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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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- Life of a non-conformist priest
- Jonathan Hill reviews Edmund Campion: Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern in Eureka Street on July 17, 2009. (David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne, 2009. ISBN: 9781863551298 )
- The meddling priest and the Redfern prophet
- The following is an extract from Frank Brennan Frank Brennan's homily at the mass preceding the launch of Edmund Campion's Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern on July 16, 2009
- Black heart of Redfern doesn't miss a beat
- SYDNEY'S black urban heart has been in Redfern much longer than people think writes Debra Jopson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 10 July 2009.
- The Block declared alcohol-free
- The City of Sydney Council has declared The Block an alcohol-free zone after a request from Indigenous locals reports ABC news on 7 July 2009.
- 2 Live 2 Deadly
- From humble beginnings operating out of a terrace house in Redfern twenty years ago, the Aboriginal voice on Sydney radio has struggled to seal its place on the city's airwaves reports ABC’s Message Stick on 5 July 2009.
- Homeless, not helpless
- The subject of homelessness on Sydney’s inner-city streets is one sometimes ignored by mainstream media and negated by public policy makers; a seemingly invisible social condition left to wait on park benches and outside train stations reports Laura Banister in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Grand new community centre
- After two years away, the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre has come home – bigger, smarter and greener than ever reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- The Fred Hollows (or is it Cassius Clay?) of architecture
- You might not pick Col James as a fighter. He is slight of build. He has a friendly approach. But you were intended to make the same mistake about Clark Kent. Without the outside-underpants, Col has been a force for houses-for-the-people in South Sydney and beyond all his adult life. He has just “retired” as a Lecturer in Architecture at Sydney Uni. But as this article will hopefully make clear, that’s not going to stop him from making “housing a verb” (his phone-answering slogan) till the final bell reports Barrie McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Bill Simon’s Back on the Block
- It was standing room only in the Redfern Community Centre. After the welcome to country by Uncle Max, Michael Mundine chaired the occasion of the formal launching of Bill Simon’s book, Back on the Block reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Church survives “many depressions and many wars”
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, now barely visible amongst the dense suburb of Waterloo, sits proudly on a hill, as it has for almost 150 years. This year the parish, the oldest in Australia dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, will mark a century and a half of “life and ministry” reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- The Fast News - Compiled by Trevor Davies
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
- Pawn psychology – cash for gold
- Proprietor of Southside Money Lent, Robert Tarabo, has an honours degree in psychology. In the pawn broking business it’s a helpful qualification reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Newsagents in it to win it
- The State Government has put the NSW Lotteries Corporation up for sale. Originally introduced in 1931 by the newly elected Lang Labor Government, the State Lottery attracted controversy with many deriding the “vice” of gambling. But the State Lottery Bill was seen as the only way to solve the Government’s budget problems caused by the Great Depression reports James Diack in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Erko Oval now best in South Sydney
- Sydney Council has completed the final stage of its promised upgrade to Erskineville Oval, transforming the ground into the best junior training facility in South Sydney. Administrator and home team, the Alexandria Rovers, called upon Council to complete the last remaining phase of the upgrade to ensure the safety of the hundreds of children who use the ground each week reports Todd Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Automatic for FBi
- Although the nation has managed to avoid a technical recession, the effects of the GFC are beginning to materialise in Sydney. Citywide belt tightening has become an issue for Sydney’s formidable independent radio station FBi. The financial crisis has knocked off around $1 million in revenue that the station needs to survive reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Can the Greens take Balmain and Marrickville in 2011?
- Can the Greens take the seats of Balmain and Marrickville from Labor at the 2011 state election? History suggests not. Unlike Independents, minor parties have found it virtually impossible to win lower house seats. Since the 1940s, the sole minor party victory in a Legislative Assembly seat occurred in 1973, when Kevin Harrold, representing the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), won the seat of Gordon reports Rodney Smith in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Editorial on the Pemulwuy Project Approval in July 2009 South Sydney Herald
- The State Government has formally approved the Aboriginal Housing Company’s Pemulwuy Project on Aboriginal land in Redfern.
- Approval Paves the Way for Pemulwuy
- The Aboriginal Housing Company is celebrating a great victory – the battle for Pemulwuy is over. The Department of Planning has finally approved the AHC’s development application, marking the end of a ten-year saga to get the project off the ground reports Lisa Moon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Green light for The Block development
- There is a joke around Redfern that if the long-awaited redevelopment of The Block ever goes ahead, a statue of former planning minister Frank Sartor should take pride of place reports Elicia Murray Urban Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald on 3 July 2009.
- $60m to overhaul The Block, Redfern
- AN ambitious revival of The Block in Sydney has been unveiled but no one has offered to pay the bill of $60 million to fix what was a crime-ridden inner-city slum reports Vikki Campion and AAP in The Daily Telegraph of 3 July 2009.
