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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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- Comments on Proposed HAF Master Plan Community Engagement
- Housing NSW circulated a Draft Community Engagement Action Plan for the Redfern and Waterloo Masterplan looking for feedback in May. They received some feedback including comments from The Factory and REDWatch. Subsequently there has been a meeting with Housing and we are awaiting a revised draft. HNSW have asked that we not put their document up on the REDWatch website until it is finalised so we are unable to share it with you. What we can do to provide some transparency is to provide make our comments available which will provide some idea of the areas of concern to REDWatch and the Factory. These are provided below.
- Glebe Residents Protest Demolition of Public Housing
- The local residents’ action group "Hands off Glebe" held a protest on May 18 to stop the demolition of public housing in Cowper St, Glebe. The 15 buildings on the Cowper St site have the capacity to house 289 people but the former NSW Labor government decided to sell most of the land to private developers, with the remnant being earmarked for new public and so called affordable housing. The newly-elected Greens MP for Balmain, Jamie Parker, joined and addressed the protest. Workers on the site stopped work for the day in support reports Peter Boyle in Green Left Weekly.
- Sydney Uni Abercrombie Street Campus Plans
- Sydney University has made available its plans for the new Abercrombie Street Business School on their web site while waiting for the Department of Planning to place the documents on formal exhibitions. Darlington locals are encouraged to become familiar with the proposals as there is expected to be only 4 weeks of formal exhibition. The Exhibition is expected to start soon. Below are links to the documents as circulated by Sydney University on 13 May 2011 as well as some information regarding the Sports and Aquatic Expansion Project.
- Urgent support needed to save The Syron's Keeping Place Collection from seizure and auction - 23 May 2011 Deadline
- The Storage at Kennards for the Syron's Keeping Place Collection runs out on 23rd May 2011. If the Syron's can not find somewhere for the collection by then or pay for more storage the Keeping Place collection will be auctioned by Kennards to pay for the storage. An initial period of storage was paid for by the RWA as part of a settlement to move the collection out of the Wilson Street Parcel Shed. Below is a letter from Councillor Irene Doutney who is the spokesperson for the Keeping Place Committee.
- Groundswell coming to Redfern and Waterloo
- A coalition of Redfern and Waterloo non-government agencies has resolved to facilitate an on-going discussion and community empowerment process independent of government reports Michael Davis in City News on 12th May 2011.
- Suburbs go from No-go to Boom Towns
- THEY were once Sydney's crime capitals, ruled by drug lords and violence. Now the same dangerous suburbs have been named in a national report as the city's hot-property suburbs. Homes in "rough and ready" Maroubra, heroin-capital Cabramatta and no-go zone Redfern are now attracting top dollar reports Vikki Campion in The Daily Telegraph on 10 May, 2011.
- Talent breaks out at Weave, Redfern
- WEAVE Arts Centre will be launched at North Eveleigh on May 11 with an inaugural exhibition titled Breakout reports Aimee Scott in Central on 8 May 2011.
- New home for the homeless
- Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, has turned the first sod to ceremoniously begin construction of a new nursing home for homeless older people, in Sydney’s inner city suburb of Redfern reports Stephen Easton on Australian Aging Agenda on 3rd May 2011.
- Transforming the great southern land
- Redfern is on the brink of its biggest change in decades, writes Matthew Moore in the Sydney Morning Herald of 30 April 2011.
- Noisy garden shed at Redfern's ATP deemed "temporary''
- NEIGHBOURS of the Australian Technology Park temporary gardeners’ compound are ecstatic it will finally live up to its “temporary” label now that the application to extend its use for another five years has been withdrawn reports Central on 30 April 2011.
- RWA Email Update - 20 April 2011
- In This RWA Update - NEWS: Bush Tucker pioneer receives award / Domestic & family violence forum / Draft BEP 2 Thank You Barbeques / New chef at Yaama Dhiyaan / Art is a load of rubbish / Family connects with local heritage / Rabbitohs hop along to Easter Eveleigh Market - DEVELOPMENT NEWS - Public exhibition and interpretation of heritage artefacts, Bays 1 & 2 Locomotive Workshop, Australian Technology Park / Internal fit out and additional flues at the Biomedical Building, 1 Central Avenue, Australian Technology Park / Filming in the area bounded by Eveleigh, Vine and Louis Streets, Redfern - WHAT’S ON - Alexandria Community Garden – 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month / Eveleigh Farmers’ Market – every Saturday 8am to 1pm / Eveleigh Artisans’ Market – first Sunday of the month, 10am to 3pm
- Questions for New NSW Government
- REDWatch has set out a series of questions in has about NSW Government Policy as it relates to Redfern and Waterloo Issues. The list of questions below were part of an invitation to Premier Barry O'Farrell for himself or one of his relevant Ministers to attend a REDWatch meeting and brief locals about how his Government proposes to do to address a range of Redfern and Waterloo Issues.
- 'Mixed' estates found to break rather than make communities
- Ms Kenworthy's study - along with extensive research by Western Sydney academic Gabrielle Gwyther, published in the recent edition of the journal Urban Policy and Research - challenges 30 years of conventional wisdom. Over the past 10 to 15 years, NSW government policy has been to break up the estates writes Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 11 April 2011.
- Inner-city fights to save its villages
- This article in the Sydney Morning Herald of 11 April by Jonathan Chancellor covers the Ashmore estate at Erskineville where city and state planners disagree over the allowable density for its development. While this development is outside Redfern and Waterloo the extra traffic from such developments are likely to have an impact given the railway lines.
- RWA & SMDA register interest in working with Groundswell
- Following the announcement of Groundswell the RWA & SMDA CEO Roy Wakelin-KIng wrote to "register the RWA's and SMDA's interest in being actively engaged with this group". An extract from the email is provided below.
- REDWatch will Join Groundswell
- At its monthly meeting on 7 April 2011 REDWatch resolved to formally joins the Groundswell Agency Coalition. It was also resolved that REDWatch members and supporters provide whatever assistance they can to make the Groundswell residents discussion in Redfern and Waterloo successful.
- Draft Eveleigh Railway Workshops Interpretation Plan on Public Exhibition until 6 April 2011
- The RWA has placed on exhibition Draft Interpretation Plan and Implementation Strategy for the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops. The Plan has been prepared for the RWA's Redfern Waterloo Heritage Taskforce by 3D Projects in association with Artscape and Only Human.
- Join a Groundswell in Redfern and Waterloo - Residents
- This is the text of the initial Groundswell leaflet distributed on 6 April 2011 to residents and the community announcing Groundswell. A link to the PDF version is provided at the foot of this page.
- Be Part of a Groundswell - Agencies
- This is the text of the Groundswell leaflet distributed on 6 April 2011 to agencies announcing Groundswell and inviting their support of the Groundswell coalition. A link to the original PDF is provided below.
- Public Housing Sell-Off
- REDFERN-WATERLOO: The Redfern Waterloo Authority released its blueprint plan for the future of public housing land in Redfern and Waterloo. After several years in development, The Draft Built Environment Plan 2 was made available for public comment reports South Sydney Herald in April 2011.
