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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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- The future and the past at Souths Leagues
- Where are they now? ‘N Grade’ Grand Final, Redfern Oval, 1976. Jimmy Monta (La Perouse) and Brad Downes (Mascot Juniors) holding the ‘N Grade’ trophy in this photo from South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club. Mascot Juniors won the grand final that year reports the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Tenants left in the dark
- In the light of Housing NSW’s recent commitment to address the maintenance backlog for public housing properties in NSW, the SSH conducted its own inspection of Waterloo’s Solander building to determine the current condition of the public housing estate reports Vanessa Watson in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Questions to the Housing NSW Minister
- The NSW Minister for Housing, David Borger, recently granted the SSH an interview. This followed on from recent SSH articles seeking accountability from Housing NSW around the manner in which it administers its properties reports in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Notre Dame’s expansion plans
- It seems as if everyone wants a piece of Chippendale at the moment and the historic suburb’s residents are worried that Notre Dame University is being greedy reports Pamela Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Café owners stung by new Council fees
- Café and restaurant owners in South Sydney are feeling disgruntled about the introduction of new food administration fees by the City of Sydney Council. The Council has announced an annual fee of $240 on top of the pre-existing $85 fee for health inspections reports Kate Lamb & Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Sustaining business in Redfern
- Hopes are high for a new centre for business sustainability which has just been unveiled in Redfern reports Lisa Moon in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Community aid, thanks to volunteers
- Contributing skills, giving assistance and sharing experiences among diversity are what makes a neighbourhood a community reports Tara Clifford in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Coloured Digger Project thanks Damien Minton Gallery
- On November 12, the Damien Minton Gallery in Redfern presented a cheque for $4,000 to the Coloured Digger Project Steering Committee reports the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Something about homeless people that makes some people feel uncomfortable
- The Central Courier reported last month that residents of the St Margaret’s Village apartments, opposite Edward Eagar Lodge, are considering hiring extra security guards because of antisocial behaviour caused by alcohol. Locals, the Courier says, have complained about the large number of homeless people hanging around outside the Lodge. They blame the homeless for disturbances rather than the crowds of people who flock to the late-night premises which serve alcohol on Oxford Street. Homeless people are easier to blame reports Trevor Davies in The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Do we need an International Year of the Disabled 2010?
- Some Fast News readers may be old enough to remember the International Year of the Disabled, way back in 1981 reports Trevor Davies in The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- “One placard in a picket line of urban Indigenous activism”
- Redfern artist, Adam Hill, has been creating storms of controversy in his latest exhibition held in Melbourne. Entitled, This is Why We Don’t Stand for the National Anthem, the show features a provocative image of an Aboriginal boy kneeling before a white priest with cruciform phallus reports Kate Lamb in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Works on film, online - Artist Profile: Curious Works
- Shakthi Sivanathan is the creator of Curious Works, an independent education and technology arts program that collaborates with communities using digital media and the arts. The programs offer communities ways of sharing and connecting with other people, as they present the projects online through the medium of film reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Studio for artists and passers-by
- Shopfront Studio is located at 152 Redfern Street. The shopfront is a studio/gallery space where local artists can create and display their art. People passing by get to witness the creative process of the artists at work reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Bust or boom, businesses adapt
- The sleek designs of Darlington-based Interprojects were a trait that placed them a cut above other design and construction companies in Sydney. However, their elegant designs were not innovative enough to protect them from the financial woes that are facing everyone else, as the company went into receivership in October this year. All but three of its staff have been let go reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Leasing ATP – Heritage Lost?
- In its recent mini-budget, the NSW Government announced its plans to privatise the Australian Technology Park (ATP) – 13.9 hectares of industrial space within cooee of the city centre reports Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Ban on bill posters an “attack on free speech”
- The City of Sydney has banned bill posters from the inner city. Offending organisations will now face fines of up to $1,500 per poster, and individuals charged $750 for putting up posters. Commercial, political and community organisations will be targeted, as Sydney City Council promises to follow through with prosecuting illegal postering under the NSW Protection of the Environment Operations Act. Greens Councillors, Irene Doutney and Chris Harris, have expressed their disappointment, claiming the Council's new campaign is a “gross attack on freedom of speech” reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Moore's donor vote broke council code
- THE Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, has denied she acted inappropriately after apparently breaching the council's code of conduct by participating in a decision to buy a property from her largest individual political donor reports Malcolm Knox in the Sydney Morning herald of 1 December 2008.
- RailCorp: Large Erecting Shop retained for continuing rail heritage purposes
- In the extract below RailCorp CEO provides one person who wrote to the Minister for transport about the Large Erecting Shop with some encouraging news that “RailCorp's plan for the Large Erecting Shop is consistent with the Friends of Eveleigh proposal that the workshop be retained for continuing rail heritage purposes”. The letter was dated 1 December 2008.
- Early resignition from RWA CEO
- Redfern-Waterloo Authority CEO Robert Domm has resigned from his role with the government appointed body almost a year earlier than anticipated reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on line on 1 December 2008.
- Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales - Report Tabled
- The Chair of the Social Issues Committee, the Hon Ian West MLC, today tabled the Committee’s Final Report of its 18-month inquiry into overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales reports this media release from the Hon Ian West MLC on 27 November 2008.
