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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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- Newsagents in it to win it
- The State Government has put the NSW Lotteries Corporation up for sale. Originally introduced in 1931 by the newly elected Lang Labor Government, the State Lottery attracted controversy with many deriding the “vice” of gambling. But the State Lottery Bill was seen as the only way to solve the Government’s budget problems caused by the Great Depression reports James Diack in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Erko Oval now best in South Sydney
- Sydney Council has completed the final stage of its promised upgrade to Erskineville Oval, transforming the ground into the best junior training facility in South Sydney. Administrator and home team, the Alexandria Rovers, called upon Council to complete the last remaining phase of the upgrade to ensure the safety of the hundreds of children who use the ground each week reports Todd Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Automatic for FBi
- Although the nation has managed to avoid a technical recession, the effects of the GFC are beginning to materialise in Sydney. Citywide belt tightening has become an issue for Sydney’s formidable independent radio station FBi. The financial crisis has knocked off around $1 million in revenue that the station needs to survive reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Can the Greens take Balmain and Marrickville in 2011?
- Can the Greens take the seats of Balmain and Marrickville from Labor at the 2011 state election? History suggests not. Unlike Independents, minor parties have found it virtually impossible to win lower house seats. Since the 1940s, the sole minor party victory in a Legislative Assembly seat occurred in 1973, when Kevin Harrold, representing the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), won the seat of Gordon reports Rodney Smith in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Editorial on the Pemulwuy Project Approval in July 2009 South Sydney Herald
- The State Government has formally approved the Aboriginal Housing Company’s Pemulwuy Project on Aboriginal land in Redfern.
- Approval Paves the Way for Pemulwuy
- The Aboriginal Housing Company is celebrating a great victory – the battle for Pemulwuy is over. The Department of Planning has finally approved the AHC’s development application, marking the end of a ten-year saga to get the project off the ground reports Lisa Moon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009.
- Green light for The Block development
- There is a joke around Redfern that if the long-awaited redevelopment of The Block ever goes ahead, a statue of former planning minister Frank Sartor should take pride of place reports Elicia Murray Urban Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald on 3 July 2009.
- $60m to overhaul The Block, Redfern
- AN ambitious revival of The Block in Sydney has been unveiled but no one has offered to pay the bill of $60 million to fix what was a crime-ridden inner-city slum reports Vikki Campion and AAP in The Daily Telegraph of 3 July 2009.
- No funds for Redfern's The Block yet
- A $60 million redevelopment of the notorious inner-Sydney precinct The Block is a step closer to reality, but no one knows where the money will come from reports ninmsn on 2 july 2009.
- Pemulwuy Project to Breathe new life into the Block
- This is the media release from Kristina Keneally Minister for Planning and Minister for Redfern Waterloo annoucing approval of the Aboriginal Housing Company's Pemulwuy Project Concept Plan on Wednesday 2 July 2009.
- AHC Pemulwuy Project receives Planning Approval
- The Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally on 2 July 2009 announced approval for the Aboriginal Housing Company's Pemulwuy Project Concept Plan writes Geoff Turnbull from REDWatch.
- City welcomes Pemulwuy project
- The Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore MP welcomed the State Government's commitment to the Pemulwuy Project reports this media release from the city of Sydney on 2 july 2009.
- Artist finds haven in chaotic city life
- While the Redfern-Waterloo public housing estate has a troubled reputation, one local has found artistic inspiration in a small spot in the frantic inner city suburb reports Angus Thompson on 2 July 2009.
- Redfern's The Block to be redeveloped
- TWN years of dispute over a $60 million housing project for Sydney's notorious The Block precinct has ended but no one has committed to funding the Aboriginal development reports Vincent Morello from Agence France-Presse on 2 July 2009.
- The Block: Past, Present and Future
- More than any other urban area in Australia, the Block in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Redfern, has become a meeting place and, some say, spiritual home for city-dwelling Aborigines. However, it has also long struggled with problems of crime, violence and drug-dealing. When not in jail, stolen-generation member Bill Simon has lived on or near to the block for much of his adult life, and his recent book, "Back to the Block" is a moving and personal account of his life story and triumph over his demons. His friend, the Aboriginal Housing Company CEO Mick Mundine, is overseeing the proposed redevelopment of the area. Here, they're at Gleebooks, discussing the Block: its stories, its problems, and its importance.
- 'Brand new day': Green light for Block overhaul
- The Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern is celebrating after plans to breathe new life into The Block were finally given the go-ahead reports ABC on 2 July 2009.
- Exhibition of Amended RWA Town Centre Development Controls
- The Department of Planning has placed changes to RWA Height of Buildings map for the Redfern Town Centre. The changes reduce the street wall / podium heights from 5 to 2-3 storeys and reduce the setbacks of tower buildings. The full details of the exhibition are in the advertisement below which appeared in the classified section of Central of 1 July 2009. The RWA website will soon include a link to the exhibited documents.
- Frasers Property contributes $6 million to affordable housing
- Leading international developer, Frasers Property, has paid the first $6 million instalment of a total $32 million it pledged to the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) as part of its purchase agreement to acquire and develop the Carlton United Brewery site in Chippendale reports this media release from Frasers on 1 July 2009.
- Redfern community honours leader’s survival story
- Horrible memories were unearthed but the launch of Pastor Bill Simon’s autobiography, Back on the Block, last Tuesday was most certainly a day of celebration reports Angus Thompson on 25 June 2009.
- Danger of refuge being destroyed in Block battle
- Perhaps the most wrenching moment in Bill Simon's autobiography, Back On The Block, is when, as a young man, he meets the mother from whom he was stolen as a child. Throughout his wretched teen years, No.33, as he was in Kinchela Boys' Home, had sustained himself and his three younger brothers on hopes of reunion. But when the moment comes she barely knows him. Worse, he finds himself unable - ever - to forgive her failure to protect them writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 June 2009.
