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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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- Chippendale residents eager to ditch ‘least leafy suburb’ tag
- When it comes to public parks, Lindsay Charles reckons Chippendale would get the wooden spoon reports Patrick Billings in City news on 17th August 2008.
- Election profile: Trevor Davies
- Trevor Davies has been an integral member of the South Sydney community for the past thirty years. He's been secretary of the Darlington branch of the ALP since the early '80s, and, at 52, has decided to run for City of Sydney on the ALP ticket reports Nick Lupi in City news on 17th August 2008.
- Community divided over Redfern Park war relic
- A World War Two anti-aircraft gun is here to stay, despite some community opposition, as Redfern Park’s upgrade nears completion reports Dheepthi Namasivayam in City news of 16th August 2008.
- Urban art archive in jeopardy
- The home of Redfern artist Gordon Syron, 66, and his wife Elaine, 63, is to be sold as part of the proposed North Eveleigh development. Now their archive of indigenous art and photography spanning three decades desperately needs a home Daniel Bishton in City news on 15th August 2008.
- How South Sydney's no-pokies leagues club plan died
- ON Sunday morning fewer than 100 people will gather in Redfern Town Hall to end South Sydney's proposal for a no-pokies leagues club reports Josh Massoud in the The Daily Telegraph of August 13, 2008.
- Communication Breakdown
- AN indigenous art collection valued in the millions could be lost after negotiations between its owners and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority broke down writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 13th August 2008.
- Michael Clarke letter to SMH of 10th August 2008
- The following letter was written to the SMH but unpublished. Michael Clarke was involved in 2006 as the Chairman of the Engineering Heritage Committee in correspondence with the Minister over arrangements for Heritage preservation at the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop.
- Brewery site plan is heritage threat: locals
- THE character and culture of inner-city Chippendale is under threat, say residents, from a proposal by the developer of a giant urban renewal project at Broadway to increase the amount of floor space on the site by 10 per cent writes Wendy Frew Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 8, 2008.
- Anvil chorus sparks an overwrought row
- IN BAY Two of the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, a scene from another century unfolds writes Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 8, 2008.
- Tussle over blacksmith heritage
- BLACKSMITHS in Eveleigh, Sydney, are campaigning against the State Government’s move to evict them from their workshop. For the past 17 years, Wrought Artworks has had free use of the furnace workshop in Bay Two of the Australian Technology Park. Using ancient blacksmith techniques, metal is melted in a furnace and banged into shape by a steam-powered hammer reports www.metalworker.com.au.
- Introducing Di Tornai - CoS Councillor
- Di Tornai was elected as a Councilor of the City of Sydney Council on the Clover Moore Independents ticket and below we reproduce an Introduction to her as a candidate from Clover's enews of Friday 8 August 2008 - No. 409.
- Under the Hammer
- Is the state's valuable heritage being put under the hammer by a State Government more interested in forging relationships with developers? Asks Quentin Dempster on ABC’s Stateline NSW on 8th August 2008. The report from Reporter Nick Grimm is in the broadcast transcript below.
- Redfern’s new police commander
- Commander Luke Freudenstein, the present officer in charge of Redfern Police is not a total stranger to the South Sydney area having earlier served for four years in the Newtown command. After working as the Crime Manager in Manly and also in a wider regional area of police work, he spent two months in Kings Cross and decided that he definitely preferred the work relating to a local command. He has been appointed to the Redfern Command for six months, after which a more permanent decision will be made about his future writes Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Heritage heresy
- Frank Sartor’s plans to demolish some of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a site of world heritage significance, is heritage heresy: they will transform Redfern into “Redfern Heights”, and create a vanilla society writes Andrew Woodhouse in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Ending homelessness - A new focus for the Mercy Foundation
- The Mercy Foundation which has been based in Waterloo for over a decade has been an advocate for many groups of people and has provided financial support for the implementation of projects covering a wide range of social justice initiatives reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- City of Sydney Council Elections ’08 - Candidate profiles
- With the Council elections just over a month away (September 13), our writers have been interviewing the candidates. We’ll have profiles again next issue writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Volunteers help to provide shelter for homeless
- For more than 30 years the Cana Communities, a volunteer-based organisation that receives no government funding, has been offering services to people in need. Its focus is on people “most in need” – suffering from loneliness, mental illness, addictions, homelessness – and alienated within society. Cana operates a café in Redfern, several community homes in and around the inner city, as well as “church shelters” providing emergency overnight accommodation writes Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Cafe of the Month: Mayan magic at Meriton
- The very musical and flamboyant Roberto Orellana of the Mayan Cafe, situated at 32 Dank Street (corner of Dank and South Dowling streets) Waterloo, invites you to experience the most random colourful and cultural experience you'll find within our community writes Scott Winter in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- “If I go a week without drawing, I feel bored and worthless” - Artist Profile: Chantal Labbe
- Artist Chantal Labbe cannot pinpoint when she first started drawing but her need for creative expression was recognised early on by some insightful school teachers. “From the age of 10 or 11, I was allowed to draw throughout classes in school. They realised it helped me to focus and pay attention. The deal was I could draw, as long as I was listening and drawing something related to what we were learning,” she recalls writes Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Young Sonia stands for parliament
- Sonia Zhou has done what few people her age, and for that matter few within the general population, will ever get to do in their lifetime. She has sat in NSW parliamentary chambers writes Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
