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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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- Pride in Pemulwuy Project
- The Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) is hopeful its housing project will finally get off the ground, pending the outcome of a public exhibition showing nine years of hard work reports Lisa Moon in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Rolling up the shutters, getting down to business
- Shopfronts in the Redfern-Waterloo area continue to display depressing and uninviting shutters and cages, the ornaments of crime and antisocial behaviour. The recent market turmoil could see more of these shutters becoming permanent fixtures, with the financial crisis already decimating one local business reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Suggestions for police commander
- As a local resident, I am very pleased to see that the new Redfern Police Commander, Luke Freudenstein, has said that he will try to ensure the the police officers under his command will do their job properly and obey the law (‘Policing in Redfern’, SSH October 2008) writes Dale Mills in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Congregation of fine food and culture
- Food brings people together and teaches us about different lifestyles, cultures, even historical backgrounds. And if you were one of the 20,000 hungry, hot-but-happy, Sunday-morning wanderers who took to Danks Street on Sunday October 26 for the Danks Street Festival, you would have noticed what a wonderfully proud, colourful and cultural community we are becoming reports Scott Winter in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- A dog called Wanja
- Screened outside at night, on The Block in Redfern, Wanja cast light on a community which is often overshadowed and overlooked. Writer Angie Abdilla, who is of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent, says that she wanted the film to challenge people’s thoughts on how communities live on The Block and who they are, showing a different side to a neighbourhood that is often misrepresented as negative reports Tara Clifford in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- First impressions of life on Council
- The City of Sydney has four new Councillors: Meredith Burgmann, Irene Doutney, Di Tornai and Robert Kok. The SSH asked them each to share some of their initial impressions and priorities for the next four years of their office. We expect to hear from Councillor Robert Kok for our next issue reports the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- CUB development to cast shadow over Chippendale
- The history of Carlton United Breweries is one of mergers, acquisitions and continual growth, and the company is one of the success stories of corporate Australia reports Pam Dagwelin the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Notre Dame expanding
- Notre Dame University is trying to expand, and Chippendale residents are not very happy reports Trevor Davies in the fast News in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Tell your kids about Peter Norman
- A community street party to celebrate Peter Norman Day was held on Thursday October 9, from 5 to 9pm, at Leamington Lane, near Macdonaldtown Station reports Elizabeth Koorey in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Supermarket a threat to “village life” in Erskineville?
- Erskineville residents met again on Wednesday October 15 to plan the next phase in a 12-month-long fight to stop the development of a supermarket on the corner of Erskineville Road and Gowrie Street. City of Sydney Council refused the development on the grounds that it was too large. However, Harold Finger, the developer, has since appealed the decision, taking the matter to the Land and Environment Court reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- From little cuttings, big plants grow – streetscape community garden in Waterloo
- It all started with some cuttings and a green thumb. Now, a streetscape garden in Waterloo is giving millionaires’ rows in Surry Hills and Woollahra a run for their money reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Chippendale’s food for the future
- Chippendale residents treated Sydney-siders to a rare delight this month when they transformed their streets into a community food fair reports Flint Duxfield in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- A spiked love story
- Working out of the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Woolloomooloo, theatre company Tamarama Rock Surfers is collaborating with Redfern locals, Luke Cowling and Melinda Dransfield of Unit 107. Their new production of Kiss Me Like You Mean It, written by Chris Chibnall of Doctor Who and Torchwood fame, is a play of parallel love stories and the bittersweet joy of enduring love that must confront the ultimate sacrifice reports Leonie Tillman in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Love times two – local author’s enchanting memoir
- In the late 1960s, Kathy, a young woman living and working in suburban Sydney, met a Polish medical student and fell in love. In My Two Husbands Kathy Golski, recollects her time with her first husband, Olek, which was tragically cut short, and how she found love again with another Polish man, Voy. My Two Husbands chronicles a tale of survival and hope through laughter and tears reports Amanda Robb in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008.
- Snoop Dogg in Redfern
- The rap star Snoop Dogg arrived in Sydney late yesterday and headed straight to the Redfern Community Centre, where the mob waited, chanting his name. The visit was to help promote the Field of Dreams project, a South Sydney Football Club youth charity scheme to build a touch-football field in The Block. Inset: Dogg in South Sydney gear, flanked by Nathan Merritt.
- Australia's best house
- The EDO apartment building, designed by the Sydney firm Stanisic Associates, and CarriageWorks, by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, were "really innovative". CarriageWorks, which won the Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage, was so good it almost won a commercial architecture award as well, Mr Tzannes said. The full report by Richard Jinman in the Sydney Morning Herald of October 31, 2008 is below.
- Indigenous jobs plan launched
- A chance for all … Tremain Mundine and Clive Cavanagh speak to the businessman Andrew Forrest about the jobs they would like to find reports Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald of October 31, 2008.
- Rudd gives $20m to black scholarship fund
- THE Federal Government will fund a big expansion of the country's main indigenous boarding school scholarship scheme to allow an extra 2000 Aboriginal students to attend top secondary schools reports Mark Davis Sydney Morning Herald Political Correspondent October 31, 2008.
- RWA continues to 2011-12 - Minister
- "The Redfern-Waterloo Authority continues operation until 2011-12 at which point it will reviewed, either for termination or to be incorporated into other agencies". This announcement was included in the Summary of Planning Portfolio reforms accompanied Minister Keneally's the media release on "Planning Reform to Keep Development and New South Wales Moving" of Wednesday 29 October 2008.
- And they're leaving: Harold Park for sale
- THE historic Harold Park track in Glebe, home to harness racing since 1902, will be sold, paving the way for the NSW Harness Racing Club to move its headquarters to south-western Sydney and leaving the huge inner-city site open for development reports John Schell with Alexandra Smith in the Sydney Morning Herald of October 27, 2008.
