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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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- Blaming Redfern
- Repeated references to Redfern in crime reports are encouraging perceptions about the level of crime in the suburb reports Brendon Wong in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Roller shutters blight streetscapes
- The problem of solid roller shutter doors on the business landscape of inner-city Sydney has been a “festering sore” for far too long, according to the Potts Point and Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Inner-city happiness
- In a recent report compiled by Professor of Psychology at Deakin University, Bob Cummins, it was stated that some of Australia’s most unhappy suburbs are right in our backyard. Newtown and Redfern, as well as St Peters and Surry Hills, were named in the gloomy group. The Australian Unity-Wellbeing Index Report also stated that our country cousins are happiest in communities of 40,000 people or less reports Nicholas McCallum & Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Have you heard? - The fast news with Trevor Davies – March 2009
- Trevor Davies has reported on a number of items of interest to Redfern Waterloo in his column in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Support for the Keeping Place
- Gordon and Elaine Syron and their collection of over 1300 paintings and thousands of photographs and artefacts have been given more time by the RWA to negotiate a new, hopefully permanent, home for the collection following a recent meeting with Minister Keneally reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- The National Apology – one year on
- February, Friday the 13th, the skies are dark with the threat of heavy rain as I ride down Eveleigh Street towards the Community Centre where the first anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations is being celebrated reports Peter Whitehead in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Swans star meets kids at Darlo School
- Michael O’Loughlin is one of the AFL’s great players and holds the Swans club record for the most games played. In recent times the Indigenous star has played as full forward. They say the trainers will only let him have a set number of kicks a week to try and extend his playing life as long as possible reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Sydney’s first Lebanese restaurant Wilsons of Pitt Street Redfern
- Wilson Mrouh and his brother Marcelle founded the first Lebanese restaurant in Sydney, on their arrival as immigrants, 51 years ago. At that time, they had to arrange for nearly all the ingredients they needed to be brought in by travellers from Lebanon, so novel was the Lebanese menu. On the wall of the restaurant now, you can see a page out of an old newspaper of 1967 on which is a write-up of the opening of the restaurant and a description of what was then regarded as its unusual food reports Dorothy McRae McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Journey towards a dream – Reader profile Pamela Neville
- Pamela Neville has lived in Redfern since 1994 and loves it. She was born in Parkes when it was the centre of a wheat belt, rather than the Elvis capital of the world, and left there at the age of four. Her father worked in a bank and the family moved home about every two years as he was transferred around the state. Pam remembers her newborn sister being carried in a shoe-box as they travelled to Garah, near the Queensland border. It was the rail head for wheat and sheep sales and there was no electricity or running water in the town – the power grid was turned on the day they left! She became used to a changing lifestyle in small country towns and still loves to go back and view the wide horizons and watch for shooting stars reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Vale – Peter Symon
- Newspaper editors rarely allow the words “kindness”, “patience” and “socialism” to coexist in one sentence. However, you’ll need to indulge us, as we join the Guardian in remembrance of the life and times of our Comrade, Peter Symon reports Nick Tesoriero in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Arranging Elderflowers – An interview with playwright Alana Valentine
- Alana Valentine is a Redfern playwright with previous success in telling the stories of the South Sydney Rabbitohs in Run, Rabbit, Run, and the residents of Parramatta Girls’ Home in Parramatta Girls reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- More trouble for Yiu Ming temple
- The City of Sydney has just finished hosting festivities to welcome the Chinese New Year but the residents of the historic Yiu Ming temple complex have little to celebrate. The compound behind Botany Road has witnessed an ongoing saga over construction, with the latest development plans proposing an IGA supermarket and liquor store reports Tara Clifford in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Additional Affordable Housing for Green Square and Ultimo
- Federal Member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek MP, recently toured affordable housing in Pyrmont, managed by City West Housing reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Sydney to host Edinburgh Military Tattoo
- Sydney has beat New York, Melbourne and Auckland to win the right to host the Edinburgh Military Tattoo for the second time [and the replica castle is stored in Redfern] reports ABC News of 3 March 2009.
- Broadway’s blockbuster : Carlton United site green light
- Final approval has been given for the Broadway Carlton United Breweries site project, five years after it was first slated for redevelopment reports Robert Burton Bradley in Central of 25 February 2008..
- Unis learn some hard lessons about their money
- The state's top universities are fighting to hold the line against course and research cuts after losing hundreds of millions of dollars in investments exposed to falling financial markets reports Malcolm Knox in the Sydney Morning Herald of 24 February 2009.
- Local Representation for All
- Despite the Government's claim that the 2004 amalgamation of the City and South Sydney Councils was to improve the efficiency and quality of services, it has not addressed the duplication by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) and the Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) says Clover Moore's eNews of Friday 20 February 2009 - No. 435.
- Train tragics' heritage project on track
- PUT the name Rowling into a story about a famous train and most people will think the Hogwarts Express reports Mark O’Brien in the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader of 19 February 2009.
- 1,200 Construction Jobs in Bigger, Greener Development for Carlton United Breweries
- Premier Nathan Rees has announced changes to plans for the Carlton United Breweries site in Chippendale, which will deliver more open space for the local community and extra affordable housing reports this media release from the NSW Premier on 19 February 2009.
- Premier announces approval of concept plan for Frasers Broadway site
- Sydney – 19 February 2009 – Frasers Property today welcomed the New South Wales Government’s decision to approve the modified concept plan for the Frasers Broadway site (the old Carlton United Brewery) in Chippendale. This approval, from Planning Minister The Hon. Kristina Keneally, announced today by Premier The Hon. Nathan Rees, gives the green light to opening up this 5.8 hectare site in inner Sydney, closed to the public for 150 years reports this statement from Frasers on 19 February 2009.
