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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. 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.
3801 Limited Calls on Government to renew Lease to Allow its ongoing Operations
In a Media release dated 31st July 3801 Limited said tha the NSW Government has agreed that the continued operation of the 3801 locomotive is of importance to the people of NSW. However, they do not see the importance of the not for profit company 3801 Limited continuing despite its proven track record of operating without government funding for 20 years.
RABBITOHS ENDORSE COUNCIL'S PLANS FOR REDFERN OVAL
The South Sydney Football Club has endorsed the plans for the redevelopment of Redfern Park that have been made public by the City of Sydney this week by media release and on their website www.souths.com.au
Sparkling new turf Rabbitohs will be proud to call home
GONE are the concrete walls, barbed wire and the old grandstand. In their place Redfern Park emerges as an open green space and Rabbitohs training ground with a new playground, kiosk and restored fountain reports Sherrill Nixon SMH Urban Affairs Editor July 27, 2006.
REDWatch Supports Rally to keep The Block in Aboriginal Hands
“REDWatch supports the planned rally to keep the future of The Block in Aboriginal hands and to protest against intervention by the NSW Government to limit the development of Aboriginal Housing on the Block,” Geoffrey Turnbull REDWatch spokesperson said today.
Black and White unite to keep The Block in Aboriginal hands
In a media release on 25 July 2006 Aboriginal Housing Company CEO Mick Mundine and Isabel Coe have called for supporters of Aboriginal housing on The Block to attend a historic protest against the NSW Government on August 10th. They fear that NSW Minister for Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor is trying to take control of The Block away from Aboriginal people.
Residents protest outside Sartor's home - Frankly, we do give a damn
RESIDENTS fighting an 800-house development backed by Planning Minister Frank Sartor surprised him with a noisy protest outside his home yesterday reports DAVID FISHER The Daily Telegraphs Political Reporter on Monday July 24 2006.
Loco for 3801 to lose steam
By The Daily Telegraph’s cartoonist and enthusiast Warren Brown July 24, 2006
Harlem to Clinton: We Want You Out!
Some Harlem residents want former President Bill Clinton to pack up and get out -- with the quickness. Reports Tracy Stokes, BET.com Staff Writer & Wire Services and Posted July 24, 2006.
Premier locks up chiefs for powwow on plan
FOR 12 hours a day, for three days this week, every chief executive in the NSW Government was locked away working on Morris Iemma's plan to have a plan reports Andrew Clennell in the SMH July 21, 2006.
Historic locomotive rail-roaded
THE NSW Government has been accused of forcing Australia's most famous heritage steam train off the rails and demolishing its home to make way for a high-rise apartment block reports the Daily Telegraph July 18, 2006.
Hillsong emerges to serve jobless
THE welfare arm of the Hillsong Church will be the biggest non-government provider of services to unemployed people in NSW under a new Federal Government welfare-to-work program reports Adele Horin in the SMH July 13, 2006.
NSW GOVERNMENT TO CLOSE DOWN 3801 LIMITED
The much loved 3801 steam locomotive will no longer be located or operated from Sydney after November under current plans by RailCorp according to this media statement from 3801 Limited on 13 July 2006.
Joining the force is deadly for this mob
AFTER just a fortnight together in Goulburn, one mob has emerged from the record class of more than 900 police recruits at the NSW Police College as a potentially deadly new force reports Stephen Gibbs in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Indigenous Youth Centre for Redfern - 11 July 2006
This Media statement was issued by the NSW and Australian Governments on 11 July 2006 to announce that the ILC would proceed to purchase the former Redfern Public School site and establish a National Indigenous Development Centre.
Redfern to house youth centre
The New South Wales and federal governments have announced plans to build a $34 million national centre for Indigenous youth in the Sydney suburb of Redfern.
Developers beat a path to Sartor's door as critics query powers
DEVELOPERS desperate to sidestep local councils are queueing at Frank Sartor's door, as the Planning Minister's empire grows to take in more than 200 projects across NSW reports Sherrill Nixon the SMH Urban Affairs Editor.
Sartor Delivers on Redfern-Waterloo Jobs Plan
The Following media release concerning the release of the final Redfern Waterloo Employment and Enterprise Plan was issued by Minister Sartor on 5 July 2006.
Edna’s Table spread before Indigenous community
The founders of Sydney’s famed Edna’s Table restaurants have teamed up with the Redfern Aboriginal community to create a hospitality training college for local school leavers reports Judith White in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
Rebuilding The Block: Tent Embassy comes to Redfern
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has established a site in Redfern to protest against the NSW Government’s failure to allow new housing on The Block. The Redfern Waterloo Authority recently rezoned The Block and consequently limited the number of residential properties that could be built on the land reports Joseph Correy in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
Renaissance in Redfern – My Observation
Last year, The South Sydney Herald had an article from Denise Davis who had been to the big apple, New York, and looked with interest at Harlem - the sometime infamous New York suburb which over the past decade has been transformed. She drew some comparison between Harlem and Redfern. Here, former New Yorker Elliot Yancey who now resident in Redfern-Waterloo, adds to the discussion on whether we can learn anything from Harlem writes Elliot Yancey in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
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