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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.
- Sartor: Keneally discussed plan for North Eveleigh with Sydney Uni
- "Keneally devised a plan to 'compensate' Sydney University for its `loss' of the Callan Park opportunity as Planning minister, by offering it the North Eveleigh site in Redfern, which had been prepared for tender." according to Frank Sartor in his 2011 book "The Fog on the Hill - How NSW Labor Lost its Way". The ex-Minister for Redfern Waterloo's comments about North Eveleigh when discussing "The Callan Park Mess" (pp118-123) can be found in the extract below:
- RWA Email Update - 29 August 2011
- In this RWA Email Update Update: NEWS - Redfern Gets a Warm Welcome / Shop Front Improvement Program / Master Planning Expo / Redfern RSL Works Continue / Eveleigh Market Wins Delicious Award / Souths Push For the Finals / NCIE Update / Call for Heritage Volunteers / Underbelly Transforms The Block - DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS - Interpretative and exhibition fit out of Part of Bays 1 & 2 of the Locomotive Workshop, Australian Technology Park (ATP) / New wayfinding signage at ATP / Modification to the use of Track 8 and Track 12 within the Carriage Workshops, North Eveleigh / New standby generator and building works to the Transport Management Centre, ATP - WHAT’S ON
- HNSW Master Planning Update - 28 Aug 2011
- The statement below appeared in an Update of the Redfern Waterloo page on HNSW's website on 28 August 2011. In included the posting of the Housing NSW Base Line Study for Redfern and Waterloo. HNSW has advised that they are limited in what they can post on this site hence REDWatch is posting electronic copies of Preliminary master Plan documents to ensure they are publicly available.
- What to Expect in the Master Plan
- REDWatch has prepared the following summary of what to expect in the Master Plan from the HNSW Planning Pyramid, the What goes into a Preliminary master Plan, the Community Engagement Schedule, references in the BEP2 to the Master Plan and relevant sections in the SMDA precinct brief for Redfern and Waterloo. The document aims to show what is expected to be in the Planning Controls, the Preliminary master Plan and the Final Master Plan. It also seeks to show the SMDA's ongoing interest through the precinct brief. We will update this list as more information becomes available.
- Plibersek questions Redfern housing authorities
- Federal MP Tanya Plibersek criticised the state of housing developments in the Redfern Waterloo area at a REDwatch meeting last week reports Christian Meagher in City News on 11 August 2011. [We have also included the comments made on the City News website to date]
- RWA Email Update 25 July 2011
- In this Update: NEWS : Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP 2) Update - Stakeholder Engagement Report - Community Facilities Report - Future community engagement / Barani Book launch – City of Sydney / Media attention for The Block / NAIDOC Week success / Redfern brand continues to gain momentum / DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS: Modification to temporary car parking in the Australian Technology Park WHAT’S ON: 1 August – Koori Job Ready Course 3 begins / 3 August - Redfern and Waterloo Community Learning and Research Group / 4 August –REDWatch meeting with Tanya Plibersek MP / 20 August – Saturday in Design / 20 August - Redfern Waterloo Urban Renewal Study and Housing NSW Master Plan EXPO / Eveleigh Farmers’ Market – every Saturday 8am to 1pm / Eveleigh Artisans’ Market – first Sunday of the month, 10am to 3pm / Alexandria Community Garden – 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month
- RWA Releases BEP2 Stakeholder Engagement Report
- The Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) has released the Stakeholder Engagement Report for the Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP 2). The report prepared by Mediate Today, the RWA response and a media release have been placed on the RWA website on 22 July 2011. Below you will find a link to the documents. We have reproduced the text of the media release and the RWA response in text form below.
- Future of major Aboriginal Art collection in danger
- Aboriginal activists and artists gathered at Chapel by the Sea last Saturday to save one of Australia’s major Aboriginal art collections. The future of Gordon Syron’s famous collection is in danger of being split up and scattered unless enough money and space can be found to maintain it reports Nicholas Jordan in Bondi View of 14 July 2011.
- RailCorp to Work on North Eveleigh Sub Stations and Ivery's Lane Retaining Wall
- On 9 May 2011 RailCorp wrote to occupiers of Holdsworth Street regarding the Railcorp “North Eveleigh Substation Relocation Project”. As part of this project RailCorp plan to replace the retaining wall on the Eastern Side of Iverys lane which will involve the removal of all existing vegetation. The potential loss of this vegetation and the bird habitat associated with it is of concern to some residents as I would expect is the possible loss of some insulation from the planned redevelopment which looks like it will proceed in some form.
