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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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- Do you live in a crime hotspot?
- Have you had your car stolen in Pyrmont or been the victim of robbery somewhere around Central Station? Figures contained in the City Council’s Draft Glebe Community Safety Plan show that certain parts of the inner city are more prone to specific types of crime than others reports Michael Gormley in City News of 11 February 2009.
- Black Stars in a First for the Block
- REDFERN is preparing for a brawl this week when the Indigenous Boxing Academy hosts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boxers including former Rabbitoh Joe Williams reports Angus Street in the central of 11 February 2009.
- Night of the Black Stars rocks the Block
- The ‘House Full’ sign went up at the Bigtop tent on Black Friday night as Aboriginal Boxing, basketball and culture made a triumphant return to the Aboriginal heartland of Redfern with the first ‘Night of the Black Stars’ reports Michael Gormley in City News of 19 February 2009.
- Souths return to Redfern Oval
- RUSSELL Crowe remembers what the old Redfern Oval used to look like. But he specifically remembers its sound reports Andrew Webster on 9 February 2009 in the Daily Telegraph.
- Notre Dame University Misleads Community Over Its Expansion
- In their 7 Fenruary 2009 Chippendale News the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups report on Notre Dame University expansion plans and a key DA just ending exhibition.
- Builders oust bankers in Australia's posh suburbs, while blue-collar areas move upmarket
- THE social structures of some of Australia’s wealthiest suburbs could deteriorate as quickly as their house prices, while "underdog" locales become increasingly gentrified reports Mark Schliebs on NEWS.com.au on 6 February 2009.
- National Indigenous Development Centre Update - Feb 2009
- This update was produced by the ILC and Tyford Consulting in February 2009 for the National Indigenous Development Centre (NIDC) and the YMCA's role in the NIDC.
- Roy Wakelin-King Appointed New CEO of Redfern-Waterloo Authority
- The Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Kristina Keneally, today announced the appointment of Mr Roy Wakelin-King as the new CEO of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports this Ministerial media statement of 5 February 2009.
- Gordon Syron To Thank SBS & Promote Keeping Place
- Please join us in true spirit on Thursday, the 12th of February, where Uncle Gordon Syron, an Elder from the Worimi and Biripi Nations is congratulating SBS on the documentary series "First Australians" by donating a painting. This painting is similar to the painting that saw Syron win the "COFA Professional 2008 NSW Parliamentary Prize for Indigenous Art" reads this media release from the Keeping Place Committee.
- A question of access
- Every day, Arne Hanna of Redfern, a muso by trade who’s been in a wheelchair for 21 years, negotiates the same route in order to head out into the community to enjoy a cup of coffee at his local café reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- SSH Fast News February 2009
- Trevor Davies in The Fast News in South Sydney Herald of February 2009 covers a number of Redfern Waterloo Stories.
- Community decay, bulldozers and real estate agents – the NSW State Plan?
- The recent events at Rosemeadow are another link in a long chain of negative outcomes for Housing NSW tenant communities across the state. The history goes back to the era of the Green Bans in inner Sydney of the 1970s when the tenants sought assistance to protect their communities and housing from the assaults being made on them by the government through its agent, then known as the Housing Commission. The induced community and property destruction was then cited as the justification to sell real estate to generate income for the government reports Ross Smith in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Good turnout for RWA Christmas Market
- The RWA Christmas Market was well supported with many people turning out to take a look and buy in the lead up to Christmas. The RWA reported receiving much good feedback. Most people seemed to be walking to the site from around the area or from the station although local residents say that the area was parked out and that many were walking from cars parked around the area. Locals also say there were problems at the entrance to North Eveleigh as people tried to enter the park. The market seemed to have a big impact on the Darlington shops with café use and paper sales well down and little new passing trade reports Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Sydney’s abandonment of artists may lead to artists’ abandonment of Sydney
- Sydney is not a city that shies away from the art world. It hosts the Biennale and the Sydney Festival, two events that bring us some of the most accomplished and significant artists in the world. Both the City of Sydney and the State Government invest noteworthy funding through their policy and funding body, Arts NSW. Sydney Festival Ltd alone received $4.3 million from the Government, with one million going to the opening night when international super diva Grace Jones performed a free concert in the Domain reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Artworks in shop windows
- SLOT is a window gallery located at one of Sydney’s busiest intersections – the corner of Regent Street and Henderson Road in Redfern. It has presented in excess of 50 art exhibitions since 2003, viewed from the street 24 hours a day. To celebrate its fifth anniversary, SLOT will re-create 11 of those installations in empty shop windows along Regent Street, stretching from Wells Street to Henderson Road and creating an art walk of about one kilometre during a five-week period from January 19 to February 21 reports the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Songs with a beat – Yabun 2009
- What would a day held so special in a nation’s heart be without its lingo, colloquialisms and ironies? Well those attending “Yabun” (song with a beat) found more than you could poke a “boondi” at, much of which came from the mouths of gifted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander MCs. Wire MC and Sista Agz. Main stage at the nationally acclaimed Indigenous concert ironically held upon a tract of Gadigal land re-named after a former monarch, Victoria Park. Here, significant generic terms such as “gammon” (pulling your leg), “walung” (money) and “djilewa” (toilet) were used fleetingly throughout the day reports Adam Hill in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Survival Day on Sydney Harbour
- The SSH organised a Survival/Australia Day harbour cruise in support of the Tribal Warrior Association. We’re happy to report plans for a similar event in 2010! reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Redfern activist calls for climate justice
- The Rudd Government’s failure to adopt adequate greenhouse gas emission targets may prove devastating for Pacific Islanders, according to Aboriginal and Islander activist Patricia Corowa reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Indigenous leaders cautious about carbon trading schemes
- Local Indigenous business leaders are enthusiastic about a carbon trading scheme as a means of emissions reduction and promoting economic development in Indigenous communities, but are warning them about signing agreements with unscrupulous traders reports Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- State taxes tough on inner-city business
- A recent report has thrown open the doors on the State tax system, exposing that NSW has the highest taxes on small business out of six Australian states reports Tara Cliffordin the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
