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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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- Hip Hop Heaven
- A Hip Hop Festival will be held in Sydney on March 27 and 28 2009 reports Nick Soon in the Blacktown Sun of 12 March 2009.
- Hill & Knowlton Named Marketing Agency of Record for National Indigenous Development Centre
- SYDNEY, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Hill & Knowlton Sydney (H&K) today was honoured to be named marketing agency of record for the National Indigenous Development Centre (NIDC). The NIDC, opening in Redfern later this year, will provide sporting, educational, arts/cultural and leadership development opportunities for thousands of Indigenous young people from across Australia reports Reuters on 11 march 2009.
- Opinion: Memories sacrificed on future’s altar
- From my youthful experiences, ‘heritage’ and ‘history’ are antiquated words. Old houses give me the creeps and I am at home in beige, open-plan compact living. Give me the high-rise life writes Angus Thompson in this opinion peice in City News of 11 march 2009.
- Ethical food still not cheap as chips
- Sydney’s newest fresh food markets are a running success but ‘ethically produced’ food remains out of reach for those who need it most reports Adam Black in City news of 11 March 2009.
- Foreshore Parks Languish
- FRUSTRATED city residents have called for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority's responsibilities to be passed to Sydney Council reports Robert Burton-Bradley and Kim Shaw in Central of 11 March 2009..
- RWA - ILC - YMCA Meeting Report - 17 February 2009
- [The statement below has been provided by the RWA to report on the progress of the Youth Services and the NIDC. The statement was issued as a clarification following the 4 March 09 Redfern Waterloo Issues Update article where Geoff and Lyn Turnbull, who produced the article on the ILC, were not aware that there had been a meeting with agencies over the NIDC and the role of the YMCA - REDWatch]
- What next for North Eveleigh?
- The Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s concept plan for the redevelopment of the presently deserted rail-yards at North Eveleigh has been given the tick of approval by the State Planning Minister Kristina Keneally. On January 30 Ms Keneally signed off on the plan with the hope that the 10.7-hectare site will be transformed from empty industrial shells into a new commercial precinct and 1,200 new homes with 12 per cent designated for affordable housing reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Darlington dudded, again
- A large part of the formerly gracious Victorian suburb of Darlington was first dudded in the post WWII expansion of Sydney University. A large part of it was razed – the town hall was demolished, the public school marooned on the campus, and only recently nicely landscaped writes Bruce Lay in this Opinion article in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Kristina Keneally on North Eveleigh.
- The following comments from Member for Heffron and Minister for Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally appeared in her advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Blaming Redfern
- Repeated references to Redfern in crime reports are encouraging perceptions about the level of crime in the suburb reports Brendon Wong in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Roller shutters blight streetscapes
- The problem of solid roller shutter doors on the business landscape of inner-city Sydney has been a “festering sore” for far too long, according to the Potts Point and Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Inner-city happiness
- In a recent report compiled by Professor of Psychology at Deakin University, Bob Cummins, it was stated that some of Australia’s most unhappy suburbs are right in our backyard. Newtown and Redfern, as well as St Peters and Surry Hills, were named in the gloomy group. The Australian Unity-Wellbeing Index Report also stated that our country cousins are happiest in communities of 40,000 people or less reports Nicholas McCallum & Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Have you heard? - The fast news with Trevor Davies – March 2009
- Trevor Davies has reported on a number of items of interest to Redfern Waterloo in his column in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Support for the Keeping Place
- Gordon and Elaine Syron and their collection of over 1300 paintings and thousands of photographs and artefacts have been given more time by the RWA to negotiate a new, hopefully permanent, home for the collection following a recent meeting with Minister Keneally reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- The National Apology – one year on
- February, Friday the 13th, the skies are dark with the threat of heavy rain as I ride down Eveleigh Street towards the Community Centre where the first anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations is being celebrated reports Peter Whitehead in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Swans star meets kids at Darlo School
- Michael O’Loughlin is one of the AFL’s great players and holds the Swans club record for the most games played. In recent times the Indigenous star has played as full forward. They say the trainers will only let him have a set number of kicks a week to try and extend his playing life as long as possible reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Sydney’s first Lebanese restaurant Wilsons of Pitt Street Redfern
- Wilson Mrouh and his brother Marcelle founded the first Lebanese restaurant in Sydney, on their arrival as immigrants, 51 years ago. At that time, they had to arrange for nearly all the ingredients they needed to be brought in by travellers from Lebanon, so novel was the Lebanese menu. On the wall of the restaurant now, you can see a page out of an old newspaper of 1967 on which is a write-up of the opening of the restaurant and a description of what was then regarded as its unusual food reports Dorothy McRae McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Journey towards a dream – Reader profile Pamela Neville
- Pamela Neville has lived in Redfern since 1994 and loves it. She was born in Parkes when it was the centre of a wheat belt, rather than the Elvis capital of the world, and left there at the age of four. Her father worked in a bank and the family moved home about every two years as he was transferred around the state. Pam remembers her newborn sister being carried in a shoe-box as they travelled to Garah, near the Queensland border. It was the rail head for wheat and sheep sales and there was no electricity or running water in the town – the power grid was turned on the day they left! She became used to a changing lifestyle in small country towns and still loves to go back and view the wide horizons and watch for shooting stars reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Vale – Peter Symon
- Newspaper editors rarely allow the words “kindness”, “patience” and “socialism” to coexist in one sentence. However, you’ll need to indulge us, as we join the Guardian in remembrance of the life and times of our Comrade, Peter Symon reports Nick Tesoriero in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Arranging Elderflowers – An interview with playwright Alana Valentine
- Alana Valentine is a Redfern playwright with previous success in telling the stories of the South Sydney Rabbitohs in Run, Rabbit, Run, and the residents of Parramatta Girls’ Home in Parramatta Girls reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
