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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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- Tea-lights, sweets and frangipanis for Hindu festival
- Tea-light candles and frangipani flowers decorated the entrance to Redfern Community Centre on November 9 when about 100 people attended a celebration of the Festival of Lights – Deepavali reports the December 2007 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Redfern rapper’s life honoured
- A funeral service for 25-year-old musician and producer Nathan Bridger was held at St Saviour’s Church in Redfern on Friday November 23. Mr Bridger passed away earlier in the week after suffering burns in a fire that engulfed the top floors of the former London Tavern on Regent Street reports Andrew Collis in the December 2007 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Down and out in Newtown
- If you happen to be strolling down King Street on a Monday and you spy a barbecue outside the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, then pop over and grab a sausage sanger for a small donation reports Nicholas McCallum in the December 2007 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Waterloo Storm warning: “We’ll be back again next year!”
- Rowena Welsh-Jarrett has played football – rugby union and rugby league – since she was nine years old reports Andrew Collis in the December 2007 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Lyall kicks on after Idol act
- Lyall Adonis's turn as one of Australian Idol's top 24 this year put the singer/song- writer in the public view and gave his music a brief window of exposure writes Flip Byrnes on the Southern Courier of 4th December 2007.
- Global Television announces move to new TV complex at Australian Technology Park
- Australia’s largest independent facilitator of broadcast television, Global Television has announced it will move to the new Television Production Complex at Australian Technology Park in Redfern reports this Global Television media release of 3rd December 2007.
- Construction Starts on Landmark Redfern Project
- Work has officially begun on a major new media hub at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) in Redfern, Planning Minister and Sartor Minister for Redfern Waterloo announced today (3 December 2007) reports his media release.
- National Indigenous Development Centre
- The National Indigenous Development Centre has received approval from the Minister of Planning reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- Waterloo’s Summer on the Green – Friday 7th December 2007
- Local residents and community workers are proposing to hold an all day celebration entitled ‘Waterloo’s summer on the Green’ reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- The changing face of Redfern and Waterloo
- With the call for tenders to redevelop Rachel Foster Hospital, residents are seeing the loss of yet another public facility, this time to the private housing market reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- DOH POTTERY TEAM GOES FUNCTIONAL
- John Perry Team leader at Redfern has advised the RWN of some important changes. The Department’s Clients Service Team managing the Surry Hills and Redfern properties has undergone a change in managing workloads reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- Volunteer Formal Recognition is Coming
- RedWater news reports in its December 2007 issue that it has been informed of plans that the Department of Housing is to form a Volunteer policy giving official recognition of Volunteers within social housing. Minister of Housing stated in a letter “that the Department values the significant contribution made by volunteers in our society by contributing to the development of vibrant and healthy communities.”
- Waterloo Green Action Plan has arrived !
- RWN reported in our last edition that Waterloo residents and frontline workers with the assistance of HCAP formed an action group reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- The Redfern & Inner City Home Support Service
- R.I.C.H.S.S is a community agency whose role is to provide assistance such as social support, home visiting etc reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- The Factory helps “let the dog Out”
- The Factory Community Centre recently worked with Our Lady of Mt Carmel School in Waterloo on the ‘let the Dog out’ Project reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- School happens on model for indigenous learning
- A SYDNEY private school believes it has struck pedagogical gold with an innovative solution to educating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children reports Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of November 23, 2007.
- Save Erko - DA Lodged for 2 Story Supermarket Building in Erskineville Village – Closes 15th December 2007
- Big business is coming to town. Which do you prefer? Coles? Woolworths? McDonalds? A Development Application has been lodged for a big 2 storey supermarket on the corner of Erskineville Road and Gowrie Street reports this media release from Village Friends in Erskineville.
- Family gathering and rally on NT Intervention - 18th November, 2007 10am
- On Saturday 24th a new Federal Government will be decided. This meeting and rally, one week out from the election, is our chance to ensure Aboriginal voices are heard loud and clear and the injustices of the Government’s invasion of Aboriginal communities in the NT are known about.
- Souths back but are the fans?
- The South Sydney Rabbitohs, one of the founding clubs of rugby league, remains the most successful team in the 100-year history of the annual NRL competition with 20 priemiership titles to their name reports Emily Laurence in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Language and skills prepare students for brighter future
- Chatting happily in a corner of Prince Alfred Park in Sydney's Surry Hills, they look like a typical bunch of cheerful, multicultural Australian kids reports Arsito Hidayatullah in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
