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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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- Works on film, online - Artist Profile: Curious Works
- Shakthi Sivanathan is the creator of Curious Works, an independent education and technology arts program that collaborates with communities using digital media and the arts. The programs offer communities ways of sharing and connecting with other people, as they present the projects online through the medium of film reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Studio for artists and passers-by
- Shopfront Studio is located at 152 Redfern Street. The shopfront is a studio/gallery space where local artists can create and display their art. People passing by get to witness the creative process of the artists at work reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Bust or boom, businesses adapt
- The sleek designs of Darlington-based Interprojects were a trait that placed them a cut above other design and construction companies in Sydney. However, their elegant designs were not innovative enough to protect them from the financial woes that are facing everyone else, as the company went into receivership in October this year. All but three of its staff have been let go reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Leasing ATP – Heritage Lost?
- In its recent mini-budget, the NSW Government announced its plans to privatise the Australian Technology Park (ATP) – 13.9 hectares of industrial space within cooee of the city centre reports Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Ban on bill posters an “attack on free speech”
- The City of Sydney has banned bill posters from the inner city. Offending organisations will now face fines of up to $1,500 per poster, and individuals charged $750 for putting up posters. Commercial, political and community organisations will be targeted, as Sydney City Council promises to follow through with prosecuting illegal postering under the NSW Protection of the Environment Operations Act. Greens Councillors, Irene Doutney and Chris Harris, have expressed their disappointment, claiming the Council's new campaign is a “gross attack on freedom of speech” reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008.
- Moore's donor vote broke council code
- THE Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, has denied she acted inappropriately after apparently breaching the council's code of conduct by participating in a decision to buy a property from her largest individual political donor reports Malcolm Knox in the Sydney Morning herald of 1 December 2008.
- RailCorp: Large Erecting Shop retained for continuing rail heritage purposes
- In the extract below RailCorp CEO provides one person who wrote to the Minister for transport about the Large Erecting Shop with some encouraging news that “RailCorp's plan for the Large Erecting Shop is consistent with the Friends of Eveleigh proposal that the workshop be retained for continuing rail heritage purposes”. The letter was dated 1 December 2008.
- Early resignition from RWA CEO
- Redfern-Waterloo Authority CEO Robert Domm has resigned from his role with the government appointed body almost a year earlier than anticipated reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on line on 1 December 2008.
- Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales - Report Tabled
- The Chair of the Social Issues Committee, the Hon Ian West MLC, today tabled the Committee’s Final Report of its 18-month inquiry into overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales reports this media release from the Hon Ian West MLC on 27 November 2008.
- Pub with Dark Past Celebrates 170th Birthday
- Iconic Sydney venue the Cauliflower Hotel is to celebrate its 170th birthday on December 1, with the hotel’s licence dating back to 1838 writes Annette Shailer on theshout.com.au.
- Charles Kernan Reserve Darlington Design Plans – Until 12 December 2008
- The City of Sydney have displayed the proposed plans for the redesign of Charles Kernan Park at the corner of Abercrombie and Shepherd Streets Darlington. Two proposed designs are being exhibited for comment. Please make your comments to Council if you were unable to attend the exhibition on 15th November 2008.
- Engines started on Green Square
- DEVELOPERS and investors have welcomed the opening of the $1.7 billion Green Square project, saying that the South Sydney precinct had become stagnant reports Carolyn Cummins Commercial Property Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of November 22, 2008.
- Council reluctant to expand free shuttle service
- Council will not increase its funding for the popular Village to Village shuttle bus next year, despite increased passenger numbers which have meant the free service is now stretched to the limit reports Alexandra Beech in City news of 22 November 2008.
- Eveleigh Farmers' and Artisans' Market Opens 13th December
- Eveleigh Farmers' and Artisans' Market is to open in Historic Sydney Building Inaugural Season Event. Traditional Christmas Farmers’ Market Saturday 13 December 8am – 1.30pm.
- Next Step taken on $1.7 Billion Green Square Town Centre
- Mirvac/Leighton Properties has been selected to partner with Landcom to deliver the first phase of the $1.7 billion Green Square Town Centre reports this media release from Minister for Planning Kristina Keneally on 17 November 2008.
- The Pemulwuy forward
- The traffic in front of Redfern Station flows roughly down the same trajectory. People stream out of the ticket gates, then take sharp left turns down Redfern Street in the direction of Sydney University, emphatically avoiding eye-contact with the stretch of dilapidated terraces between Eveleigh, Vine and Louise Streets report Rebecca Zhou in City News of 16 November 2008.
- New property star on horizon
- THE Australian Technology Park at Redfern is to become one of the prime property sales in NSW, after the State Government put it on the market this weekreports Carolyn Cummins Commercial Property Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald of 15 November 2008.
- Waterloo Youth Facility Refurbishment
- A proposal for a green "crown roof" is among the sustainability features included in the concept design for the refurbishment of the Waterloo Youth Facility, which will be considered by Council's Cultural and Community Services Committee on Monday reports Clover's eNews of 14 November 2008 .
- Gallery on the go looks for a new home
- Gordon Syron's most famous painting, 1978's Judgement By His Peers, depicts a personal fantasy of sorts: a black man being tried before a panel of black men reports Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 13 November 2008.
- Waterloo Safe, say Police
- REDFERN police have hit back at suggestions that Waterloo is an unsafe area for international students - an emotional claim made by the mother of a woman who died after falling from an apartment balcony on Hunter Street recently reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 12 November 2008.
