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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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- Battle stations for Eveleigh
- In a city bursting at the seams, everyone has designs on this Redfern icon, writes Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008.
- Introducing Robert Kok - CoS Councillor
- Robert Kok was elected as a Councilor of the City of Sydney Council on the Clover Moore Independents ticket and below we reproduce an Introduction to him as a candidate from Clover's enews of Friday 1 August 2008 - No. 408
- What next for North Eveleigh?
- This item from CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 1 August 2008 - No. 408 follows up from the Community Forum of 26th july 2008.
- Your Word: Who controls Babana?
- The independence, or not, of Aboriginal organisations is always an important part of how we perceive them and also how we deal with people who represent those organisations writes Don Clark in Babana News August 2008.
- Racism helps to ease the whitewash of Redfern
- I'm walking the dog. It's evening rush hour, near Redfern station. A young couple wobbles by like escapees from a three-legged race, giggling because she has new, less-than-sensible shoes and at day's end can barely walk. "Take them off," I suggest. He glares, wondering perhaps which "them" I mean. I smile, add "go barefoot". He focuses momentarily, decides I'm harmless (wrong), answers for her: "Not round here. Not with the Abos everywhere, all the needles in the streets. Be all right when they get rid of the blacks" writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 30, 2008.
- Block Party a Success
- Saturday’s Reclaim the Block festival has been declared a success by organisers and residents, who wanted to reclaim their streets from the drugs and antisocial behaviour the area is known for reports the Central of 30th July 2008.
- ‘Mainstream’ Mallard
- SYDNEY Liberal councillor Shayne Mallard has positioned himself as the mainstream alternative to a trio of "big-spending left-wing politicians" vying for the Lord Mayoralty reports Menios Constantinou in Central of 30th July 2008.
- Made up to shine
- A Hillsong self-esteem program which encourages girls as young as 10 to wear make-up and aspire to professions including waitressing and hairdressing is being taught in Redfern-Waterloo schools, alarming teachers, parents and health workers reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 30 July 2008.
- Sartor gives top job to ex-chief of staff
- THE Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, has appointed one of his former chiefs-of-staff as the new boss of the government agency in charge of billions of dollars worth of land on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour reports Jano Gibson Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney morning Herald of July 28, 2008.
- Lord Mayor Letter to Residents about North Eveleigh
- This letter was distributed in the lead up to the Saturday, 26 July 2pm meeting at CarriageWorks Track 8 about the proposed meeting and the City's concerns about the RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan.
- Burgmann Comes Out Swinging
- LABOR lord mayoral candidate Dr Meredith Burgmann said she believed Sydney Council needed a major shift in policy focus reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 23 July 2008.
- Protests: End income quarantining!
- The unjust quarantining of Aboriginal people’s Centrelink benefits, enforced as part of the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention, has been labelled by some as the intervention’s most destructive element Reports Jay Fletcher in Green Left of 19th July 2008.
- National Trust blasts the RWA
- The National Trust has thrown its support behind Wrought Artworks, the blacksmithing workshop at Australian Technology Park (ATP) threatened with eviction by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports Alex McDonald in City news of 19th July 2008.
- The brutal reality about halls of higher earning
- The university, says John Ralston Saul, is "where civilisation's knowledge is divided up into exclusive territories", where academics daily invent "dialects sufficiently hermetic" to preclude internecine seepage. Each faculty, discipline or research team thus becomes a kind of Da Vinci Code cryptex, and university politics an arcane strain of gang warfare writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 16, 2008.
- RWA Eveleigh Pedestrian / Bike Bridge on Exhibition – Until 15th August 2008
- The Department of Planning have placed on public exhibition the RWA’s proposal for a pedestrian & bike bridge, which the RWA call the Eveleigh Heritage Walk (EHW). The bridge no longer provides the link from CarriageWorks to near the new Channel 7 building as proposed by the RWA in its preliminary application. The bridge now connects the southern end of the ATP to North Eveleigh close to Redfern Station as indicated in the RWA’s recent North Eveleigh Concept Plan in which the bridge featured but was not included.
- Candidates Keep it Green
- GREENS councillor Chris Harris is again running for Lord Mayor in September's elections, with newcomer Irene Doutney also aiming for a seat on Sydney Council reports Jennifer Bennett in the central of 16hJuly 2008.
- Voters will decide on Sydney Wards
- VOTERS will have the power to decide whether they want Sydney Council to introduce a wards system at September's elections reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the central of 16th july 2008.
- Redfern to rival Pyrmont as a hub for media
- REDFERN'S commercial property sector is being expanded with the $200 million development 8 Central Avenue, being undertaken by Rebel Property Group and the Seven Network reports Carolyn Cummins Commercial Property Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 12, 2008.
- Creative collective swings into action
- The vast industrial spaces of the CarriageWorks arts centre in Eveleigh are crammed with psychedelic light shows, shadow puppets and aerialists swinging from scaffolding. Since last week, the venue has hosted the second annual Underbelly Public Arts Lab, where Sydney's young artists create work and develop ideas to be shown at the Underbelly Festival at the weekend Louise Schwartzkoff in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 11, 2008.
- Space-age development plan sends some locals into orbit
- GEORGE JETSON would approve but a developer's vision for futuristic apartment blocks on the Carlton United Brewery site in Broadway has drawn a mixed response from residents reports Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 11, 2008.
