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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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- No funds for Redfern's The Block yet
- A $60 million redevelopment of the notorious inner-Sydney precinct The Block is a step closer to reality, but no one knows where the money will come from reports ninmsn on 2 july 2009.
- Pemulwuy Project to Breathe new life into the Block
- This is the media release from Kristina Keneally Minister for Planning and Minister for Redfern Waterloo annoucing approval of the Aboriginal Housing Company's Pemulwuy Project Concept Plan on Wednesday 2 July 2009.
- AHC Pemulwuy Project receives Planning Approval
- The Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally on 2 July 2009 announced approval for the Aboriginal Housing Company's Pemulwuy Project Concept Plan writes Geoff Turnbull from REDWatch.
- City welcomes Pemulwuy project
- The Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore MP welcomed the State Government's commitment to the Pemulwuy Project reports this media release from the city of Sydney on 2 july 2009.
- Artist finds haven in chaotic city life
- While the Redfern-Waterloo public housing estate has a troubled reputation, one local has found artistic inspiration in a small spot in the frantic inner city suburb reports Angus Thompson on 2 July 2009.
- Redfern's The Block to be redeveloped
- TWN years of dispute over a $60 million housing project for Sydney's notorious The Block precinct has ended but no one has committed to funding the Aboriginal development reports Vincent Morello from Agence France-Presse on 2 July 2009.
- The Block: Past, Present and Future
- More than any other urban area in Australia, the Block in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Redfern, has become a meeting place and, some say, spiritual home for city-dwelling Aborigines. However, it has also long struggled with problems of crime, violence and drug-dealing. When not in jail, stolen-generation member Bill Simon has lived on or near to the block for much of his adult life, and his recent book, "Back to the Block" is a moving and personal account of his life story and triumph over his demons. His friend, the Aboriginal Housing Company CEO Mick Mundine, is overseeing the proposed redevelopment of the area. Here, they're at Gleebooks, discussing the Block: its stories, its problems, and its importance.
- 'Brand new day': Green light for Block overhaul
- The Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern is celebrating after plans to breathe new life into The Block were finally given the go-ahead reports ABC on 2 July 2009.
- Exhibition of Amended RWA Town Centre Development Controls
- The Department of Planning has placed changes to RWA Height of Buildings map for the Redfern Town Centre. The changes reduce the street wall / podium heights from 5 to 2-3 storeys and reduce the setbacks of tower buildings. The full details of the exhibition are in the advertisement below which appeared in the classified section of Central of 1 July 2009. The RWA website will soon include a link to the exhibited documents.
- Frasers Property contributes $6 million to affordable housing
- Leading international developer, Frasers Property, has paid the first $6 million instalment of a total $32 million it pledged to the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) as part of its purchase agreement to acquire and develop the Carlton United Brewery site in Chippendale reports this media release from Frasers on 1 July 2009.
- Redfern community honours leader’s survival story
- Horrible memories were unearthed but the launch of Pastor Bill Simon’s autobiography, Back on the Block, last Tuesday was most certainly a day of celebration reports Angus Thompson on 25 June 2009.
- Danger of refuge being destroyed in Block battle
- Perhaps the most wrenching moment in Bill Simon's autobiography, Back On The Block, is when, as a young man, he meets the mother from whom he was stolen as a child. Throughout his wretched teen years, No.33, as he was in Kinchela Boys' Home, had sustained himself and his three younger brothers on hopes of reunion. But when the moment comes she barely knows him. Worse, he finds himself unable - ever - to forgive her failure to protect them writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 June 2009.
- Rein launches book on Stolen Generations
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's wife Therese Rein has visited The Block at the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern to launch a book about the Stolen Generations reported ABC news on 16 June 2009.
- Minister grabs power to make heritage history
- HISTORIC buildings could be taken off the heritage list and redeveloped after the NSW Government changed laws protecting them writes Matthew Benns in the Sydney Morning Herald of June 14 2009.
- Sandstone on hold at Sydney University
- THE global financial crisis has hit Sydney University finances hard and may force it to delay some of its ambitious building program reports Rebecca Woolley on 9 June 2009.
- Living lab proposal takes shape
- A DEAL to build a software laboratory in Sydney where businesses can find answers to real-world problems on the fly has inched closer to a result with a proposal landing on the desk of Industry Minister Kim Carr reports Stuart Kennedy in the Australian of June 09, 2009
- Surviving institutional abuse
- Bill Simon is a pastor working in the heart of Redfern. Back on the Block is the story of his life, simply told writes Andrena Jamieson in Eureka Street on 5 June 2009.
- Council plans for a new Darlington
- Councillor John McInerney responds to the May SSH article on Abercrombie Street, Darlington in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Makeover for South Sydney Youth Services
- South Sydney Youth Services’ main facility will be upgraded next year to provide better resources for supporting young people in the community. The redevelopment of the building at Waterloo Oval will be funded in a joint venture between Federal and Local Government, Minister for Infrastructure and Local Government Anthony Albanese announced last month reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Making our suburbs safe
- The City of Sydney staff has done a very good job developing safety plans for Redfern, Waterloo and Glebe. City of Sydney CEO, Monica Barone, explains the background in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
