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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.
- The Difficult Rebirth of Redfern
- This article by Geoff Turnbull from "There goes the Neighbourhood: Redfern and the Politics of Urban Space" looks at Government interventions in Redfern since the establishment of the Premier's Departments Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project.
- The Man's French connection
- When French photographer Yann Audic first set eyes on Anthony Mundine, he was immediately impressed reports Chris Barrett in The Brisbane Times of May 27, 2009.
- Kids on The Block take on criminals
- THERE'S trash talk at The Block again. But this time the fighting words in Redfern are coming from an unusual source reports Elicia Murray the Sydney Morning Herals’s Urban Affairs Reporter on May 23, 2009.
- Pub buyers return to the bar
- BUYERS are returning to the Sydney pub market. Deals totalling nearly $70 million were completed or agreed in recent weeks, according to market analysis from CB Richard Ellis Carolyn Cummins and Chris Vedelago in the May 23, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald.
- CHIPPENDALE SUSTAINABILITY IMPROVEMENTS
- Work begins soon on pedestrian, cycling, traffic and environmental sustainability improvements in Chippendale, implementing the results of consultation and Council planning for the area reports Clover Moore's eNews Friday 22 May 2009 - No. 448.
- Diving shares teach uni tough lesson
- THE University of Sydney will defer building projects after incurring a $160 million operating loss last year, due largely to the huge hit it took on its investments reports Heath Gilmore the Sydney Morning Heralds Higher Education Reporter on May 21, 2009.
- PCYC Open Day gathers unsung social saviours
- To the uninitiated, Open Day at Woolloomooloo’s newly renovated Police and Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) revealed an alliance of committed people and official programs co-operating to provide opportunities and positive role models for inner-city youth reports Michael Gormly in City news of 21 May 2009.
- Message from the ATP MD Roy Wakelin-King
- The following appeared the ATP's electronic newsletter in May 2009 and it provides some information about activites at the ATP. The link to the newletter is provided at the foot of the page.
- CarriageWorks Busiest Weekend Notice - 15 & 16 May 2009
- On 15 and 16 May, CarriageWorks will experience the busiest weekend it has had since it opened. Every performance space in the building has something happening in it and there are the Eveleigh and Finder's Keepers Markets. The result will be two days of heavy foot and Vehicle traffic that may have an impact on surrounding neighbours. Below is the notice issued by CarriageWorks to those attending but they have also asked for it to be passed on to local residents.
- KIMBERLEY'S PASTORAL JEWEL TO BE RETURNED
- ROEBUCK Plains, a cattle station purchased amid controversy by the Indigenous Land Corporation before becoming a $30million jewel in the Kimberley pastoral industry, is to be handed back to Aboriginal traditional owners reports Stuart Rintoul in the Australian of 19 May 2009. [REDWatch Note – While this article does not directly relate to Redfern Waterloo our decision to post this article is because it raises concerns about how the ILC works and consults with another Aboriginal Community which has also been a concern raised in Redfern Waterloo.]
- Chap off the old Block is pushing hard for the new
- Like the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy, who fought early colonists, Mick Mundine is no shirker and is hell bent on redeveloping The Block, his patch for almost 40 years. John Ellicott reports in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 May 2009.
- I ON EXCELLENCE – NCIE Newsletter 1 – May 2009
- This is the text of the first National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) newsletter which was distributed in May 2009. The distributed PDF was not searchable or possible to copy from so we have made this text version from an OCR of the newsletter. It should be noted that the text of the pdf newsletter differs from the text in the news stories of the same name on the news section of www.ncie.org.au
- Wheelchair access at top of Macdonaldtown station stairs
- IT COULD be Sydney's stupidest station - Macdonaldtown, right next door to the city and in the heartland of the progressive Inner-West, boasts a wheelchair-accessible phone and ramps for wheelchair users to get on and off trains reports Joe Hilderbrand in The Daily Telegraph of 18 May 2009.
- Idol auditions at Redfern
- Narrow definitions of talent are gone and the hunt for genuine individuality is on at Eveleigh this weekend, where auditions for the seventh series of Australian Idol are underway reports Kim Shaw on Central on 16 May 2009.
- 18 charged after raids at 'The Block' in Redfern
- A major drug raid at ‘The Block’ at Redfern, in Sydney’s inner suburbs, has led to 18 people being charged reports Annika Burgess on Macquarie national News of 14 May 2009.
- Developer looks for Changes on Rachel Forster Site
- An increase of 9 residential units and 9 car spaces are included in the plans prepared by the new owner of the former Rachael Forster site reports REDWatch's Geoff Turnbull.
- Fear worse than reality in Redfern
- A handful of high profile crimes in recent weeks has created a perception of fear in Redfern according to local police reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 14 may 2009.
- Redfern drug raid
- Police have arrested and charged 18 people after a major drug raid in ‘The Block’ at Redfern, in Sydney’s inner suburbs reports Central on 14 May 2009.
- Waterloo Youthy gets Federal Funding
- The Federal Government has contributed $2 million toward redeveloping the Waterloo Youth Facility reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 13 May 2009.
- Jobs For The Mob
- With the global economy in trouble, joblessness is on a lot of people's minds. A program in Sydney's Redfern is relieving this anxiety for many. The Koori Job Ready course trains unemployed Aboriginal men - including some who've had difficult home lives - for jobs in the construction industry reports SBS’s Living Black on 11 May 2009.
