June 2010
- The letter below has been sent by Housing NSW to their Redfern Waterloo stakeholders with details of events HNSW are holding in June 2010 about community and urban renewal for residents and local organisations in Redfern and Waterloo.
- May 2010 - RWA Update – Text Version
- In the May 2010 RWA Update - NEWS / Redfern chosen for Greater Sydney Partnership launch / New ‘What’s On’ Calender / Generation One function at Yaama / Heritage update / Graffiti Action Day / Farmers’ markets on SBS and in Sydney Magazine / News from the ATP / RWA staff update - DEVELOPMENT NEWS / Redfern RSL redevelopment begins / Car park on Gibbons Street exhibition / Abercrombie and Cleveland St, Redfern application / Momentum event in North Eveleigh - WHAT’S ON / Yaama Dhiyaan - 2010 dates / The Factory Community Centre: World Festival of Children’s Theatre Germany 2010 / Waterloo Community Forum / Eveleigh Farmers’ Market – every Saturday 8am to 1pm / Artisans’ Market – 1st Sunday of the month, 10am to 3pm
- New Move for CarriageWorks CEO, Sue Hunt
- CarriageWorks announces the resignation of its inaugural Chief Executive. Linda Gregoriou, Acting Chair of CarriageWorks’ Board, has this week announced the resignation of Carriageworks’ Chief Executive, Sue Hunt according to CarriagewWorks May 2010 News.
- RWA Responses to REDWatch Questions
- At the REDWatch meeting of 4 March 2010 attendees placed questions into a question box and these were passed to the RWA for a response. The RWA replied in writing to a number of the questions on 7 April 2010. The balance questions were answered on 5 May 2010. Following the RWA meeting on 15 March 2010 the REDWatch Co-ordinating Group also wrote to the RWA raising a number of concerns. At the end of that letter were a series of questions summarising the issues raised. The RWA responded to this letter in their response of 7 April 2010. For ease of interpretation REDWatch has taken the RWA responses and added into it the questions and the REDWatch Co-ordination Group Letter.
- University of Sydney Community Notice
- The following advertisement appeared in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010 from Sydney University.
- Academic body needs good neighbours
- An uneasy alliance has formed between the residents of Darlington and their expansive neighbour, Sydney University. A community meeting at the Settlement in Edward Street on April 20 confirmed the University’s intention to build better relations reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010.
- Kristina Keneally on Waterloo High Rise Initiative
- Kristina Keneally MP Member of Heffron provided the following information about the HNSW trial in Waterloo High Rises in her Advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010.
- Saving community services
- St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Young Street, Redfern, prides itself on providing various community groups with the opportunity to use its church hall in Ogden Lane. At least four community groups claim the mailing address of 9 Ogden Lane, Redfern, including the Food Distribution Network, South Sydney Community Transport, the Housing Access and Care Program, and the Uniting Care Home Maintenance Services reports Georgia Flynn in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010.
- Gamarada – stronger, better
- It is a Monday night, just after 7pm, and in a room to the left of the reception desk at Redfern Community Centre, a gathering of Indigenous men is taking place. Among their number are numerous guests, including Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister for Justice Greg Smith, who is eager to support the group’s work reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010.
- Learning to share
- A Multicultural Playgroup has been established at the Alexandria Community Centre. The group started as an offshoot of the Alexandria Park Playgroup to meet the needs of local families from non-English-speaking backgrounds reports Brendan Wong in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010.
- New regulations for disabled
- The Commonwealth Government has introduced a basic set of access standards for people with disabilities as part of a 10-year National Disability Strategy reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010.
- Last month’s demo on The Block
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010 has reported the following Redfern Waterloo item extracted below:
- Underground gardening
- Dozens of new rain gardens will be built throughout the city as part of the City of Sydney’s plan to treat stormwater pollution reports Tara Clifford in the South Sydney Herald of May 2010.
