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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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- Tears as Mario Fenech, Craig Coleman return to Redfern
- HE shed blood for more than 10 years at Redfern Oval. Yesterday, Souths legend Mario Fenech shed a tear reports Dean Ritchie in the Herald Sun of 18 December 2008.
- Disservice to children
- THEY had a little Christmas party at the offices of the Aboriginal Children's Service in Sydney's Redfern yesterday. It was pretty much a traditional affair, with some tinsel and presents for the kids. Most of the guests were young Aboriginal mothers who need help with their parenting skills. As such, there were also the usual reminders: don't overdo it this Christmas, stay off the grog and focused on the kids, and don't blow the pre-Christmas welfare cheques on some bloke who may be on the scene only as long as the money lasts reports Caroline Overington in Australian of December 18, 2008.
- Souths' fans stick with Crowe
- REDFERN is a long way from Tinseltown, but it seems Russell Crowe is far from out-of-touch with Rabbitohs fans reports Amy Dale in the Herald Sun of December 17.
- Sydney’s newest farmers market kicks off
- Anyone who thinks the farmers markets concept is overdone: you’re wrong! Report from FoodWeek Online Monday, December 15, 2008
- Rabbitohs can't always rely on me: Crowe
- South Sydney owner Russell Crowe has indicated he won't continue to be the Rabbitohs' cash cow, saying the time has arrived for the NRL club to stand on its own feet reports AAP in the Age of December 15, 2008.
- Justice Kirby to be replaced by NSW judge
- Justice Michael Kirby will be replaced on the High Court bench by the New South Wales Court of Appeal judge, Justice Virginia Bell reports ABC news on December 15, 2008.
- Redfern complex to help Aborigines shoot for the stars
- A SPORTS facility costing $24 million is being built in Redfern to help develop and foster the next generation of Aboriginal stars Reports Daniel Lane in the Sun Herald of December 14, 2008.
- Domm quits but questions remain
- The Redfern community is calling for proper community consultation following the resignation of CEO Robert Domm from the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) writes Angus Thompson in City News of 14th December 2008.
- Redfern protest attacks intervention
- Protesters in Sydney have called for a halt to the federal government's intervention program in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities reports AAP in the The Age website on December 13, 2008.
- Redfern pilot tailored to cut energy needs
- TEN Redfern housing blocks have been torn down to make room for a new era in public housing reports Matthew Levinson in the Sydney Morning Herald of December 10, 2008.
- Privatisation plans raise heritage fears
- The NSW Government plans to privatise the Australian Technology Park at Redfern and most of Darling Harbour, in a bid to raise the revenue needed to pull the state’s budget out of the red reports Sandra Fonseca in the Central on 10th December 2008.
- Activating Human Rights
- Wednesday 10 December is International Human Rights Day and is the sixty years¹ anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration came about in the aftermath of World War Two and was envisioned by those determined to ensure that nothing like Nazi Germany would ever happen again. Australia¹s Doc Evatt was one of those pioneers.
- WordUP! Book Launch - Thursday 11 December 2008
- Recent studies have shown that by the age of 15, more than one-third of Australia's Indigenous students do not have the skills and knowledge in reading literacy needed to meet real-life challenges.1 The wordUP! literacy program recently run at The Yurungai Learning Centre in Waterloo in Sydney is a community based project inspired to help close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage reports this media release of 8 December 2008 about the WordUP Booklaunmch.
- Residents says public housing is bedlam
- An increasing number of homeless people are bunking illegally in public housing at Redfern and Surry Hills, prompting a new joint imitative from the City and the NSW Department of Housing reports Angus Thompson in City News on 7th December 2008.
- The needle and the homage done - welcome to the cool new world of craft
- Some market stalls should be admired from a distance. Standing a good metre away, you can nod encouragement to a dejected artisan without giving false hope of a sale. "A wind chime made of old forks! How did you think of it?" you might remark, before moving on to admire a compact disc tower carved from a tree trunk reports Lisa Pryor in the Sydney Morning Herald of December 6, 2008.
- Torn between two States
- LUKE Ford, favoured for tonight's AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor, will follow his front-running film to the US. Not for long if our filmmakers have their way reports The Daily Telegraph December 06, 2008.
- Demand for Drug Support
- A $1.3 million refurbishment of the South Sydney Youth Service centre was given the green light by Sydney Council last week reports Robert Burton Bradley in the Central of 3 December 2008.
- Setting kids up for success
- A decade ago Bill Crews decided he’d like to help kids who can’t read. Under the guidance of Macquarie Uni, a team of educators and volunteers takes kids who’ve spent five years in the education system and can’t read a word (“Is it the black stuff you read?” asked one) to writing and reading a piece of poetry. Graduations at the Ashfield Uniting Church require a box of tissues Writes Brendan Nelson in a Guest editorial in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- “It is a radical act to garden …”
- It is a radical act to garden … We are afraid of being in deep relationship with each other … the earth … God. To plant a seed and begin that process is an act of hope” (Mural in the Eden Garden, South Sydney Uniting Church) reports Brendan Wong in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Cycling, recycling
- On November 14, the Waterloo Recycling Workshop (WRW), which provides furniture and non-electrical household goods to low-income persons, was officially re-opened at the garages of the Turanga flats at 1 Phillip Street, Waterloo. The WRW was re-opened by Greens Councillor Irene Doutney, and included stalls from Planet Ark and the City of Sydney reports Adrian Emilsen in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
