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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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- Supermarket development rejected by court
- Relief for some, as a community’s battle to keep The Hive in Erskineville free of development, comes to an end. An appeal by developer, Arto Management, was unsuccessful in the Land and Environment Court. The Council had earlier rejected the application for a two-storey supermarket on Erskineville Road, as a result of the proposal’s scale, intensity, traffic generation and adverse impact on the village reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Volunteers sought for street count
- The next City of Sydney Street Count will take place on Tuesday morning February 17 reports the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Activists’ manual launched in Alexandria
- A new manual explaining the rights of political activists was launched by Labor Councillor Meredith Burgmann on Human Rights Day, December 10 reports Shaun Walsh in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Cyclists’ choice: risk it or rot
- When westbound cyclists reach the intersection of Wilson Street at Erskineville Road, Newtown, they face a Catch-22: The traffic lights are designed for the previous car-only use and there are no lights allowing bikes to exit Wilson street by Michael Gormley in City News of 4 February 2009.
- Night of the Black Stars lights up The Block
- Aboriginal Boxing, basketball and culture will make a triumphant return to the Aboriginal heartland of Redfern on Black Friday, Friday 13 February, as part of a major community event to raise funds for the Indigenous Sporting Academy and Indigenous Boxing Academy reports City news on 4th February 2009.
- Bunnies Hop Home
- SOUTHS supporters are lobbying for their beloved Rabbitohs to return to Redfern Oval for good in the lead-up to a trial game at the ground this Saturday reports Angus Street in Central of 4 February 2009.
- Eveleigh's Still Hidden Heritage
- Some of the finest historic railway engineering workshops in the world are located just south of Sydney's Central Railway Station adjoining Redfern Railway Station (originally called Eveleigh) writes Graham Quint of National Trust NSW in the February 2009 issue of Trust News Australia.
- Heritage Tourism
- The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP Australian Minister for the Environment Heritage and the Arts writes on the importance of Heritage Tourism in Trust News Australia February 2009. [Heritage Groups have asked for a Heritage Tourism Plan to be put in place for the Former Eveleigh Railyards – REDWatch]
- Green light for rail yard high-rises
- THE State Government is expected to release up to 10 hectares of land to the commercial and residential property market within months, having approved a plan to convert heritage buildings at Redfern's North Eveleigh into high-rise towers reports Wendy Frew the Sydney Morning Herald's Urban Affairs Reporter on January 31, 2009.
- Minister Approves North Eveleigh Concept Plan
- The Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo, Kristina Keneally, today announced she has approved a concept plan for the redevelopment of the historic former Eveleigh Railway Yards site in Redfern reports this news release of 30th January 2009 from the Minister's office.
- PUSH FOR HERITAGE GROUP
- In this letter of 28th January 2009 REDWatch Spokesperson Geoff Turnbull responds to Central’s "Grand plans for Eveleigh" (Central, January 14) about Eveleigh Heritage.
- Government extends deadline for wages
- Aboriginal people have been given more time to claim some $68 million of “stolen wages” held by the State Government writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009.
- The new generation
- REDFERN’s Binowee Bayles is representative of a new generation of local Aborigines: smart, articulate and possessed with a proud sense of Aboriginal identity writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009.
- Change sweeps The Block
- THE inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States might have seemed a world away for some of us, but for Redfern’s indigenous community, the winds of change were blowing close to home writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009.
- Full house sign up for Redfern clash
- SUMMER may be only half over, but rugby league has its first sell-out of 2009 with South Sydney's return to Redfern against Wests Tigers to be played before a full house reports AAP in The Australian of January 26, 2009.
- 2 of US - Gordon Syron & Elaine Pelot Syron
- Aboriginal artist, activist and art curator Gordon Syron, 67, first met his American documentary photographer wife, Elaine, 63, in 1982, after he was released from prison. They are the "keepers" of an extensive collection of indigenous art and artefacts, for which they are seeking a permanent home reports this interview by Beth Jessup in the SMH Good Weekend section the 2 of US of January 24 2009.
- YABUN 2009 - 26 Jan - Celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures
- With a dynamic program that brings politics, art and craft, literature, music and lots of activities for kids together, Yabun is shaping up to be bigger and better in 2009. Back at Victoria Park for the third year, Yabun has grown into the space and promises to deliver a dynamic and exciting day for all the family reports this media release from Gadigal Information Service.
- Americans celebrate Obama inauguration in Sydney
- BRITTANY Spencer was a long way from home, but she wasn't about to let a little thing like a 15-hour time difference stop her from witnessing the Obama inauguration reports Michelle Cazzulino in the Telegraph of January 21, 2009.
- Broadway set to become a ‘windswept high rise canyon’
- Chippendale and Ultimo residents have to put up with yet another large scale development on Broadway which will include permanent closure of Jones Street and an increase in high rise buildings writes Anne von Fehrn in City News of 21 January 2009.
- Service not Delivered - Letter
- In this letter in the 21 January 2009 Central Ross Smith responds to an earlier Central article on Housing NSW "Sewer pipe fix delayed".
