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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.
Me-Mel: Goat Island though Bennelong’s eyes - Media Release
Aboriginal training and cultural organisation, Tribal Warrior Association, will hold a day of cultural celebrations and festivities on Sydney Harbour’s Goat Island on Sunday 18 April says this Media Release from Tribal Warrior on 12 April 2010.
Stock Transfer, Is it the way forward for Social Housing ?
In 2009 HNSW began the process of transferring 3,000 of its properties to community housing providers across the state and hopes to finish the transfer this year. Now many HNSW residents wait with bated breath to find out if their tenancies will stay with the Government or will be transferred on to a Community Housing Provider. Many residents prefer the devil they know to a provider they know nothing about and a sense of insecurity is felt by many tenants who don’t know what to expect from the new system reports this article in RedWater News April 2010.
Heritage works begin at ATP - April 2010
In the following extract from ATP News of 7 April 2010, ATPPML advised details of the heritage plans for Innovation Plaza, Bays 1 & 2 and Heritage Lighting around the ATP.
The NCIE now open!
Many of us had already visited the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence before it was officially opened by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd recently. However, that took nothing away from the great day. After all the planning, building, preparing of the great facilities and training of its enthusiastic and capable staff, the formal opening was still a very special celebration reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
No uplifting news for Redfern
Redfern Railway Station still lacks a plan to make it disability friendly, despite the State Government’s pledge to spend $50 billion improving Sydney’s transport system. While every other major Sydney station from North Sydney to Sydenham is expected to be an Easy Access station by 2016, Redfern is still in the planning stages reports Flint Duxfield in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
University campus at North Eveleigh?
The University of Sydney’s campus expansion plans have been disrupted for more than two years by the State Government, which has failed to make a decision about the sale of an Eveleigh site reports Melanie Kembrey in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
RWA optimism
The recent opening of the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE), the new Redfern Health Centre and the one-year anniversary of the Eveleigh Farmers Market are three tangible examples of the good work being done to benefit Waterloo and Redfern, according to Redfern Waterloo Authority CEO, Roy Wakelin-King reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
Have you heard? - The fast news with Trevor Davies - April 2010
Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
Kristina Keneally on the NCIE
The following Advertisement from Kristina Keneally, State Member for Heffron dealt with the opening of the NCIE in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010
Tanya Plibersek on Closing the gap on Indigenous employment
The following Advertisement from Tanya Plibersek, Federal Member for Sydney dealt with Closing the gap on Indigenous employment in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010
Voice of refugee youth
South Sydney Community Aid is celebrating the receipt of a $50,000 grant that will benefit young African Muslim refugees reports Philip Wen in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
Uber cool, with affordable comfort
A talent explosion is occurring in what is becoming Sydney’s hippest neighbourhood for interior design – Redfern! Known for some time by the more price conscious retro furniture cognoscenti, first Regent and now Redfern streets are home to several of the trendiest shops in the city. Leading the way in affordability and style is A Pair of Chairs, owned by local resident, Kim Stewart reports the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
In praise of difference, decadence and diversity
Elaine Pelot Syron was born into photography. Her father, John Crews Pelot, was an American WWI documentary photographer, and her own passion was ignited during the 1970s with the genesis of Aboriginal legal, medical and land rights. “History was happening around me. I responded with objective images,” she says. Report by Andrew Woodhouse in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010
Androgyny de-certified?
Over the past month resident cartoonist for the SSH, known simply as Norrie, has had a unique and not sometimes unwanted experience. After becoming the first person in New South Wales to be registered as “Sex: Not Specified”, Norrie also became the first person to have such a non-distinction taken away reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
Hospital site – a step closer to affordable housing target
After years in limbo, the old South Sydney Hospital site will finally be put to good use. The City of Sydney Council has endorsed City West Housing (CWH) to build up to 150 affordable housing units on the site. This will be one step towards the Council reaching its target of 15 per cent affordable housing by 2030 reports Rebecca LeMay in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
Meet the Greens candidate for Sydney - Tony Hickey
Chippendale teacher and openly gay man, Tony Hickey, has won the Greens pre-selection vote to contest the seat of Sydney at the next federal election reports Melanie Kembrey in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
Wide Support for weekly welfare payments
Redfern resident, Matthew Panny, receives his disability support pension every two weeks. Mr Panny may soon receive payment every week if new legislation introduced by the Federal Government is passed reports Melanie Kembray in the South Sydney Herald of April 2010.
Off with his head: prince pledges to return warrior's skull
THE Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy was a ''pest to the colony'' who led the first war of resistance against British settlers before he was shot, decapitated and his head sent to England. But now the future king of England has made it his personal mission to ensure Pemulwuy's remains come home writes Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1 April 2010.
Cannabis: It’s Not Our Culture exhibition
An Indigenous art exhibition, to be held on Tuesday, March 30 at 11 am – 12.30 pm at CarriageWorks will launch the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre’s (NCPIC) Indigenous project, ‘Cannabis: It’s not our culture’. The project entails a dedicated website: http://www.notourculture.org.au, the one-day exhibition, and development of resources for Indigenous healthcare workers reports The Southern Courier on 31 March 2010.
Chicka Dixon funeral: State funeral for Aboriginal warrior
Aboriginal activist Charles “Chicka” Dixon’s state funeral today featured traditional Aboriginal body paint, the black power salute (made famous at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games) and a coffin draped in the Aboriginal flag and covered with messages from those left behind writes Raylene Bliss in the Southern Courier on 31 March 2010.
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