- Renewal of Social Housing in Redfern- Waterloo BEP2 - Article in New Planner
- This article was published in the Planning Institute of NSW's journal New Planner June 2011. Our attention was drawn to this article at the presentation by City of Sydney on July 7 2011 because of its comments on the effectiveness of the BEP2 consultation which is contested between local agencies and Government. No reports have been released by either HNSW or RWA about the consultation and what they heard the community say. Agencies and community groups such as REDWatch raised concerns about the consultation in their submissions. It was concerns about the quality of the consultation that directly lead to the formation of the Groundswell Coalition.
- Scribe of Redfern driven by politics - Trevor Davies, 1956-2011 - SHM Obituary
- This Sydney Morning Herald Obituary to Trevor Davies written by Malcolm Brown and was published on Saturday 9 July 2011. It was fitting that this was published as his beloved Labor party held its NSW State Conference to talk about returning to the grass roots Trevor championed. It was also fitting for someone who championed local independent media that the front page of the SMH on that day read "Murdoch under siege". To clarify one inaccuracy on the SMH obituary, Trevor was one of the founders of REDWatch which is a residents group and not a journal.
- Links, Places for Memories & Remembering Trevor Davies
- Here we will collect and update links to other material about Trevor Davies. If you know of one which is not here please let us know. We have also provided information about how you can deposit your stories and Remember Trevor.
- Sydney Uni Abercrombie Street Update - 7 July 2011
- Sydney University Director of Campus Infrastructure and Services, Colin Rockliff, issued the following update on Sydney University revising their plans for the Abercrombie Street campus on 7 July 2011. The next meeting to discuss these plans between the University and Residents is 9am 19th July at the University Services building.
- Frasers Property Australia announces joint venture at Central Park
- Sekisui House Australia Holdings Pty Limited and Frasers Property Australia enter into joint venture agreements to jointly develop $2billion Central Park development reports this media release from the parties on 7 July 2011.
- Loved leader defended dispossessed
- Sister Marnie Kennedy was a nun and an educator, counsellor, activist, spiritual leader and defender of the rights of the dispossessed and marginalised. She was greatly valued and dearly loved for her warmth, grace, wisdom, generosity of spirit and capacity for love reports this obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1 July 2011.
- NCIE wins Urban Design Award
- The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence at inner city Redfern by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer was awarded the top honour for recent urban design projects, the Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design, as well as a commendation for public architecture.
- Yaama Dhiyaan in Slow Food
- They’re preparing kangaroo pies in the sunny kitchen at Yaama Dhiyaan Hospitality Training College when I first visit Aunty Beryl Van Oploo. It’s a warm November day and spring is in full swing in Sydney, Australia. Outside in the street, the jacaranda trees are flaunting their opulent lilac blossoms and raucous cockatoos screech overhead. Aunty Beryl’s training college for young Indigenous women and men is situated in a luminous, glass-walled industrial building beside the recently converted train carriage works in the Redfern sector of the city. Next to it is the warehouse that now hosts the weekly Eveleigh farmer’s market, one of Sydney’s most vibrant community markets. The carriage works have been turned into an arts centre, with a stylish café and theatre reports Slow Food.
- Obituary for Trevor Davies 1956-2011 - South Sydney Herald
- This obituary for Trevor Davies May 25 1956 - June 14 2011 was written by Susan Leith-Miller (Trevor’s sister) and Dorothy McRae-McMahon. It was based on addresses from the funeral and published in the South Sydney Herald of July 2011 and reproduced in Insights the journal of the Uniting Church in NSW.
- Residents fear uni plan will gobble up suburb
- RESIDENTS of Darlington are feeling squeezed as the University of Sydney plans to build a massive school and student accommodation on Abercrombie Street reports Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald of June 25 2011.
- RWA Clarification on RWIU of 22 June 2011
- Following Geoff and Lyn Turnbull's Redfern Waterloo Issues Update of 22 June 2011, the RWA provided the following clarifications regarding North Eveleigh, BEP2 Consultation Process and the Redfern Waterloo Transport Study.
