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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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- Pemulway project breakthrough
- A STAND-OFF over the future of Redferns The Block has been broken after negotiations have seen the Redfern Waterloo Authority pay a $68,750 Department of Planning processing fee for the Aboriginal Housing Companys Pemulway Project reports Robert Burton-Bradley and Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 10th September 2008.
- Kristina Keneally Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo
- Local Member for Heffron, Kristina Keneally MP has become both the Minister for Planning and the Minister for Redfern Waterloo in the cabinet announced today by Premier Nathan Rees who also becomes Minster for the Arts which is responsible for CarriageWorks. Local Member for Marrickville Carmel Tebbutt MP in addition to being Deputy Premier is also Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister for Commerce. The full Cabinet and portfolio list from the Media Release from the Premier's office is below:
- Plan to boost Aboriginal employment
- The city’s indigenous leaders have cautiously welcomed the Federal Government’s plan to use its $76 billion nation-building infrastructure program to tackle Aboriginal unemployment writes Patrick Billings in City News on 7th September 2008.
- RWA Pays AHC Fee for Pemulwuy Project Assessment
- Michael Mundine Senior, CEO of the Aboriginal Housing Company received a call from Meredith Burgmann this morning (Saturday September 6th 2008) advising that the Redfern Waterloo Authority has paid the $68,750 fee for the assessment and exhibition of the AHC's Pemulwuy project. No conditions have been attached by the RWA on the AHC concerning the payment.
- Wrought Artworks Statement on Lease with RWA/ATP
- With the strong active support from heritage bodies,community, former workers, unions, councilors, and local aboriginals along with the "Keep the Tradition" media- campaign, which culminated in a very successful Openday at the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop Blacksmithing Bays, Wrought Artworks were offered a license agreement from RWA.
- Sorry state of public housing – What’s going on?
- It’s been one year since NSW Minister for Housing Matt Brown witnessed the state of public housing in the Redfern/Waterloo area, and nothing has changed reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Sartor visits North Eveleigh
- On August 20, Planning Minister Frank Sartor made a walk around the North Eveleigh site with representatives from the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, the Department of Planning, consultants and a selection of local residents who have made objections to the North Eveleigh Concept Plan. This followed a project presentation to the Minister by the RWA and its consultants, and discussion on the issues of concern reports Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Blacksmithing sparks community interest
- “Frank Sartor is a destroyer of history. If this goes, who else do we blame?” asked Colin Fenn, one of the estimated 2,000 people who attended the Open Day of Wrought Artworks and the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop on Sunday August 17, located in Bays 1 and 2 of the Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh. Guided tours were provided of the operational heritage blacksmiths’ shop, and a public meeting was held at midday to call for the immediate withdrawal of the Notice to Quit and Threat of Eviction that has been served to Wrought Artworks reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Burgmann on the Block
- Dr Meredith Burgmann, the Labor Party’s mayoral candidate, met with Redfern residents and community leaders on Saturday August 23 to hear their concerns, and to outline her own vision for the area reports Alex Mackenzie in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- “Access is a right, not a privilege”
- The upgrade of Redfern station is the most central aspect of the RWA's plans for the social and economic redevelopment of the Redfern-Waterloo area reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Farewell Leanne
- It was like a teary episode of the sit-com Cheers – with a South Sydney twist. After nine years as owner and manager of Appetite Café in Regent Street, Redfern, Leanne Fraser was saying goodbye. The café was crowded with regulars – enjoying the after-hours ambience, reminiscing, getting to know each other (better). And then Leanne stepped up on a chair to address us reports the Editorial in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008
- On this bus the classical music’s a bonus
- Some good news on buses has emerged out of the widespread distress at the proposed changes to the 311 route. A local Labor delegation led by Jo Holder, ALP candidate for the City of Sydney Council, met with Sydney Buses General Manager of Planning, Roger Wilson, on Friday August 8, and secured his undertaking that “The Elizabeth Bay loop will stay and it is highly likely the Central Railway loop stays.” But while the State Transit Authority maintains a schedule that falls to two buses an hour in off-peak periods, a little-known local bus service is doing its bit to help reports Peter Whitehead in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Old pub faces new bar
- Cleveland Street’s Britannia Hotel has a colourful history. It is the pub in which corrupt former cop Roger Rogerson drank a beer before shooting to death Sydney underworld figure and heroin dealer, Warren Lanfranchi, in nearby Dangar Place in 1981 reports Vanessa Watson in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Residents’ concerns passed over
- Chippendale residents in a long-running fight to resolve the safety problem of trying to cross City Road have accused the Lord Mayor of arrogance and treachery reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Yiu Ming Temple still in trouble
- The South Sydney Herald has reported a number of times over the past three years on the problems facing the Yiu Ming Temple on Botany Road. In April of this year, Ben Falkenmire presented a calendar of events.
- Intervention into the pride and integrity of Aboriginal people
- On Wednesday August 13 over 100 people attended the first Australian screening at the Teachers’ Federation Auditorium, Surry Hills, of This Is Our Country Too. The documentary, by Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr, includes interviews with many people directly affected by the Northern Territory Intervention. Viewers saw a different Australia – not the rich gold-medal-raking nation that most are currently watching on TV. The movie was presented by the Stop The Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- CoS Council 2008 Candidate profiles
- In addition to interviews with Lord Mayoral candidates, the South Sydney Herald of August 2008 presented responses from the following candidates for Council. Questions by Lyn Turnbull.
- Clover Moore – Independent - Mayoral Candidate
- Dorothy McRae-McMahon reports on Clover Moore in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Telling candidates apart
- City of Sydney elections are nearing, and a plethora of candidates is jostling to overthrow incumbent Lord Mayor Clover Moore reports Carissa Simons in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Singing in the Spring - The Sydney A Cappella Festival 2008
- The Sydney A Cappella Association folded in 2002, and there hasn’t been a festival of a cappella (unaccompanied) singing since then. This year one very enthusiastic choir is hoping to inject new energy into the local scene reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
