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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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- Tanya Plibersek on Closing the gap on Indigenous employment
- The following Advertisement from Tanya Plibersek, Federal Member for Sydney dealt with Closing the gap on Indigenous employment in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010
- Voice of refugee youth
- South Sydney Community Aid is celebrating the receipt of a $50,000 grant that will benefit young African Muslim refugees reports Philip Wen in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
- Uber cool, with affordable comfort
- A talent explosion is occurring in what is becoming Sydney’s hippest neighbourhood for interior design – Redfern! Known for some time by the more price conscious retro furniture cognoscenti, first Regent and now Redfern streets are home to several of the trendiest shops in the city. Leading the way in affordability and style is A Pair of Chairs, owned by local resident, Kim Stewart reports the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
- In praise of difference, decadence and diversity
- Elaine Pelot Syron was born into photography. Her father, John Crews Pelot, was an American WWI documentary photographer, and her own passion was ignited during the 1970s with the genesis of Aboriginal legal, medical and land rights. “History was happening around me. I responded with objective images,” she says. Report by Andrew Woodhouse in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010
- Androgyny de-certified?
- Over the past month resident cartoonist for the SSH, known simply as Norrie, has had a unique and not sometimes unwanted experience. After becoming the first person in New South Wales to be registered as “Sex: Not Specified”, Norrie also became the first person to have such a non-distinction taken away reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
- Hospital site – a step closer to affordable housing target
- After years in limbo, the old South Sydney Hospital site will finally be put to good use. The City of Sydney Council has endorsed City West Housing (CWH) to build up to 150 affordable housing units on the site. This will be one step towards the Council reaching its target of 15 per cent affordable housing by 2030 reports Rebecca LeMay in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
- Meet the Greens candidate for Sydney - Tony Hickey
- Chippendale teacher and openly gay man, Tony Hickey, has won the Greens pre-selection vote to contest the seat of Sydney at the next federal election reports Melanie Kembrey in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
- Wide Support for weekly welfare payments
- Redfern resident, Matthew Panny, receives his disability support pension every two weeks. Mr Panny may soon receive payment every week if new legislation introduced by the Federal Government is passed reports Melanie Kembray in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
- Off with his head: prince pledges to return warrior's skull
- THE Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy was a ''pest to the colony'' who led the first war of resistance against British settlers before he was shot, decapitated and his head sent to England. But now the future king of England has made it his personal mission to ensure Pemulwuy's remains come home writes Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1 April 2010.
- Cannabis: It’s Not Our Culture exhibition
- An Indigenous art exhibition, to be held on Tuesday, March 30 at 11 am – 12.30 pm at CarriageWorks will launch the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre’s (NCPIC) Indigenous project, ‘Cannabis: It’s not our culture’. The project entails a dedicated website: http://www.notourculture.org.au, the one-day exhibition, and development of resources for Indigenous healthcare workers reports The Southern Courier on 31 March 2010.
- Chicka Dixon funeral: State funeral for Aboriginal warrior
- Aboriginal activist Charles “Chicka” Dixon’s state funeral today featured traditional Aboriginal body paint, the black power salute (made famous at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games) and a coffin draped in the Aboriginal flag and covered with messages from those left behind writes Raylene Bliss in the Southern Courier on 31 March 2010.
- Sydney rain gardens clean up
- Dozens of new rain gardens will be planted across Sydney as part of the City of Sydney’s plan to harvest and treat stormwater writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 29 March 2010.
- Platform 3: A massive weekend of Hip Hop at CarriageWorks Redfern
- Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival at CarriageWorks was the biggest yet, with a weekend of popping, locking, jamming and graff art, beat boxing and scratching reports Sydney Central 0n 24 March 2010.
- Central Clarification Regarding Robert Domm, ICAC & RWA
- The following appeared under the heading “Clarification” in the Central of 24 March 2010.
- Aboriginal activist Charles 'Chicka' Dixon to receive state funeral
- CHARLES ''CHICKA'' DIXON, one of the most prominent Aboriginal activists of the 1960s and 1970s, has died after a long battle with asbestosis, aged 81 reports Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 23 March 2010.
- 52 Suburbs - Suburbs Number 6 Eveleigh & 28 Redfern
- My name is Louise. I've lived in Sydney for over 30 years but have never set foot in most of its 600 plus suburbs. Now I'm on a mission to explore and photograph one new Sydney suburb a week for a year in search of the beauty in the 'burb. Care to join me? [Eveligh & Redfern have already been covered].
- NRL struggling to secure home loan, despite code being on upswing
- Negotiations between the NRL and banks to secure a loan to build new headquarters have stalled because of the code's 10-year history of near-zero cash balances. Reports Roy Masters in the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 March 2010. [One of the possible locations according to the article is the Australian Technology Park at Redfern].
- Community Consultation Parking Study in Local Area Adjacent Australian Technology Park
- Following a community meeting in December last year where parking issues were raised, the Australian Technology Park Precinct Management Limited (ATPPML) has appointed Transport and Urban Planning to undertake a parking study in the local streets adjacent the ATP site reports Newsletter 1 from Transport and Urban Planning on 19 March 2010.
- Government backtracks on gender ruling
- THE case of the state's first genderless citizen has forced the equivalent of a bureaucratic sex change on the government reports Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 19 March 2010. [Norrie lives in Redfern].
- Australian governments failing
- Governments are failing the estimated 50% of early school leavers who can’t find a job, and forcing charities to pick up the slack according to Rev. Bill Crews, Executive Chairman of The Exodus Foundation reports Christian Today on 17 March 2010.
