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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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- A question of access
- Every day, Arne Hanna of Redfern, a muso by trade who’s been in a wheelchair for 21 years, negotiates the same route in order to head out into the community to enjoy a cup of coffee at his local café reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- SSH Fast News February 2009
- Trevor Davies in The Fast News in South Sydney Herald of February 2009 covers a number of Redfern Waterloo Stories.
- Community decay, bulldozers and real estate agents – the NSW State Plan?
- The recent events at Rosemeadow are another link in a long chain of negative outcomes for Housing NSW tenant communities across the state. The history goes back to the era of the Green Bans in inner Sydney of the 1970s when the tenants sought assistance to protect their communities and housing from the assaults being made on them by the government through its agent, then known as the Housing Commission. The induced community and property destruction was then cited as the justification to sell real estate to generate income for the government reports Ross Smith in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Good turnout for RWA Christmas Market
- The RWA Christmas Market was well supported with many people turning out to take a look and buy in the lead up to Christmas. The RWA reported receiving much good feedback. Most people seemed to be walking to the site from around the area or from the station although local residents say that the area was parked out and that many were walking from cars parked around the area. Locals also say there were problems at the entrance to North Eveleigh as people tried to enter the park. The market seemed to have a big impact on the Darlington shops with café use and paper sales well down and little new passing trade reports Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Sydney’s abandonment of artists may lead to artists’ abandonment of Sydney
- Sydney is not a city that shies away from the art world. It hosts the Biennale and the Sydney Festival, two events that bring us some of the most accomplished and significant artists in the world. Both the City of Sydney and the State Government invest noteworthy funding through their policy and funding body, Arts NSW. Sydney Festival Ltd alone received $4.3 million from the Government, with one million going to the opening night when international super diva Grace Jones performed a free concert in the Domain reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Artworks in shop windows
- SLOT is a window gallery located at one of Sydney’s busiest intersections – the corner of Regent Street and Henderson Road in Redfern. It has presented in excess of 50 art exhibitions since 2003, viewed from the street 24 hours a day. To celebrate its fifth anniversary, SLOT will re-create 11 of those installations in empty shop windows along Regent Street, stretching from Wells Street to Henderson Road and creating an art walk of about one kilometre during a five-week period from January 19 to February 21 reports the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Songs with a beat – Yabun 2009
- What would a day held so special in a nation’s heart be without its lingo, colloquialisms and ironies? Well those attending “Yabun” (song with a beat) found more than you could poke a “boondi” at, much of which came from the mouths of gifted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander MCs. Wire MC and Sista Agz. Main stage at the nationally acclaimed Indigenous concert ironically held upon a tract of Gadigal land re-named after a former monarch, Victoria Park. Here, significant generic terms such as “gammon” (pulling your leg), “walung” (money) and “djilewa” (toilet) were used fleetingly throughout the day reports Adam Hill in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Survival Day on Sydney Harbour
- The SSH organised a Survival/Australia Day harbour cruise in support of the Tribal Warrior Association. We’re happy to report plans for a similar event in 2010! reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Redfern activist calls for climate justice
- The Rudd Government’s failure to adopt adequate greenhouse gas emission targets may prove devastating for Pacific Islanders, according to Aboriginal and Islander activist Patricia Corowa reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- Indigenous leaders cautious about carbon trading schemes
- Local Indigenous business leaders are enthusiastic about a carbon trading scheme as a means of emissions reduction and promoting economic development in Indigenous communities, but are warning them about signing agreements with unscrupulous traders reports Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- State taxes tough on inner-city business
- A recent report has thrown open the doors on the State tax system, exposing that NSW has the highest taxes on small business out of six Australian states reports Tara Cliffordin the South Sydney Herald of February 2009.
- 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.
