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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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- Ravens on the run!
- Greetings and howdy doo! Achtung! Atencion! Hear this! We need supporters! The Sydney Half Marathon is the aim. And Ravens is the name reports Adrian Spry in the South Sydney Herald of April 2009…
- Long journey home from Newport to Redfern on a Saturday
- A few weeks ago I bravely ventured up the Northern Beaches to a family function at the Newport Hotel on a Saturday night. I came back by bus at about 9pm reports Trevor Davies as part of The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of April 2009.
- Opening windows on pain
- Nikki Brown, the Fundraising Manager for the Windows on Pain campaign gives us the background to this moving and powerful exhibition reports the South Sydney Herald of April 2009.
- Government grant for city upgrades
- South Sydney childcare centres, town halls and community centres are soon to benefit from a $660,000 Federal Government grant to upgrade energy and water facilities across Sydney reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of April 2009.
- Notre Dame – ever expanding
- The Notre Dame University has lodged a Development Application (DA) for Pioneer House on Broadway (cnr Buckland Street), to house 480 students, opening next year reports John August in the South Sydney Herald of April 2009.
- Rovers move to Erskineville Oval
- After 60 years the Alexandria Rovers Football Club has made the move to Erskineville Oval from Alexandria Park. It now allows the club to train where we play reports Perry Johnstone in the South Sydney Herald of April 2009.
- Clarification by CoS on Future of Community Safety Plans in Redfern Waterloo
- REDWatch has raised concerns about the failure of the CoS to impliment the recomendation from the Evaluation of the Redfern Waterloo Community Safety Plan which calls for Council and the community "to decide what needs to be done from now on”. The Issue was raised at the March 2009 Redfern Waterloo Community Forum. The response below was received from the CoS in response to follow up correspondence to CoS CEO and Deputy Lord Mayor Marcelle Hoff. REDWatch continues to seek discussion between Council and the community about a Redfern Waterloo specific follow up to the Redfern Waterloo Community Safety Plan which Council now considers completed.
- Surry Hills Festival April 18: Bring your bike
- Wedged between two housing towers in a car park in Phillip Street, Waterloo is Cycle Recycle, a-do-it-yourself bike maintenance club where people drop in to repair and rebuild their bikes from scratch reports Kim Shaw in Central on 7 April 2009.
- Redfern program helps Indigenous youths get ahead
- For many young people all it takes is the right opportunity to get their career and their life back on track Koori Job Ready is a program set up in inner city Sydney to train young Indigenous people to work in the construction industry reports Michael Edwards for ABC’s AM on 4 April 2009.
- Cleveland Street a "deathtrap" for pedestrians and cyclists: Locals
- Cleveland Street is a death trap for cyclists and pedestrians and Erskineville Road is not much better, locals told Sydney Council at a community meeting on Wednesday reports Kim Shaw for Central on 3 April 2009.
- Dedicated to their craft.
- In a society where mass consumerism is the norm, Catherine McCormack meets four people whose livelihoods are based on craft and Tradition in VirginBlue’s April 2009 Voyeur. [Below we have extracted the portion of the article dealing with Eveleigh Blacksmith Guido Gouverneur.]
- Lucky Dip Kids Workshops - Saturdays at CarriageWorks
- LUCKY DIP WORKSHOPS is a new series of fun, creative workshops by CARRIAGEWORKS, Sydney’s home for contemporary arts and culture. Each Saturday, the activity will be a surprise ‘lucky dip’ – a different arts-based workshop each week that kids 3+ and their parents can take part in for just $5 per person says this media release from CarriageWorks on 1 April 2009.
- Block-aid
- Sydney's inner-city suburb of Redfern has had its fair share of negative media: not least of all about riots, drugs and violence. But the community is fed up with its own problems and is taking them into its own hands reports SBS’s Living Black on 30 March 2009.
- Local pubs go under the hammer
- IT HAS been a tough time for pubs. Bankers have been pulling the plug on many hotels [including Redfern’s Woolpack] and forcing distressed sales to reap back some of the cash owed reports Carolyn Cummins in the Sydney morning Herald of 28th March 2009.
- New Alcohol-Free Zones Proposed for Sydney
- The City of Sydney is to consider 73 proposals for Alcohol Free Zones (AFZ) from police and local residents across Sydney reports Annette Shailer in The Shout on 27th March 2009.
- WAYS Youth Employment Defunded
- The following statement has been circulated by Russell King CEO of ways regarding the defunding of their Youth Employment Programme covering Redfern Waterloo on 24 March 2009/
- $130M bailout helps bandage Housing’s eyesores
- “The ibis restaurant” – a corroded, road-dwelling dumpster where urban pests constantly feast, is just one of the eyesores of the Redfern-Waterloo public housing precinct reports Angus Thompson in City News on 19th March 2009.
- Darlington - Charles Kernan Reserve Plans & Community Garden Consultation - April 2009
- A small community garden is proposed within the park. Council is now seeking input from interested persons as to how this space will be developed and managed to best serve the community. A meeting will be organised for residents interested in the proposed community garden, and if you would like to be involved in the design and development of a community garden please contact Council's Community Garden Coordinator, Annie Walker. The details of the proposal are below:
- Carriage Works Market.
- In the issue of City News on 12 March, there was an article about the Eveleigh Market, which incorrectly named the market as the ‘Carriage Works Market’ writes Stephanie Zappala in this letter to City News.
- Planning outcries fall deaf on property giant’s ears
- Chippendale residents yelled at, and argued with, developers of the former Carlton United Brewery site at a community meeting last Wednesday, but Frasers Property maintain it was a success reports Alexandra Beech in City news on 12 March 2009.
