http://www.redwatch.org.au 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. daily 1 2005-11-20T18:15:04Z http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/redfernps/060711ilc/080820smh A MAN accused of defrauding the NSW Fire Brigades of $1.5 million was, until Monday, a project manager on $43 million worth of Federal Government construction projects for Aborigines in Redfern reports Joel Gibson Indigenous affairs reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 20, 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-19T20:45:36Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/redfernps/060711ilc/080819smh CONSTRUCTION has begun on Australia's first national academy for young indigenous athletes in Redfern, two years after it was announced reports Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter in Sydney Morning Herald of August 19, 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-18T20:29:54Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp/blacksmith/080818rw Organisers estimate that at least two thousand people took the opportunity to visit the Open Day at Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops in the Australian Technology Park during Sunday. Visitors went on guided tours of the operational heritage Blacksmiths shop and showed their support for the ongoing operation of Wrought Artworks and ongoing Heritage operations on the site. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-20T05:21:22Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/redfernps/060711ilc/080818jm Work on a national centre for Indigenous youth is underway on the former Redfern Public School site following a $24 million funding boost from the Australian Government reports this media release from Jenny Macklin MP Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Frank Sartor MP Minister for Planning, Redfern Waterloo and the Arts of 18 August 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-18T23:58:02Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080813dt ON Sunday morning fewer than 100 people will gather in Redfern Town Hall to end South Sydney's proposal for a no-pokies leagues club reports Josh Massoud in the The Daily Telegraph of August 13, 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-13T10:11:22Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080813cen AN indigenous art collection valued in the millions could be lost after negotiations between its owners and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority broke down writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 13th August 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-13T10:10:11Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp/blacksmith/080810mc The following letter was written to the SMH but unpublished. Michael Clarke was involved in 2006 as the Chairman of the Engineering Heritage Committee in correspondence with the Minister over arrangements for Heritage preservation at the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-14T23:30:57Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/cub/amendcp/080808smhb THE character and culture of inner-city Chippendale is under threat, say residents, from a proposal by the developer of a giant urban renewal project at Broadway to increase the amount of floor space on the site by 10 per cent writes Wendy Frew Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 8, 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-08T01:36:16Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp/blacksmith/080808smha IN BAY Two of the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, a scene from another century unfolds writes Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 8, 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-08T01:37:32Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp/blacksmith/080808mw BLACKSMITHS in Eveleigh, Sydney, are campaigning against the State Government’s move to evict them from their workshop. For the past 17 years, Wrought Artworks has had free use of the furnace workshop in Bay Two of the Australian Technology Park. Using ancient blacksmith techniques, metal is melted in a furnace and banged into shape by a steam-powered hammer reports www.metalworker.com.au. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-09T06:51:22Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp/blacksmith/080808abc Is the state's valuable heritage being put under the hammer by a State Government more interested in forging relationships with developers? Asks Quentin Dempster on ABC’s Stateline NSW on 8th August 2008. The report from Reporter Nick Grimm is in the broadcast transcript below. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-09T06:56:34Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080806sshn Commander Luke Freudenstein, the present officer in charge of Redfern Police is not a total stranger to the South Sydney area having earlier served for four years in the Newtown command. After working as the Crime Manager in Manly and also in a wider regional area of police work, he spent two months in Kings Cross and decided that he definitely preferred the work relating to a local command. He has been appointed to the Redfern Command for six months, after which a more permanent decision will be made about his future writes Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-11T12:47:45Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080806sshm Frank Sartor’s plans to demolish some of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a site of world heritage significance, is heritage heresy: they will transform Redfern into “Redfern Heights”, and create a vanilla society writes Andrew Woodhouse in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-11T13:05:08Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080806sshl The Mercy Foundation which has been based in Waterloo for over a decade has been an advocate for many groups of people and has provided financial support for the implementation of projects covering a wide range of social justice initiatives reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-11T13:03:34Z News Item http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080806sshk With the Council elections just over a month away (September 13), our writers have been interviewing the candidates. We’ll have profiles again next issue writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. No publisher REDWatch 2008-08-11T13:01:35Z News Item