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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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- Uni music will disturb peace, say Darlo locals
- A recent Development Application to allow Union Square and parts of levels one and two of the Jane Foss Russel Building on City Road to become a place of entertainment throughout the week and on weekends is under review by Sydney City Council. Public exhibition ceased in July this year, but neighbours of Sydney University remain adamant that their voices be heard before they are drowned out by live music and other student activities reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of September 2009.
- “We are one!” - Waterloo Recycling Workshop
- Diana Bateup collects items of furniture from streets in the South Sydney area – tables, stereo cabinets, chairs. Russell Walker works with nails, glue and paint to repair and restore furniture that is then made available for sale at very reasonable prices each Friday from 9.00am to 12pm in the lower car park of the Turanga high-rise in Phillip Street (across the road from the Salvation Army). Diana and Russell are two of the many volunteers involved with the Waterloo Recycling Workshop (WRW). On August 14 the WRW celebrated its first year in business at the Phillip Street location reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of September 2009.
- The Fast News - Compiled by Trevor Davies
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of September 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
- Respect for our elders
- Community groups in Waterloo invite all to the inaugural Older and Wiser Festival, celebrating age and diversity within Redfern and Waterloo. A program of multicultural activities will be presented. Various groups will share their heritage and stories, in celebration of older people’s contributions to community life reports the South Sydney Herald of September 2009.
- Community consultation, the State Government way
- I saw an advertisement for a State Government Community Cabinet in the local paper and rang the number. I was given a 15-minute timeslot for a one-on-one meeting with the Minister of my choice. I turned up at the appointed time. I located the person that I had spoken to on the phone and had my name checked on the list. So far, so good reports Ross Smith in the South Sydney Herald of September 2009.
- Big heart for The Big Issue
- It is a sun-drenched Wednesday morning and the grounds of Sydney University are flooded with students, spilling en masse out of lecture theatres and into the cluttered streetscape. In the midst of the bustle, sitting patiently beside a small trolley packed with glossy printed paper, is a man clad in a floppy wide-brim hat and bright yellow vest reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of September 2009.
- Not an experience easily described
- Young Sydney artist, Hayley Megan French, presents a series of paintings investigating the material, compositional and conceptual possibilities of Contemporary Abstract painting reports Eve Gibson and Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of September 2009.
- Hopes for 100,000 jobs on new indigenous site
- AUSTRALIA's first indigenous jobs website will be launched by the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce on Monday reports Erik Jensen in the Sydney Morning Herald of 29 August 2009.
- Homelessness Count Reveals Need
- The City's latest homelessness Street Count reveals the dramatic affect of the global financial crisis on some Sydneysiders. The Count shows 12.7 per cent more people sleeping rough on Sydney's streets this winter, compared with August 2008 reports CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 28 August 2009 - No. 462.
- Support for Redfern & Darlington Business Precinct
- New "Business Precinct Studies" for Redfern and Newtown will guide our work to strengthen the local retail hubs, with a new Council officer being employed to help us do the needed work with local communities, including local business associations, police and other government authorities reports CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 28 August 2009 - No. 462.
- Residents face eviction to house homeless
- It reads almost like a Yes, Minister script – the Department of Housing evicting its own tenants, in order to build a facility for…homeless people. Yet remarkably, the evidence is there in black and white, in the form of ‘relocation’ notices distributed to the residents of the Alexandra Terraces in Camperdown reports Shant Fabricatorian in the City news of 27 August 2009.
- On your bike for Factory seconds
- Waterloo’s Factory Community Centre is taking sustainable living to the next level, giving old and ruined bicycles a second chance in their Cycle Re-Cycle Workshop reports Angus Thompson in City news on 27 August 2009.
- Supermarkets – the new urban battleground
- It’s raining supermarkets in Sydney, it seems, and the storm is provoking contrasting reactions from residents while presenting a complex planning problem to Council and the State Government reports Michael Gormly in City news of 27 August 2009.
- Factory Community Centre Supports Aldi for Waterloo
- In the letter below to Council on 26 August 2009 the Factory Community Centre came out in support of a Development Application incorporating an Aldi Supermarket in Waterloo (City of Sydney Council DA D/2009/633). The Factory Submission reads:
- Redfern’s Great Depression
- Redfern is experiencing its own Great Depression with 65 shops vacant and economic activity as slow as it was in the 1930s, according to a City of Sydney Council business precinct study reports Kim Shaw in Central on 26 August 2009.
- ABC Speaking Out - Heidi Norman on "The Black Heart of Redfern: Economic development and Aboriginal people in 20th Century Redfern"
- The first interview Rhianna Patrick conducted on ABC's Speaking Out of 23 August 2009 was with Heidi Norman about Redfern. [We have edited the ABC website description below to only include the Redfern material and have provided a link to the large MP3 download of the entire programme].
- Google lets creative types play in their Sandbox
- Media and advertising types were invited to the Carraigeworks in Eveleigh for Google Creative Sandbox 09. The first Creative Sandbox to be held outside of the United States, the event was designed to showcase all the newest developments to the Google product range which can often fly under the radar reports Willem Reyners Tay at www.digital-media.net.au on 21 August 2009 .
- Councils battle spread of new supermarkets
- SUPERMARKET proposals are fast becoming Sydney's new urban development battlegrounds, as major grocery chains clash with councils and residents over large stores proposed for their suburbs reports Paul Bibby Urban Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 August 2009.
- Redfern to reinvent itself
- Redfern’s major players are putting their heads together to resuscitate Redfern’s business precinct, starting with a slap of paint on the dreary shutters that line the suburb’s main street reports Angus Thompson in City News of 20 August 2009.
- Rail history at Central Station
- Central station will offer steam train rides this weekend on the historic 3526 and 3642 locomotives, the pride of the NSW railways in the 1920s and 30s reports Kim Shaw in Central on 19 August 2009.
