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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.
- A sorry site
- THE Carlton & United Breweries site on Broadway is one of Sydney's prime development sites, six hectares of opportunity on the southern edge of the city centre. Trains, buses and major roads are at its door, leading universities are its near neighbours. The regeneration of this historic site should be a model of how Sydney can build for its future, without forgetting its past. So far, however, it exemplifies only the chaotic state of planning in the heart of Australia's biggest city. [SMH Editorial August 19, 2006]
- Battlers and bulldozers
- Public housing is more difficult than ever to get into and poor people are forced to rent privately, often struggling to put food on the table. Debra Jopson looks at what went wrong in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 19, 2006.
- Brewer's plan for Broadway site leaves residents reeling in horror
- THE Carlton & United Breweries site in Broadway will become a "mini-Manhattan on steroids", its neighbours fear after graphic images of the potential new city skyline were shown at a meeting. Report by Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor Sydney Morning Herald August 18, 2006.
- More Local Bus Services for Heffron
- Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald 18 August 2006 reports that State Transit will run six additional bus services in the AM and PM peaks on local bus routes in Heffron. With a common peak hour complaint in Redfern Waterloo of buses being full by the time they get to Redfern Waterloo this may assist Redfern Waterloo peak hour travellers as well.
- Hillsong Rosebery Project
- Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald 18 August 2006 reports on Hillsongs Plans for a new auditorium and facilities in Rosebery which would allow Hillsong to move from its current site in Waterloo.
- More Police Officers for Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney
- Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald of 18 August 2006 advised that Redfern will get eight new police officers in September 2006 with the possibility of additional numbers in January 2007.
- OWNERS' "SCOPING PLAN" TO DETERMINE CUB SITE
- It was revealed at the public meeting on Chippendale's Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site this week that Fosters, the site owner, has prepared a "Scoping Paper" as the basis for redevelopment and new planning controls on the site.[ CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 18 August 2006 - No. 310]
- Brewery site revamp to include skyscraper
- A skyscraper of up to 110 metres is being planned for the Carlton United Brewery site in Broadway in inner Sydney. [ABC News Friday, August 18, 2006]
- Is he up for the fight?
- Anthony 'The Man' Mundine keeps everybody guessing. Report Joseph Sumegi & Alexandra Walker in the 16th August 2006 SydneyCentral Courier.
- Carlton United Brewery Public Meeting - 14th August 2006
- To the residents, business proprietors and workers in the vicinity of the Carlton United Brewery site. Carlton United Brewery Public Meeting Tuesday 15th August 6.30pm - 8.30pm, University of Technology Sydney, Room 2.4.29
- 3801 Limited calls for answers on its future now!
- 3801 Limited Chairman, Dr John Glastonbury has called for the half a million citizens of NSW who have enjoyed the iconic experience of locomotive 3801 to ask for answers from the Premier.
- Payola: a state-sanctioned business model
- HERE'S a tale of two cities. On August 23 the NSW Urban Taskforce will hold its annual Development Excellence Awards night. The next night the NSW Greens will hold their Bad Developer Awards, also known as the Toasters. Report by Michael Duffy Sydney Morning Herald August 12, 2006.
- 'The Mouth' Mundine to enter politics
- AFTER proving himself in the ring, boxer Anthony Mundine is picking a fight of a different kind - this time with New South Wales MP Frank Sartor reports Amy Fallon in The Daily Telegraph of August 11, 2006.
- Minister Sartor's Statement in Response to Community Rally
- Following is a response from Minister for Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor issued to the media on 11th August 2006 in response to the Protest to Keep The Block in Aboriginal Hands the previous night.
- Wages of shock is change
- A provocative Sydney performance art venue is shifting its space but not its attitude, writes Rosalie Higson in the Australian of 11 August 2006. ONE of the pioneers of Australian experimental dance, sound, video and out-there theatre is moving house. On August 20, Performance Space in Sydney closes its doors on busy Cleveland St, Surry Hills, before transferring to CarriageWorks, the new performing arts precinct at the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops in Redfern.
- From pugilism to politics: will Mundine will stand at the next election?
- The World Today - Friday, 11 August , 2006 12:42:00 Reporter: Conor Duffy Reports on Anthony Mundine and the Rally on the Block.
- Mundine yet to declare his political intentions
- Boxer Anthony Mundine is yet to declare whether he will run for the Sydney seat of Marrickville in next year's state election.
- Champion boxer considers politics
- FORMER world champion boxer Anthony Mundine says it is still too early to say whether he will contest next year's NSW election reports AAP on 11th August 2006.
- Boxer Mundine keen to move into politics
- After proving himself in the ring, boxer Anthony Mundine has another fight on his hands reports AAP and carried on the Age and Sydney Morning Herald web sites.
- Anthony Mundine joins protesters to fight for The Block - AHC Media Statement 09-08-2006
- Thousands of people, black and white, will unite to stop the NSW Government taking control of the Block at a historic protest tomorrow (Thursday August 10). Champion boxer Anthony Mundine will address the protest and is expected to make an announcement about entering politics to fight for The Block’s future.
