Forgot your password?
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.
- Activating Human Rights
- Wednesday 10 December is International Human Rights Day and is the sixty years¹ anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration came about in the aftermath of World War Two and was envisioned by those determined to ensure that nothing like Nazi Germany would ever happen again. Australia¹s Doc Evatt was one of those pioneers.
- WordUP! Book Launch - Thursday 11 December 2008
- Recent studies have shown that by the age of 15, more than one-third of Australia's Indigenous students do not have the skills and knowledge in reading literacy needed to meet real-life challenges.1 The wordUP! literacy program recently run at The Yurungai Learning Centre in Waterloo in Sydney is a community based project inspired to help close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage reports this media release of 8 December 2008 about the WordUP Booklaunmch.
- Residents says public housing is bedlam
- An increasing number of homeless people are bunking illegally in public housing at Redfern and Surry Hills, prompting a new joint imitative from the City and the NSW Department of Housing reports Angus Thompson in City News on 7th December 2008.
- The needle and the homage done - welcome to the cool new world of craft
- Some market stalls should be admired from a distance. Standing a good metre away, you can nod encouragement to a dejected artisan without giving false hope of a sale. "A wind chime made of old forks! How did you think of it?" you might remark, before moving on to admire a compact disc tower carved from a tree trunk reports Lisa Pryor in the Sydney Morning Herald of December 6, 2008.
- Torn between two States
- LUKE Ford, favoured for tonight's AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor, will follow his front-running film to the US. Not for long if our filmmakers have their way reports The Daily Telegraph December 06, 2008.
- Demand for Drug Support
- A $1.3 million refurbishment of the South Sydney Youth Service centre was given the green light by Sydney Council last week reports Robert Burton Bradley in the Central of 3 December 2008.
- Setting kids up for success
- A decade ago Bill Crews decided he’d like to help kids who can’t read. Under the guidance of Macquarie Uni, a team of educators and volunteers takes kids who’ve spent five years in the education system and can’t read a word (“Is it the black stuff you read?” asked one) to writing and reading a piece of poetry. Graduations at the Ashfield Uniting Church require a box of tissues Writes Brendan Nelson in a Guest editorial in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- “It is a radical act to garden …”
- It is a radical act to garden … We are afraid of being in deep relationship with each other … the earth … God. To plant a seed and begin that process is an act of hope” (Mural in the Eden Garden, South Sydney Uniting Church) reports Brendan Wong in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Cycling, recycling
- On November 14, the Waterloo Recycling Workshop (WRW), which provides furniture and non-electrical household goods to low-income persons, was officially re-opened at the garages of the Turanga flats at 1 Phillip Street, Waterloo. The WRW was re-opened by Greens Councillor Irene Doutney, and included stalls from Planet Ark and the City of Sydney reports Adrian Emilsen in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- The future and the past at Souths Leagues
- Where are they now? ‘N Grade’ Grand Final, Redfern Oval, 1976. Jimmy Monta (La Perouse) and Brad Downes (Mascot Juniors) holding the ‘N Grade’ trophy in this photo from South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club. Mascot Juniors won the grand final that year reports the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Tenants left in the dark
- In the light of Housing NSW’s recent commitment to address the maintenance backlog for public housing properties in NSW, the SSH conducted its own inspection of Waterloo’s Solander building to determine the current condition of the public housing estate reports Vanessa Watson in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Questions to the Housing NSW Minister
- The NSW Minister for Housing, David Borger, recently granted the SSH an interview. This followed on from recent SSH articles seeking accountability from Housing NSW around the manner in which it administers its properties reports in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Notre Dame’s expansion plans
- It seems as if everyone wants a piece of Chippendale at the moment and the historic suburb’s residents are worried that Notre Dame University is being greedy reports Pamela Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Café owners stung by new Council fees
- Café and restaurant owners in South Sydney are feeling disgruntled about the introduction of new food administration fees by the City of Sydney Council. The Council has announced an annual fee of $240 on top of the pre-existing $85 fee for health inspections reports Kate Lamb & Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Sustaining business in Redfern
- Hopes are high for a new centre for business sustainability which has just been unveiled in Redfern reports Lisa Moon in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Community aid, thanks to volunteers
- Contributing skills, giving assistance and sharing experiences among diversity are what makes a neighbourhood a community reports Tara Clifford in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Coloured Digger Project thanks Damien Minton Gallery
- On November 12, the Damien Minton Gallery in Redfern presented a cheque for $4,000 to the Coloured Digger Project Steering Committee reports the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Something about homeless people that makes some people feel uncomfortable
- The Central Courier reported last month that residents of the St Margaret’s Village apartments, opposite Edward Eagar Lodge, are considering hiring extra security guards because of antisocial behaviour caused by alcohol. Locals, the Courier says, have complained about the large number of homeless people hanging around outside the Lodge. They blame the homeless for disturbances rather than the crowds of people who flock to the late-night premises which serve alcohol on Oxford Street. Homeless people are easier to blame reports Trevor Davies in The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Do we need an International Year of the Disabled 2010?
- Some Fast News readers may be old enough to remember the International Year of the Disabled, way back in 1981 reports Trevor Davies in The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- “One placard in a picket line of urban Indigenous activism”
- Redfern artist, Adam Hill, has been creating storms of controversy in his latest exhibition held in Melbourne. Entitled, This is Why We Don’t Stand for the National Anthem, the show features a provocative image of an Aboriginal boy kneeling before a white priest with cruciform phallus reports Kate Lamb in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
