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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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- Historic locomotive rail-roaded
- THE NSW Government has been accused of forcing Australia's most famous heritage steam train off the rails and demolishing its home to make way for a high-rise apartment block reports the Daily Telegraph July 18, 2006.
- Hillsong emerges to serve jobless
- THE welfare arm of the Hillsong Church will be the biggest non-government provider of services to unemployed people in NSW under a new Federal Government welfare-to-work program reports Adele Horin in the SMH July 13, 2006.
- NSW GOVERNMENT TO CLOSE DOWN 3801 LIMITED
- The much loved 3801 steam locomotive will no longer be located or operated from Sydney after November under current plans by RailCorp according to this media statement from 3801 Limited on 13 July 2006.
- Joining the force is deadly for this mob
- AFTER just a fortnight together in Goulburn, one mob has emerged from the record class of more than 900 police recruits at the NSW Police College as a potentially deadly new force reports Stephen Gibbs in the Sydney Morning Herald.
- Indigenous Youth Centre for Redfern - 11 July 2006
- This Media statement was issued by the NSW and Australian Governments on 11 July 2006 to announce that the ILC would proceed to purchase the former Redfern Public School site and establish a National Indigenous Development Centre.
- Redfern to house youth centre
- The New South Wales and federal governments have announced plans to build a $34 million national centre for Indigenous youth in the Sydney suburb of Redfern.
- Developers beat a path to Sartor's door as critics query powers
- DEVELOPERS desperate to sidestep local councils are queueing at Frank Sartor's door, as the Planning Minister's empire grows to take in more than 200 projects across NSW reports Sherrill Nixon the SMH Urban Affairs Editor.
- Sartor Delivers on Redfern-Waterloo Jobs Plan
- The Following media release concerning the release of the final Redfern Waterloo Employment and Enterprise Plan was issued by Minister Sartor on 5 July 2006.
- Edna’s Table spread before Indigenous community
- The founders of Sydney’s famed Edna’s Table restaurants have teamed up with the Redfern Aboriginal community to create a hospitality training college for local school leavers reports Judith White in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Rebuilding The Block: Tent Embassy comes to Redfern
- The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has established a site in Redfern to protest against the NSW Government’s failure to allow new housing on The Block. The Redfern Waterloo Authority recently rezoned The Block and consequently limited the number of residential properties that could be built on the land reports Joseph Correy in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Renaissance in Redfern – My Observation
- Last year, The South Sydney Herald had an article from Denise Davis who had been to the big apple, New York, and looked with interest at Harlem - the sometime infamous New York suburb which over the past decade has been transformed. She drew some comparison between Harlem and Redfern. Here, former New Yorker Elliot Yancey who now resident in Redfern-Waterloo, adds to the discussion on whether we can learn anything from Harlem writes Elliot Yancey in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- International gifts of creativity for The Block
- I am a Black American woman from California. I studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, with a specialisation in African Areas. Soon after I graduated, I went on to work in Africa and was based in Harare, Zimbabwe. This extensive experience in international work has helped contribute to my work with the Aboriginal community in Redfern writes Angela Pitts in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Letters - Re Local MP calls for street drinkers to be moved into Wet Centres
- In your June 2006 edition, you ran an article ‘Local MP calls for Street Drinkers to be moved into Wet Centres’. It will be interesting to see if your paper is more interested in providing the ‘Harm Minimisation Industry’ mantra with an unchallenged forum than providing balance reporting on the treatment of addictive behaviour writes Ross Smith in this letter in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Lions Club starts up in Redfern
- The Lions Club is establishing a branch in Redfern-Waterloo, with the aim of helping the local community through various projects. The formative meeting was held in early June and the branch will be officially created once more local members join. The Lions already have in Australia over 1,400 clubs with 30,000 members. Being a service club, the bulk of their work is aimed at community service, particularly towards young, elderly and disabled people reports Bill Birtles in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Council to end waiting list nightmare for childcare places
- City of Sydney Council is considering the introduction of a centralised waiting list for all childcare facilities in the Local Government area. Deputy Lord Mayor Verity Firth says her experiences as an expectant mother led her to call for a this type of waiting list because the current system was a “bureaucratic nightmare" reports Joseph Correy in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- NSW Government grant sends Poet’s “over the moon”
- A birthday party atmosphere greeted the media and the Minister for Community Services, Reba Meagher and the Member for Heffron, Kristina Keneally when they arrived at the community based Poet’s Corner Preschool on a recent cold June morning. The occasion was the presentation of a cheque for $110,000 by Ms Meagher that is to be used to upgrade the school, allowing the accommodation of an extra five children reports Vladimir Korotkov in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- COUNCIL CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR CUB CONTROLS
- The City has unanimously confirmed its support for public exhibition of draft planning controls for the Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale and called on the Minister to respond to community concerns on the future of the site. (CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 30 June 2006 - No. 303)
- Home and away: Seven's new face
- CHANNEL Seven will move its television production centre to Redfern in 2009, in a $120 million development that will triple the workforce at Australian Technology Park and boost Redfern's urban renewal reports Sherrill Nixon SMH's Urban Affairs Editor.
- $150m TV studio for Redfern
- THE Seven Network and its property partner Rebel Property Group will build a $150 million television production and office complex at Sydney's Redfern reports Maurice Dunlevy in The Australian 29 June 29 2006.
- Skater's paradise - Waterloo Skate park
- Taking the street and putting it into a park is no easy task writes Alexandra Walker in the Sydney Central Courier of 28 June 2006.
