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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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- Sydney rain gardens clean up
- Dozens of new rain gardens will be planted across Sydney as part of the City of Sydney’s plan to harvest and treat stormwater writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 29 March 2010.
- Platform 3: A massive weekend of Hip Hop at CarriageWorks Redfern
- Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival at CarriageWorks was the biggest yet, with a weekend of popping, locking, jamming and graff art, beat boxing and scratching reports Sydney Central 0n 24 March 2010.
- Central Clarification Regarding Robert Domm, ICAC & RWA
- The following appeared under the heading “Clarification” in the Central of 24 March 2010.
- Aboriginal activist Charles 'Chicka' Dixon to receive state funeral
- CHARLES ''CHICKA'' DIXON, one of the most prominent Aboriginal activists of the 1960s and 1970s, has died after a long battle with asbestosis, aged 81 reports Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 23 March 2010.
- 52 Suburbs - Suburbs Number 6 Eveleigh & 28 Redfern
- My name is Louise. I've lived in Sydney for over 30 years but have never set foot in most of its 600 plus suburbs. Now I'm on a mission to explore and photograph one new Sydney suburb a week for a year in search of the beauty in the 'burb. Care to join me? [Eveligh & Redfern have already been covered].
- NRL struggling to secure home loan, despite code being on upswing
- Negotiations between the NRL and banks to secure a loan to build new headquarters have stalled because of the code's 10-year history of near-zero cash balances. Reports Roy Masters in the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 March 2010. [One of the possible locations according to the article is the Australian Technology Park at Redfern].
- Community Consultation Parking Study in Local Area Adjacent Australian Technology Park
- Following a community meeting in December last year where parking issues were raised, the Australian Technology Park Precinct Management Limited (ATPPML) has appointed Transport and Urban Planning to undertake a parking study in the local streets adjacent the ATP site reports Newsletter 1 from Transport and Urban Planning on 19 March 2010.
- Government backtracks on gender ruling
- THE case of the state's first genderless citizen has forced the equivalent of a bureaucratic sex change on the government reports Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 19 March 2010. [Norrie lives in Redfern].
- Australian governments failing
- Governments are failing the estimated 50% of early school leavers who can’t find a job, and forcing charities to pick up the slack according to Rev. Bill Crews, Executive Chairman of The Exodus Foundation reports Christian Today on 17 March 2010.
- From far and near they take hip-hop to heart
- They come straight from school, dragging parents and grandparents behind them, cartwheeling and spinning on the newly sprung dance floor of the Redfern Community Centre reports Linda Morriss in the Sydney Morning Herald of 12 March 2010.
- Transport Plan Implementation Brought Forward - 11 March 2010
- This week, the State Government issued critical infrastructure declarations to start implementation of some of the projects in the $50.2 billion Metropolitan Transport Plan reports this media release from NSW Premier Kristina Keneally on 11 March 2010.
- Millie fights for women’s rights
- Heffron Woman of the Year Millie Ingram claims she will keep fighting until women’s issues are properly addressed reports Leesa Smith in Southern Courier of 16 March 2010.
- $2-billion property portfolio to community housing
- New legislation will revolutionise the future of public housing in this NSW, according to Housing Minister Mr David Borger reports Southern Courier on 1o March 2010.
- Is there another Joe Cahill out there who can rescue NSW?
- One of the most under-recognised names in the history of NSW is John Joseph Cahill, better known as Joe, or even ``Old Smoothie''. Joe Cahill represented the Cook's River area of Sydney in the NSW parliament between 1925 and 1959. [He was also a fitter at the Eveleigh railyards] writes Phillip O’Neil in the Macarthur Advertiser of 10 March 2010.
- Win for Waterloo public housing estate
- Housing NSW has announced a $12 million program across three years to install CCTV surveillance, concierges and maintenance teams to improve security at the Waterloo Green housing estate - home to 1500 residents reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 10 March 2010.
- Elaine Pelot-Syron : Thinking Outside The Square: A Retrospective (1972-2010)
- "I have been documenting people, places and events for over three decades. As an American emigrant from Bradenton, a small country town in Florida, I came to cosmopolitan Sydney in 1971, with fresh eyes" writes Elaine Pelot-Syron in this media release and invitation to her Thinking Outside The Square: A Retrospective (1972-2010) on 9 March 2010.
- Freak the technique: Hip Hop hits CarriageWorks Redfern
- Some of the most spectacular dancing you’ll ever see will happen at CarriageWorks in the Freak The Technique showcase of Platform 3 Hip Hop festival on March 20 reports Kim Shaw in the Central Magazine of 9 March 2010.
- The Bunnies in the money: Souths posted a profit in '09
- AFTER losing $7 million in the previous two years, South Sydney chairman Nicholas Pappas yesterday announced the Rabbitohs had turned a profit for the first time in recent memory last season - making them the only Sydney club to do so in 2009 reports Brad Walter in the Sydney Morning Herald of 8 March 2010.
- RWA Update Issue # 5 - 8 March 2010
- RWA Update - 8 March 2010 - NEWS: Redfern: A Centre for Excellence / Premier highlights changing face of Redfern Waterloo / Human Services boost at the RWA / RWA CEO attends REDWatch meeting / Parking consultant engaged for Alexandria / Heritage update / RWA helps Babana find new home / New services map on RWA website / Coca Cola comes to Redfern Waterloo / Redfern Waterloo Newsletter at your doorstep / News from the ATP / WHAT’S ON: Eveleigh Farmers’ Market – every Saturday 8am to 1pm / REDWater Community Market – 20 March / Family and Culture Day on The Block – 27 March / Yaama Dhiyaan - 2010 dates / Koori Job Ready: Information Day on 7 April
- Developers may get site uni seeks to house students
- The housing needs of thousands of Sydney University students have been left hanging by the state government, which has failed to make a decision about a urban renewal site capable of providing mass accommodation reports Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald of 5 March 2010.
