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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.
You can get up to date news by setting up a Google News alert at http://www.google.com/alerts. News Alerts will not pick up local media and some mainstream media stories which do not appear on a news website, where possible we put these stories on our website to provide wide access to the stories.
- City councillor who turned her life around
- City of Sydney councillor Irene Doutney has been in and out of mental institutions throughout her life. Having been stricken by depression and eating disorders, she sees it as her responsibility to provide a voice for those who are unable to speak for themselves reports Peach Emmett in City News on 5th October 2008.
- Redfern residents kept in the dark over asbestos removal
- More asbestos has been unearthed after construction began on the old Redfern Public school in Cope Street. Residents are concerned for their health as contamination levels exceed what was originally reported reports Patrick Billings in City News of 5th October 2008.
- Construction imminent: Redfern's new community health centre
- Construction is about to begin on the community health centre at the former Redfern police station and courthouse site. Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) general manager, Petar Vladeta said the community health centre has now been approved by the Department of Planning. “I understand that a builder has been appointed and that construction will commence shortly,” he said reports Dheepthi Namasivayam in City News on 3rd October 2008.
- Time to Rethink Redfern Waterloo Authority: REDWatch
- Resident action group REDWatch says it is time to rethink the Redfern Waterloo Authority model and what will come next in this media release of 2nd October 2008.
- The GhosTrain Project – audio-portraits of the Redfern Locomotive & Eveleigh Carriage Works
- Nigel Helyer is the current ABC Radiophonic Fellow, working on the GhosTrain project.This new project aims to create a series of audio-portraits of the Redfern Locomotive & Eveleigh Carriage Works encompassing the oral histories and acoustic ecologies of Industrial culture. The works will be broadcast on ABC Radio National and be available as Podcasts. Future phases of the project will see the audio material transformed into a Sound-Sculpture installed throughout the CarriageWorks and also developed as a GPS guided Heritage Audio Tour of the site.
- Bloc tactics at council meeting
- Councillor Marcelle Hoff has been elected Deputy Lord Mayor at a meeting dominated by Clover Moore's Independent team reports Alex McDonald in City News on 30th September 2008.
- Peter's backing out of the rabbit hole
- Peter Holmes a Court's plan for a debt-free Souths leagues club hasn't worked out that way, writes Roy Masters at LeaugeHQ and in the Sydney Morning Herald on September 20, 2008.
- Green Square planning rules on the table
- The redevelopment of Green Square has reached an important milestone, with council releasing its updated planning guidelines for the $1.7 billion project reports Alex McDonald in City News of 27th September 2008..
- Combined Chippendale Community Groups Update - 25th September 2008
- This is the text of the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups Chippendale News of 25th September 2008.
- Next step for the Pemulwuy Project
- The Pemulwuy Project has finally reached exhibition stage and it is now a waiting game for approval. According to Peter Valilis of the Aboriginal Housing Company, “the only reason the project would be knocked back is because the powers that be do not want Aboriginal people back on the Block” reports Elizabeth Hope on Webdiary on 24th September 2008.
- Pemulwuy Project On Exhibition until 24 October 2008
- The AHC’s Pemulwuy Project has finally been put on exhibition by the Department of Planning. The Details of the project can be found on the listing below …
- Operation Laser 2 - Redfern
- Operation Laser 2 was conducted in the Redfern Local Area Command on Friday September 19 with great results reports this media re;ease of Monday, 22 Sep 2008 from police media.
- Can you spot our new Premier?
- The following background article on Nathan Rees by Claire Harvey appeared in the Sunday Telegraph of 21st September 2008. The article tells the story of Nathan Rees visiting Ray Jackson Waterloo home when he was Milton Orkopoulos Chief of Staff with the suggestion for a coup against the Aboriginal Housing Company. We have reproduced the entire article and not just the section about Nathan Rees earlier involvement in the NSW governments dirty tricks in Redfern Waterloo.
- Keneally tight-lipped on key planning projects
- Kristina Keneally hopes to restore public confidence in the portfolio she inherited from ousted former minister Frank Sartor reports Alex McDonald in City news of 21 September 2008.
- Redfern-Waterloo Authority chips in on the Block
- Plans to upgrade the Block in Redfern are edging toward reality after a politically-driven deal saw the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) pay the $68,750 Department of Planning processing fee writes Emma Kemp in City News of 21 September 2008.
- Greens get two seats
- The Greens have picked up a second seat on Sydney Council. Mardi Gras ‘78er Irene Doutney will join Chris Harris on the council following a flow of preferences reports Sydney Star observer on 20 September 2008.
- Getting Shunted
- QUENTIN DEMPSTER, PRESENTER: Getting shunted: our investigation into the eviction of a heritage blacksmith operating at Sydney's old Redfern railway yards has had a happy ending. It now appears that the future of the historic workshops has been secured. But the blacksmith's threatened eviction has become a rallying point for those who want to save more of the valuable railway heritage at Redfern. Nick Grimm reports on ABC’s NSW Stateline of 19th September 2008.
- NSW Planning: Right Wing and a Prayer?
- Given growing distrust over the nexus between decision making and political donations, the meteoric downfall of Frank Sartor, and public disdain for nearly every major development booked by the NSW Government in the last three years, newly-minted Planning Minister Kristina Keneally might have been hoping for a saintly fanfare. Instead, writes Roger Hanney in the City hub of 18th September 2008, the pilgrims are getting restless.
- Keneally: Sartor’s planning reforms to continue
- Newly appointed Planning and Redfern-Waterloo Minister, local Heffron MP Kristina Keneally, said she won’t be reversing highly unpopular planning reforms introduced by her predecessor, but flagged a new policy of community consultation and openness reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 17th September 2008..
- Rees comes to Eveleigh for kids
- The Premier and Arts Minister, Nathan Rees, today launched the inaugural Sydney Children’s Festival at the CarriageWorks at Eveleigh reports Central on 16th September 2008.
