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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. You can get up to date news by setting up a Google News alert at http://www.google.com/alerts. News Alerts will not pick up local media and some mainstream media stories which do not appear on a news website, where possible we put these stories on our website to provide wide access to the stories.
Performing for the Pope
A local Redfern man has performed in the re-enactment of Christ’s crucifixion, a World Youth Day event viewed by millions worldwide. Craig Hull, who lives on The Block, was hit by a car on Riley Street six weeks prior to the performance, but fortunately the fractured hip he incurred healed sufficiently in time to enable him to take part writes Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
Socialist Alliance splits
Selling ox tongues and ocelot spleens to spectators in the Jerusalem Coliseum, Brian – in Monty Python’s Life of Brian – encounters a group of four conspiring revolutionaries, who reproach him for selling Roman imperialist tidbits instead of proper food. “Are you the Judean People’s Front?” asks Brian. “F**k off!” responds a toga-wearing John Cleese. “We’re the People’s Front of Judea” writes Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
Hillsong withdraws DA for Rosebery site
Hillsong Church has withdrawn its $72 million development application for the former RTA site in Rosebery after Sydney City Council commissioned an independent assessment of the plan that found the proposed mega-church and adjacent office block exceeded the height and scale allowed. The study also established that the proposed entertainment-centre-sized church would generate significant volumes of traffic and parking that would far exceed the capabilities of the surrounding streets writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
A manicured elephant? Plans for CUB site revealed
Australian musician Chris Gillespie sings a song about an M2 Cockatoo who’s disgusted to find his peaceful bushland home turned into a motorway. Walking home from the latest community information session at the old Carlton United Brewery site on Wednesday July 9, I couldn’t help humming the disgruntled cockatoo’s ballad. The Fraser Company’s proposed development won’t uproot any people or wildlife from their home, but the bird’s sensation of irrelevance in the face of progress is the same writes Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
Recycling workshop back in business
The Waterloo Recycling Workshop (WRW) was established in 1995. Founded by Cathy Westley as a public housing tenant initiative, it now operates (having closed its doors for a brief period) under the auspices of the Factory Community Centre in Waterloo writes Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
Future is bleak for blacksmiths at ATP
Approval of the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s re-development in the Australian Technology Park and North Eveleigh will provide 1,260 new homes for the South Sydney area, but already it has forced some of the existing residents out of their places of business writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
Forget about flavour and paint the town beige
In the extract below Elizabeth Farrelly in her Sydney Morning Herald column of 6th August 2008 refers to Wrought Artworks.
Sartor Should Save Blacksmith’s Shop
Minister for Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor should step in to save the historic blacksmiths shop at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) at Redfern, according to NSW Greens MP, Sylvia Hale in this media release of 6th August 2008.
Sydney Council elections - four years on and Clover wants more
Four years in office has failed to dampen Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s enthusiasm for the job, so the independent councillor and state MP is ready to work to keep her title in September’s local government elections reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 6th August 2008.
Brian Dunnett Replies to Robert Domm on North Eveleigh
Below are some comments from Brian Dunnett on a letter that is currently on the Redwatch site from Robert Domm in reply to an article that has been written in response to the SMH's "Battle Stations for North Eveleigh" on August 2 and Brian Dunnett's letter "Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past" that was published in the SMH on the 4th August.
RWA Letter to Editor on North Eveleigh & ATP Blacksmith
This letter was submitted by Robert Domm to the Sydney Morning Herald in response to the SMH's "Battle Stations for North Eveleigh" on August 2 and Brian Dunnett's letter "Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past".
Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past
The efforts of the head of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, Robert Domm, to evict the blacksmith from the heritage Eveleigh Technology site should alarm all communities in NSW - not just heritage supporters ("Battle stations for Eveleigh," August 2-3) writes Brian Dunnett in this letter to the Sydney Morning Herald of 4th August 2008.
Children, as young as 12, using illegal drug ice
SYDNEY children as young as 12 are experimenting with the highly dangerous drug ice because they see it as glamorous, senior police say reports Kara Lawrence in The Daily Telegraph of 4th August 2008.
North Eveleigh campus could mean homes for cash-strapped students
Students would have a better chance of finding an affordable home if Sydney University’s North Eveleigh campus becomes a reality reports Andrew Newman in City news of 3rd August 2008..
Last-ditch effort to save a piece of rail history
Wrought Artworks is holding an Open Day on August 17 to muster support for the ATP-based blacksmithing business, threatened with eviction by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports Anne Von Fehrn & Alex McDonald in City news of 3rd August 2008
Bulldozing the past
Down-at-heel housing estates in the inner city and on the western fringes are fighting back, writes Michael Duffy in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008.
Souths likely to reject ban on pokies
THE grandiose vision of the Rabbitohs NRL part-owner Peter Holmes a Court to have a poker machine-free South Sydney leagues club is expected to be scuppered at a vote of the membership on August 17 reports Andrew Clennell State Political Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008.
Battle stations for Eveleigh
In a city bursting at the seams, everyone has designs on this Redfern icon, writes Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008.
Introducing Robert Kok - CoS Councillor
Robert Kok was elected as a Councilor of the City of Sydney Council on the Clover Moore Independents ticket and below we reproduce an Introduction to him as a candidate from Clover's enews of Friday 1 August 2008 - No. 408
What next for North Eveleigh?
This item from CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 1 August 2008 - No. 408 follows up from the Community Forum of 26th july 2008.
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