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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 fixation that improvement means tall buildings
- SMH Letters February 14, 2006
- Revamp for Redfern ignores railway heritage - 13 February 2006
- Bonnie Malkin SMH Urban Affairs Reporter reports SYDNEY may lose a large part of its railway heritage under plans to revamp Redfern and Waterloo, the National Trust has warned.
- Trust worried Redfern Waterloo Authority Plan is on the wrong track
- The following Media release was issued by the National Trust on 13 February concening the RWA Draft Built environment Plan.
- Souths' oval to be razed - 11 February 2006
- By JOSH MASSOUD in the Daily Telegraph reports SYDNEY City Council will spend $500,000 to demolish the contaminated Redfern Oval - and the Rabbitohs won't stop them.
- New plan on the Block unwelcome to owners - 10 February 2006
- Bonnie Malkin and Sherrill Nixon Sydney Morning Herald February 10, 2006 report that: THE symbolic heart of Sydney's Aboriginal community - the Block in Redfern - will be transformed into a bustling commercial hub under a State Government plan to attract investors and reverse the fortunes of the troubled inner-city site.
- Draft Built Environment Plan to Drive Jobs Growth in Redfern & Waterloo - 10 February 2006
- Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald 10 February 2006 No. 2 on the release of the RWA Built Environment Plan.
- Firth Calls on Sartor to Rethink Pemulwuy Decision - 10 February 2006
- Media Release from Verity Firth Deputy Lord Mayor, City of Sydney 10 February, 2006.
- CITY SUPPORTS MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL - 10 February 2006
- The City of Sydney has contributed $12,500 to Midnight Basketball for Redfern-Waterloo, an innovative sports program which aims to give young people life skills while diverting them from crime and anti-social behaviour.
- Aboriginal anger as Block rezoned - 10 February 2006
- John Stapleton in The Australian reports that LONGSTANDING tensions between Sydney's Redfern Aboriginal community and the NSW Government escalated yesterday after Planning Minister Frank Sartor announced that Redfern's Block, a centre of Aboriginal activism for more than 30 years, would be rezoned for commercial use.
- Teenagers shoot hoops to avoid the weekend's pitfalls - 9 February 2006
- Bonnie Malkin Urban Affairs Reporter Sydney Morning Herald reports: REDFERN has a new weapon in the fight against crime: basketball. The Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Frank Sartor, and the West Sydney Razorbacks have launched the Midnight Basketball Tournament to lure young people off the streets and into Alexandria Park Community School to play the game.
- Sartor changes zoning of the Block to commercial - 9 February 2006
- Aboriginal Housing Company Media release 9 February 2006.
- Redfern redevelopment plan not about moving Aborigines: Minister - 9 February 2006
- The final stage of the New South Wales Government's plan to redevelop Redfern has been released.
- City lodges application for Redfern Park
- Following Council’s commitment of $19 million to upgrade Redfern Park the City of Sydney has today lodged a Development Application (DA) to remove the dilapidated grandstand and associated structures, which have fallen into a state of disrepair.
- New Heritahe DCP Strengthens Protection
- CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 26 January 2007 - No. 331 reports that support of our heritage has increased with a new City-wide Heritage Development Control Plan (DCP) now in force to strengthen protection for distinctive features such as rows of terraces, laneways, chimneys and decorative balconies.
- Members likely to decide Rabbits' fate
- Club vows to keep politics out of any privatisation vote. Report Jonathan Dart (SydneyCentral Courier 25th January 2006 page 5)
- Development body turns one
- Redfern-Waterloo Authority's first birthday greeted with mixed reviews. Report Alexandra Walker (SydneyCentral Courier 25th January 2006 page 3)
- Airport plans skirt around state laws
- The Government was close to making public its blueprint for the corridor between the airport and the city reports Anne Davies the SMH State Political Editor in the SMH of January 2, 2006 in this article about plans for the airport development.
- Get councillors out of planning, watchdog urges
- In this SMH December 23, 2005 article, Urban Affairs Reporter Bonnie Malkin looks at the NSW ICAC discussion paper on the conflicts of interest within the planning system.
- Govt outlines Redfern jobs plan - ABC 20 December 2005
- The New South Wales Government says it hopes to create 18,000 new jobs in the Redfern-Waterloo area during the next decade.
- Hike in real estate prices - December 2005
- As the Redfern-Waterloo Authority cranks up renewal projects, HANNAH SPURR takes a look at property values in the area in The Southside News 4/2005 p 9 in December 2005.
