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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.
Old brewery site to become Sydney park
Where they rolled out the barrel for more than 150 years, they'll soon be rolling, cutting and watering lawn. The lawn will sit amid acres of tranquil parkland on the edge of Sydney's CBD - the former site of Carlton and United's Broadway brewery reports AAP in the Sydney Morning Herald of 8 February 2010.
The touching gesture he'll always remember
IT WAS the moment a cinematic gladiator reduced a footballing warrior to tears. Before his first match for the Rabbitohs - a trial game against Manly before a few hundred diehard fans - Russell Crowe escorted Sam Burgess to the southern end of Redfern Oval writes Glenn Jackson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 8 February 2010.
RWA UPDATE Issue #4 - 8th February 2010
This is the RWA’s electronic Update which was issued on 8 February 2010.
The Dining Experience in Waterloo and Redfern
It will be interesting to see how Housing NSW conducts itself and manages the behaviour of its staff and associates/partners in the forthcoming largest Estate Redevelopment it has ever handled, which is scheduled for the Redfern Waterloo area. The area in question has some 4,500 households living in Housing NSW owned and managed properties writes Ross Smith in TSN's Rimfire Review of 8 February 2010 .
Construction on CUB Central Park’s main park and infrastructure set to commence immediately
The New South Wales Department of Planning has given approval to Frasers Property Australia to commence building the main park and related infrastructure such as roads, footpaths and traffic lights reports this media release from Frasers Property.
Tap-dancing penguins return in Happy Feet 2
Hot and steamy conditions would frighten off most penguins, but not the batch tap-dancing and thumping around energetically in Sydney weather yesterday to give a taste of the sequel to one of Australia's most successful films reports the Sydney Morning Herald of 5 February 2010.
HNSW Waterloo Update January 2010
In early February 2010 Housing NSW released separate Updates on HNSW activities in Redfern and Waterloo. Both updates included an update on the RWA Built Environment Plan Phase 2. Below is the text of the Waterloo Update. A link to the Redfern Update is available at the foot of this page.
HNSW Redfern Update January 2010
In early February 2010 Housing NSW released separate Updates on HNSW activities in Redfern and Waterloo. Both updates included an update on the RWA Built Environment Plan Phase 2. Below is the text of the Redfern Update. A link to the Waterloo Update is available at the foot of this page.
Top Chef Kylie Kwong Cooks Up Chinese New Year Cuisine at Eveleigh Market
Renowned Australian Chinese Chef Kylie Kwong will demonstrate some of her culinary delights to the public on Saturday 20th February at the Eveleigh Farmers’ Market, where she will cook up several dishes to celebrate Chinese New Year reports this media statement from Eveleigh Markets on 3 February 2010.
Souths pokies dispute “political”
It has been three years since members of the South Sydney Leagues Club have been able to enjoy a beer to the tinny drone of the Club’s 60 poker machines. Now in the twilight stages of a $13.75 million redevelopment, the Redfern-based club has been beleaguered by spats with City of Sydney councillors and the on-going question of whether it can survive without the revenue raised by pokies reports Georgina Flynn in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Saving the Settlement
The Sydney University Settlement, also known as the Settlement, has received State Government funding that will help begin the long-awaited redevelopment of the Settlement Neighbourhood Centre hall reports Joel Pringle in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Lion’s share of fundraising effort
The Redfern-Waterloo Lions Club raises money the old-fashioned way: with barbecues and bake sales, rather than hefty corporate donations. By mastering the art of the small gesture, the fledgling club has raised money for programs as diverse as the annual Yabun Aboriginal Festival, Lions Hearing Dogs Australia, and the Tribal Warrior Association. “It was about bringing people together,” says John Lanzky, co-founder of the Redfernbased outfit. That’s what it’s all about” reports Georgina Flynn in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Indigenous Centre off to an excellent start
There was a buzz of excitement, with people meeting and greeting and looking around at the Open Day of the new National Centre for Indigenous Excellence in George Street, Redfern. The children were in the pool and watching in anticipation the arrival of the colourful inflatable which would challenge their balancing skills – all in good fun when you just fall into the water! reports Dorothy Mcrae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Tempers flare over M5 into Tempe
Tempe residents are outraged by NSW Government plans to build an arterial road through Tempe Reserve as part of the M5 corridor expansion. The arterial surface road was announced in an RTA paper in December and aims to connect the M5 East Tunnel to the airport and the industrial areas of South Sydney reports Melanie Kembrey in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Have you heard? - The fast news with Trevor Davies – February 2010
Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
Yaama Dhiyaan’s growing family
Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo’s story is captivating in its own right, involving an improbable rise from working in the affluent Eastern Suburbs of Sydney as a nanny, to her status today as an Indigenous community leader and co-founder of Yaama Dhiyaan Hospitality Training College. While Aunty Beryl’s past represents a rich personal narrative, it is through her efforts at the Darlington-based hospitality school that she creates a future for her students reports Georgia Flynn in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Access to Services easier for Indigenous residents
Trying to navigate around the services available to the community can be hard work, or in some cases like finding a needle in a haystack. Now it won’t be so difficult. Just calling James or Michael will start you on the right track. They can meet with you or answer your calls reports the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Waterloo not the poor country cousin
There were two articles in the December 2009 SSH that perpetuated the practice of categorising Waterloo as the third-class suburb of the former South Sydney local government area writes Ross Smith from Waterloo in this letter in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Rovers, the “Premier” team
The Hon. Kristina Keneally MP, Premier of NSW gave up some of her precious time on Australia Day to drop by and lend a hand to the Alexandria Rovers who were running a food stand at Yabun 2010 at Victoria Park reports Perry Johnstone in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Reducing Homelessness: One year on
A capital grant of $16 million to build a specialist aged care facility for homeless people in Redfern was reported in Member for Sydney Tanya Plibersek’s advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010
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