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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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- Tunnel vision now affects arts precinct
- A DAY after the state government announced it would preserve a heritage neighbourhood in Newtown by moving a planned rail tunnel, a community group has raised fears about the future of a popular arts precinct writes Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 31 August 2010.
- North Eveleigh Site and City Relief Line
- The announcement by Transport NSW (TNSW) on 29 August 2010 that they will not require private property in and around Leamington Avenue is a welcome relief but the statement does not clarify the situation for the adjoining North Eveleigh site writes Geoff Turnbull from REDWatch on 31 August 2010.
- TNSW Community Update August 2010
- Transport NSW advises that, following extensive analysis, no properties in Leamington Avenue and its vicinity will be needed for construction of the City Relief Line, which is part of the Government’s Western Express Program reports this Community Update in August 2010 from Transport NSW.
- Western Express - Leamington Ave Properties
- The NSW Government today confirmed no acquisition of Leamington Avenue properties will be required as part of the Western Express project. Minister for Transport John Robertson said the Government had moved swiftly to provide certainty for local residents reports this media release from Minister for Transport John Robertson MLC on 29 August 2010.
- Leamington Avenue Saved
- The residents of Leamington Avenue, Holdsworth and Pines Streets, Newtown, are extremely relieved the State Government has announced on 29 August 2010 that it will not be compulsorily acquiring their heritage homes to make way for the City Relief Line reports this media release from Save Leamington Avenue Inc on 29 August 2010.
- RWA Response to REDWatch Discussion Paper on Planning for the Redevelopment of Redfern & Waterloo Public Housing
- The following response to the REDWatch Discussion paper was received from RWA CEO Roy Wakelin-King on 26 August 2010. It has been added to the REDWatch site to ensure the RWA's comments about the paper are also available to those reading the REDWatch paper.
- REDWatch Discussion Paper on Public Housing Redevelopment
- REDWatch's Discussion Paper of 23 August 2010 discusses a recent HNSW meeting “Hava Cuppa with a Designa” and raises some key questions about the future of Redfern & Waterloo public housing and ask: is “Social Mix” a mantra or a resourced solution? The paper aims to encourage discussion about the planning for the coming redevelopment of Redfern & Waterloo public housing.
- Allocations to the new Housing development in Redfern East
- The following information about housing in the new Redfern East redevelopment situated at Philip, Walker, Kettle and Morehead Streets Redfern was provided to prospective public tenants. While the ballot is now past we are providing this information on the REDWatch website so people can see the allocation and ballot processes used for this redevelopment as this gives some indication of the process that may be followed as other parts of Redfern and Waterloo are redeveloped. The Question and Answers also provide some basic information about the new public housing aspect of the redevelopment.
- Social Mix does not cure poverty, inequality or inequity
- Social Mix is a generic buzzword term used by various governments to disguise their policy failures. Failures that have resulted in Poverty, Inequality and Inequity becoming endemic in some sectors of the community. The term is used to create images of manufactured nirvana in the suburbs and to portray those proposing its implementation as champions of social justice writes Ross Smith in TSN's Rimfire Review of 16 August 2010.
- $9.8 Million Redfern Health Centre Officially Opened
- Redfern and Waterloo residents will now have access to improved health services with the official opening of the new $9.8 million Redfern Health Centre - a single, central facility to provide a range of community health, drug and alcohol, and mental health services to the local community reports this media release from the Premier of NSW on 5 August 2010.
- Last stand for Newtown's 'three proud people'
- It is a tribute to one of the 20th century's most renowned protests: a mural facing the railway tracks in Newtown showing two black medallists giving a defiant raised-fist salute at the 1968 Olympics, and the Australian athlete Peter Norman who stood proudly beside them. A fight is now on to save the mural as the state government considers demolishing the house it is painted on, and its neighbours, to build a rail tunnel reports Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald of 27 July 2010.
- CBD Metro compensation mess
- Chifley Arcade shop owners are trapped in failing businesses while their rejected CBD Metro compensation claims are reviewed by Justice Paul Stein QC reports Aimee Scott ion Central of 27 July 2010 [Leamington Ave residents are watching such experiences closely with their own potential claims].
- Another Brick in the Wall for Public Housing
- A mixed public/private redevelopment plan has gone horribly wrong reports Stephen Pascoe in the Age of 27 July 2010. [REDWatch Comment - Given the similarities between what is proposed for Redfern Waterloo and this Victorian project the issues raised in this article need to be carefully considered in the planning of the redevelopment of Redfern and Waterloo public housing estates to ensure the problems found in this Victorian mixed redevelopment are not repeated here.]
- Tunnel proposal brings digs to a halt
- Residents near Eveleigh rail yards face an anxious wait, writes Kelsey Munro in the Sydney Morning Herald of 22 July 2010.
- Learning from our mistakes
- Has the NSW Government learnt anything from the Metro debacle? If you ask residents in Leamington Avenue, Pine and Holdsworth streets at Newtown in Sydney's inner west, their answer would be "no" reports Kylie Simmonds on ABC News on 16 July 2010.
- RWA Update – 13 July 2010
- This RWA Update Covers: NEWS - Funding available for community groups / Paving the way for pedestrians and cyclists / 2010 Christmas banner competition / Redfern Park and Oval receives architecture award / Local schoolboy learns RWA work / Heritage plans at ATP / $42 million for Indigenous Arts / New Services Map - DEVELOPMENT NEWS - Abercrombie and Cleveland St, Redfern application / Cafe at 8 Central Avenue, Australian Technology Park - WHAT’S ON - 13 July - Redfern Neighbourhood Advisory Board meeting / 13 July - Microsoft RISE! Free Making “IT” Work for Your Business Training / 30 July - Monthly Informal Gathering / Eveleigh Farmers’ Market – every Saturday 8am to 1pm / Artisans’ Market – 1st Sunday of the month, 10am to 3pm
- Leave Leamington Alone: Hands off our Homes say Newtown locals
- Leamington Ave, Newtown, residents won’t give up their heritage homes to RailCorp without a fight reports Aimee Scott in Central on 13 July 2010.
- Vic: Premier, minister refuse to say sorry for rail-link bungle
- [Residents in Leamington Ave are hoping they do not have to experience what these people in Footscray (Melbourne) are experiencing in a similar situation - REDWatch]. This article by Paul Austin & Richard Willingham is from the Age of 13 July 2010.
- Jesuit School Plans for Aboriginal Children in Redfern
- A new, tuition-free Jesuit primary school for Aboriginal children is set to open its doors in Sydney in 2011, providing disadvantaged children with a quality, holistic education which responds to the needs of local families and draws from the students' own culture reports Catherine Marshall in the CathNews on 8 July 2010.
- Houses on the line – The Castle rerun?
- MACDONALDTOWN : Residents in Leamington Avenue near Macdonaldtown Station were reeling after a leaflet came through their letterboxes headed: “Your House may be Resumed, Help Stop It!” It was the first anyone knew that the houses they were buying, selling and renovating may soon be resumed. Leamington Ave and surrounding streets are part of the Pines Estate Heritage Conservation Area which is listed on the Heritage Register reports Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of July 2010.
