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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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- What instrument does a skeleton play?
- I must admit I didn’t know the answer to that significant question until told to us all by a confident young Darlington Public School student at the Halloween Fete recently. The answer is, of course, “A trombone!” Obvious, when you think of it. She gave us another one. “What does a bird say on Halloween?” The bird says, “Twig or tweet!” reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of December 2009
- Have you heard? - The fast news with Trevor Davies - December 2009
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of December 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below:
- Building on Common Ground
- In October, NSW Premier Nathan Rees received widespread community support when he announced a plan to permanently help some of the 27,000 of his citizens who are homeless every night. On November 19, NSW Housing Minister David Borger informed the media that the DA would be placed that day with the City of Sydney reports the South Sydney Herald of December 2009.
- Australian rail heritage ‘travesty’
- The Australian Technology Park is trying to dispose of a collection of rare and unique heritage machines that former workers at the Eveleigh rail yards were promised would be preserved reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 2 December 2009.
- Str8 Ballaz un-rap their true talent
- THE Str8 Ballaz have left behind their teenage past on Glebe’s streets to rap about their lives and loves writes Marie Sansom in Inner West Courier of 29 November 2009.
- Wanted: housing for uni students
- THE University of Sydney is seeking small-property owners to help solve a chronic student housing shortage brought about by the tough city rental market reports Heath Gilmore the Higher Education writer in the Sydney Morning Herald of 28 November 2009.
- As one door closes…
- Key College has avoided closure next year by finding new premises to rent in Redfern for the next two years writes Aaron Cook in City News on 26 November 2009.
- Choice sites for cheaper housing
- THE City of Sydney is considering selling more than $30 million worth of prime inner-city real estate to developers who will build affordable housing reports Paul Bibby Sydney Morning Herald Urban Affairs on 24 November 2009.
- Integrity, Ethics and the NSW Public Service
- The NSW Ombudsman, Mr Barbour, has put into words what everyone else who has had to deal with the bureaucracy has known for many decades – that the bureaucracy has morphed the concepts of Integrity and Ethical Behaviour into things demanded of those engaging with the bureaucracy whilst exempting themselves. They have been given a different meaning by the bureaucracy to that contained in the dictionary when bureaucratic compliance is sought by the public. They have been removed from underpinning dialogue between the bureaucracy and the public in an attempt to avoid accountability and ethical behaviour on the part of the bureaucracy. The historic concepts of Integrity and Ethical Behaviour have become something to be avoided by the bureaucracy at all costs writes Ross Smith in TSN's Rimfire Review of 23 November 2009.
- Redfern Waterloo Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP2) Update November 2009
- The Redfern Waterloo Authority and Housing NSW issued the Update below in November 2009. It was handed around at the Redfern Neighbourhood Advisory Board information day on Saturday November 21st 2009.
- Mixed Use Development, Redfern RSL, Gibbons Street, Redfern - Response to Submissions
- The Department of Planning have made available the the respose from the Redfern RSL site developer to submissions from the public exhibition. The developers Preferred Project Report incorportates changes following public comment as well as submissions from bodies such as the RWA, Department of Planning and the City of Sydney.
- South Sydney winger Nathan Merritt overjoyed after being named in Aboriginal All-Star team
- NATHAN Merritt remembers the spot being right across the road from Souths Leagues. No barbed wire. No jagged metal, either. Just up, over and get stuck in. "Yeah, me and my cousins, we were always climbing that fence at Redfern Oval when we were little," Merritt recalls, grinning. "But back in those days it really was one of only two options ... footy or the PCYC." reports Nick Walshaw in the The Daily Telegraph on 20 November 2009.
- It's last drinks at the Abercrombie and punters raise a toast
- LAST drinks have been called at a historic Sydney pub on the former Carlton United Brewery site as construction of the $2 million residential and commercial hub approaches reports Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald of 19 November 2009.
- Unis push for land to build student housing
- FIVE public universities are negotiating with the Premier, Nathan Rees, to relax planning laws and free up Crown land to help build housing for an extra 15,000 students in Sydney reports Heath Gilmore in the Sydney Morning Herald of 19 Novemner 2009.
- Sydney city ``most exciting’’ place to live: Community Pulse Survey
- Readers from 20 newspapers across Sydney, including those of the Mt Druitt Standard, all agreed the suburb was dull. Blacktown, Redfern, Campbelltown and Liverpool rounded out the top five most boring suburbs. At the other end of the scale the city, Bondi, Manly, Newtown and Parramatta were listed as the most exciting reports Central on 18 November 2009.
- Mixed Communities - Placebo or Panacea
- Paul Cheshire’s paper of 17th May 2007, Segregated neighbourhoods and mixed communities, provides an interesting insight into the concept of induced Social Mix currently being implemented in Australia on multiple levels of government writes Ross Smith in TSN's Rimfire Review on 16 November, 2009.
- Slammin' Sam's the man for Lang
- Souths kicked off their preparations for 2010 yesterday by announcing their Redfern neighbour, the Australian Technology Park, had signed a two-year deal to sponsor the club's charitable arm, Souths Cares reports this extract from Leauge HQ's Slammin' Sam's the man for Lang on 14 November 2009.
- Australian Technology Park signs two-year sponsorship deal with Souths Cares and Australian Technology Park Performance Centre at Redfern Oval
- The Australian Technology Park today entered into a two-year agreement to sponsor local community service provider Souths Cares, as well as take on the naming rights to the Australian Technology Park Performance Centre at Redfern Oval reports this media release from South Sydney Rabbitohs on 13 November 2009.
- More businesses interested in Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships
- An organisation that brokers partnerships between some of Australia's biggest corporations and Cape York Indigenous communities in far north Queensland says more companies want to get involved reports ABC news on 13 November 2009.
- Clarification on C7 & Global TV Marshalling prior to entering ATP studios
- The following extract is taken from a letter from architectus on behalf of Global Television Services and Channel 7 in relation to DA number 051-08-09 to clarify the process of audience arrival and marshalling prior to entering the studios on 29 October 2009. As this letter addresses a number of issues which have been raised as concerns in the community during exhibition we have reproduced the clarifications here. The letter from which this has been extracted is part of the DA Application which is being exhibited until 2 December 2009.
