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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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- The Fast News - Compiled by Trevor Davies
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
- Down but not out in Darlington
- Less than a year ago, Darlington resident Doug Hughes lived more than a comfortable life. As a marketing executive for a global broking company, he received a handsome six-figure salary and travelled the world on business trips where “no expense was spared reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009”.
- A spirited journey - Talking with Louise Hamilton
- We began by strolling around the grounds of the Alexandria Park Community Junior School as Louise Hamilton showed us an Aboriginal mural which had been painted on the fence more than 40 years before. As she stood in front of it for our photograph, I saw a strong spirited Aboriginal woman reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Redfern has its say on human rights
- On May 7, around 30 people from a range of backgrounds heard expert views at a Community Consultation on Human Rights at Redfern Town Hall reports Neil Whitfield in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Whose responsibility?
- Society has no respect for itself. Well, that’s the perception held by New South Wales’ top cop, Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione. And it is because of this epidemic of self-loathing that society has attempted to medicate itself with alcohol. The mix of the two creates a concoction for excessive violence across Sydney every weekend. According to the Commissioner, the only method of dealing with this issue is with the brute force of the NSW police writes Nicholas McCallum in this opinion piece in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Welfare services feel the pinch
- The recession is continuing to challenge inner-city welfare groups as unemployment rises and more people seek support reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Changes a-comin’ down the track
- A Rail Corp review of City Rail staffing levels is currently underway at Redfern and Erskineville stations, causing local concern about potential cuts in station staff reports Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Rosebery residents say no to “mega depot”
- The Rosebery Residents Action Group was formed a few years ago in reaction to Hillsong Church’s plan to put a 2,700-seat auditorium in the old RTA site at Rosebery and to operate from 7am to 10.30pm seven days a week. Now the Action Group is battling the City of Sydney, which, it says, is planning “a regional depot for 5.30am garbage compactors, street sweepers throughout the night and 24-hour Council Rangers” Reports the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Weekend markets – a way out of recession?
- In an age of super-sized shopping centres and purchasing goods online, the humble weekend market is growing more popular than ever. Each weekend thousands of people flock to Glebe, Paddington, Kings Cross and Eveleigh markets to shop, eat and immerse themselves in the energy of the local community reports Todd Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Speculation on Broadway
- Two years ago to the month the SSH reported the eviction of tenants from the Carlton & United Breweries site on Broadway. In the same month, the site was purchased for development by Frasers Property reports Ann Deslandes in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Supermarket 2 – residents to fight again
- The community of Erskineville is again fighting plans to build a supermarket, despite the earlier rejection of an application by the same developers. The operators, identified as Thomas Dux/Woolworths, plan to build on the corner of Erskineville Road and Gowrie Street, which is also the same site proposed in 2008 by the original application reports Tara Cliff ord in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- Gender, power and Labor politics
- Environmental activist, Sydney University graduate and mother, Jenny McAllister, has recently been elected to the Labor Party Leadership Team, alongside Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Senior Trade Union leader Michael Williamson. Each member will assume the role of National President for a year, whilst the others act as Vice Presidents reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009.
- dumped trolleys anger locals
- Scores of shopping trolleys from a Coles supermarket in Surry Hills are being stolen and dumped in Redfern, according to residents reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 4 June 2009.
- Professor Patrick Dodson dines at the RWA’s Yaama Dhiyaan
- Esteemed Aboriginal leader Professor Patrick Dodson visited the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s Aboriginal training facilities on his recent visit to Sydney in his role as the Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit of the University of NSW reports this media release of 2 June 2009 from the RWA.
- Kristina Keneally encourages comment on Waterloo Aldi DA
- I am writing to encourage you to make your views known to the City of Sydney Council regarding a proposed Aldi Store in Waterloo writes the member for Heffron Kristina Keneally in this letter to residents.
- Seido Karate benefit tournament
- Kinga Farago won women's sparring at Seido benefit tournament Seido Karate dojo in Abercrombie St raised $2000 at an action-packed inter-dojo tournament reports Central on 2 June 2009.
- There goes the neighbourhood: Redfern gentrification gets an arty critique
- How is gentrification altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world? A handful of artists from here and abroad have tried to answer this in “There Goes The Neighbourhood’’, an exhibition, residency, discussion and publishing project reports Central on 30 May 2009.
- He was violent and controlling. She knew he was a killer
- Paul Wilkinson fabricated death threats against his wife and child to get them out of the house while he was having an affair. Michael Duffy reports on the case of a master manipulator in the May 29, 2009 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald. [REDWatch is carrying this media article as Paul Wilkinson provided evidence regarding the death of TJ Hicky and Redfern Police to the 2004 Inquiry into Redfern Waterloo].
- Redfern's bird sculpture hatches angry response
- IT is meant to represent a bowerbird's courtship ritual. But to many passers-by, a public sculpture in Redfern is a distressing reminder of a sad chapter in the suburb's history reports Elicia Murray the Sydney Morning Herald Urban Affairs Reporter on May 28, 2009.
- Redfern-Waterloo set on safety
- Council has bowed to community pressure and agreed to consider a future for the Redfern-Waterloo Community Safety Plan reports Emma Rugg in City news on 28 May 2009.
