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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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- FRIENDS OF EVELEIGH INVITE YOU TO JOIN US AT THE RAID RALLY
- Like so many other dedicated citizens around the state, we are a group endeavouring to protect our colonial and Australian cultural heritage says this media release of 14th October from Friends of Eveleigh.
- Redfern's green housing project unveiled
- While the silvertails of Kirribilli discuss solar panel rebates and water harvesting over a latte, Redfern locals can now look forward to having their carbon footprint reduced, as residents of the first Green public housing project reports Patrick Billings in City News of 13th October 2008.
- Extra classes for inner city
- Enrolments in inner-city public schools are on the rise, with primary and high schools forced to add extra classes to deal with the influx of 550 extra students this year, according to new Education Department figures reports Sandra Fonseca in Central of 8th October 2008.
- Kids settle into play
- At three o’clock, the Settlement Neighbourhood Centre in Darlington begins to fill with children reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 8th October 2008.
- RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan Proposed Changes September 2008
- The RWA has submitted to Department of Planning its responses to submissions received during the exhibition of their North Eveleigh Concept Plan in May and June 2008. The RWA’s has also submitted its modifications to the Concept Plan in their Preferred Project Report. This document and its appendices including responses to submissions received are now on the Department of Planning’s website. Below we have provided from the RWA documents an outline of the changes.
- Policing in Redfern - Knowing our rights, creating trust
- Telling the story shortly after it happened, 30-year-old Darlington resident Ben Falkenmire was still unsettled: “The problem is, we don’t know our rights. I didn’t know what to do.” reports Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Feeling proud of who you are
- Shane Phillips smiles genially as he gestures for me to take a chair. As CEO of the Tribal Warrior organisation, delegate to the Prime Minister’s 2020 summit in Canberra, and coach of the Redfern All-Blacks, the community activist and life-long resident of the The Block is notoriously self-effacing reports Sarah Malik in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- By the light of the Chinese moon
- Every year, the Chinese community celebrates its Moon Festival. Obviously, in China, this is an autumn festival, as it is timed for the full moon which appears in mid-September – rather like the celebration of Christmas, when a northern hemisphere winter festival becomes translated into a summer event in Australia reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Leagues Club launches loyalty program
- South Sydney Leagues Club is in its 50th year and although the first half century was filled with memorable moments and some controversy, the next 50 years look most promising. For this Leagues Club is probably the most watched over in Australia, with intense interest from media and members reports the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- For artists and passers-by
- Shopfront Studio, located at 152 Redfern Street in Redfern, is a studio/gallery space where local artists can create and display their art. People walking by get to witness the creative process of the artists reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Spanish community care
- Despite the fact that the Spanish language is the sixth most spoken in Australia, there is a distinct lack of facilities and programs which cater to the largely ageing Spanish community. The Spanish Community Care Association (SCCA), since being awarded a grant from the Sydney City Council late last year, has begun to dissolve the social and financial barriers that have left many alienated from the greater community reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Spinifex – a Darlington business at the cutting edge
- Technological advances in display devices mean that LED screens can match the height of an Olympic stadium and wrap around irregular shapes while beaming interactive content. “LED screens are now more flexible,” says Tracey Taylor, executive producer for Spinifex, a locally based Design and Communications Agency reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Piecemeal approach to issues of domestic violence
- News the State Government has allocated $12,060 to the Redfern Legal Centre to educate female victims of domestic violence is evidence of a piecemeal approach, says a local Redfern woman in the know reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Food sustainability in Chippendale
- Since August, Chippendale residents and businesses have been buying their fruit and vegetables direct from farms within 100km of Sydney. On Saturday October 11, they will showcase their environmentally friendly approach at the Food for the Future sustainable food fair reports Alex Mackenzie in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- The rise and demise of Frank Sartor
- While I was away Frank Sartor resigned as a Cabinet Minister. Frank started his career in politics in Newtown as a community activist fighting in relation to appropriate development. Fast News spoke to Bill Sheridan last month and he reminded me of some of the history of the inner city and the former minister reports Trevor Davies in The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Step it up and go
- With Australia now having the highest rate of obesity in the world, four South Sydney locals have taken control of their own waistlines by starting a running group reports Alex Mackenzie in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Homelessness in Sydney an “epidemic”
- The number of people who are sleeping rough in Sydney is rising, and substantial increases in funding and housing are required to address the problem, says Lisa Burns of the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC) reports Vanessa Watson in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- Hospital site “for the benefit of local residents”
- There is much anxiety among members of the South Sydney community regarding the future of the site where the now derelict Royal South Sydney hospital stands. In June this year, Lord Mayor Clover Moore admitted that the Hillsong Church had expressed interest in the site after its DA for the former RTA site was knocked back. Local residents were concerned that the church would possibly be relocated just up the road on the site where the hospital once operated reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of October 2008.
- City artists score prime studio space
- It was once a fire station, and was even a police impound at one point. Now the old Kent Brewery site in Chippendale has entered its next phase: multi-disciplinary art space reports Caroline Lai in City News of 5th October 2008.
- Chippo locals become sustainable heroes
- Chippendale will be divided into four “paddocks” during the Food for the Future fair this Saturday reports Alex McDonald in City News of 5th October 2008.
