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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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- From Russia to Randwick: 100 years
- Not many of those pushing the 90-years barrier would think about moving house, let alone country. Waterloo resident Lev Gudeyskiy did just that back in 1996, coming to Australia to start a new life reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- More than transport - Launch of another free shuttle bus
- On February 15, Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, launched the second development in the “Village to Village” free shuttle bus service for South Sydney Community Transport reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Wish List 2008
- In the South Sydney Herald of March 2008 Ellice Mol asks community representatives what they wish for in 2008. Two of those asked came from Redfern Tony Pooley and Leanne Fraser.
- Have You Heard - The Fast News March 2008
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008 has reported on a number of Redfern Waterloo items which we have reported below:
- Apology draws tears, offers hope
- Seldom has a single word meant so much as when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations on February 13, saying “sorry” to families torn apart by governments that removed children from a 50,000-year-old culture and left them alone in a country rife with racism and without their traditional role models reports Joseph Correy in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- On the issue of compensation
- On Wednesday February 13, as the first order of business in the 42nd Parliament, an apology was offered to members and families of the Stolen Generations reports Mark Hughes in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Human rights and the national apology
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations presents Australia with an opportunity to reflect on the state of human rights in this country. To understand where we stand on human rights it is imperative to examine the political context of the world today, and where we as Australians fit into this reports Aletha Penrith and Joseph Correy in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- To Canberra, towards Reconciliation
- Sarah Malik takes a bus into Canberra on a cold Tuesday morning to cover the protest rally against the Indigenous intervention in the Northern Territory and writes about it in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Mundine and his Cousins
- A media frenzy ensued inside Mundine’s Gym last month in Redfern, when Ben Cousins appeared before a media scrum to talk about his rehabilitation from drug use reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Centenary year: plenty to cheer about
- South Sydney Football Club held a Rabbitohs Member and Fan Appreciation Day at Erskineville Oval on Sunday February 17. Fans young and young at heart cheered as the Souths NRL squad for the club’s Centenary Season in 2008 was introduced reports Zimmy Watt in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- The Erko supermarket debate
- Friends of Erskineville have stepped up their Internet-based campaign in opposition to the proposal of a two-storey supermarket. The momentum has continued to gather pace with more than 3,000 people signing petitions in local shops and online reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Residents up in arms over Hillsong
- Rosebery residents met face-to-face with Hillsong last month to decide the fate of the building of a 2,700-seat mega-church at an old RTA site in Rosebery reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Progress, not panic, for Darlington business
- Redfern Station will be upgraded in under four years and a supermarket is likely near the CarriageWorks, according to the CEO of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008
- Redfern Stadium to Benefit Entire Community
- REDFERN rugby league hopefuls will have a home ground for the first time in almost 80 years when they share Redfern Park and Oval with the South Sydney Rabbitohs writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 5th March 2008.
- ‘Nothing will stop us’
- ABORIGINAL Housing Company chief executive Micheal Mundine says nothing will stop the company's Pemulwuy Project for The Block, despite the volunteer organisation being unable to pay an assessment fee required by the Planning Department writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 5th March 2008.
- Mural's resurrection opens scars
- A PLAN to renovate a Redfern community centre and invite Aboriginal artists to repaint a destroyed mural has reopened old wounds in the rapidly changing suburb, pitting some residents against members of the indigenous community writes Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter of the SMH on March 4, 2008.
- Union helps build new hope
- JUST seven months ago, the future for Chris Davies was looking very bleak. The 18-year-old was unemployed, had no contact with his family and roamed the streets of Sydney's inner-city Redfern Brad Norington in The Australian of March 04, 2008.
- ANZAC DAY 2008 “Coloured Digger” March, Ecumenical Service and Exhibition, Redfern NSW Australia
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women have fought courageously for Australia in all overseas conflicts. They are Australia’s Unsung Heroes reports this Media Alert of 3 March 2008 from the “Coloured Digger” about ANZAC Day 2008.
- Ethical Food
- The City of Sydney Council is developing an Ethical Food Policy to ensure that sustainable, healthy and cruelty-free options are considered and implemented for all catered functions says this media release from City of Sydney Greens Councillor Irene Doutney on 2nd March 2009.
- LIVING ON A PRAYER
- FORMER high-ranking Hillsong member Leigh Coleman has been accused of deliberately misleading the public and the media as the battle for Rosebery's future intensifies reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 27th February 2008.
