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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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- Farewell Leanne
- It was like a teary episode of the sit-com Cheers – with a South Sydney twist. After nine years as owner and manager of Appetite Café in Regent Street, Redfern, Leanne Fraser was saying goodbye. The café was crowded with regulars – enjoying the after-hours ambience, reminiscing, getting to know each other (better). And then Leanne stepped up on a chair to address us reports the Editorial in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008
- On this bus the classical music’s a bonus
- Some good news on buses has emerged out of the widespread distress at the proposed changes to the 311 route. A local Labor delegation led by Jo Holder, ALP candidate for the City of Sydney Council, met with Sydney Buses General Manager of Planning, Roger Wilson, on Friday August 8, and secured his undertaking that “The Elizabeth Bay loop will stay and it is highly likely the Central Railway loop stays.” But while the State Transit Authority maintains a schedule that falls to two buses an hour in off-peak periods, a little-known local bus service is doing its bit to help reports Peter Whitehead in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Old pub faces new bar
- Cleveland Street’s Britannia Hotel has a colourful history. It is the pub in which corrupt former cop Roger Rogerson drank a beer before shooting to death Sydney underworld figure and heroin dealer, Warren Lanfranchi, in nearby Dangar Place in 1981 reports Vanessa Watson in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Residents’ concerns passed over
- Chippendale residents in a long-running fight to resolve the safety problem of trying to cross City Road have accused the Lord Mayor of arrogance and treachery reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Yiu Ming Temple still in trouble
- The South Sydney Herald has reported a number of times over the past three years on the problems facing the Yiu Ming Temple on Botany Road. In April of this year, Ben Falkenmire presented a calendar of events.
- Intervention into the pride and integrity of Aboriginal people
- On Wednesday August 13 over 100 people attended the first Australian screening at the Teachers’ Federation Auditorium, Surry Hills, of This Is Our Country Too. The documentary, by Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr, includes interviews with many people directly affected by the Northern Territory Intervention. Viewers saw a different Australia – not the rich gold-medal-raking nation that most are currently watching on TV. The movie was presented by the Stop The Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- CoS Council 2008 Candidate profiles
- In addition to interviews with Lord Mayoral candidates, the South Sydney Herald of August 2008 presented responses from the following candidates for Council. Questions by Lyn Turnbull.
- Clover Moore – Independent - Mayoral Candidate
- Dorothy McRae-McMahon reports on Clover Moore in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Telling candidates apart
- City of Sydney elections are nearing, and a plethora of candidates is jostling to overthrow incumbent Lord Mayor Clover Moore reports Carissa Simons in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Singing in the Spring - The Sydney A Cappella Festival 2008
- The Sydney A Cappella Association folded in 2002, and there hasn’t been a festival of a cappella (unaccompanied) singing since then. This year one very enthusiastic choir is hoping to inject new energy into the local scene reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- “… the song is writing me” Artist Profile: MjWoodbridge
- “Grow, grow, grow old and one with me, my creativity, To the day I die, do I laugh or cry? How do I tell mother that I'm gonna be an artist?” These are the lyrics to the song ‘In The Name Of Art’ by MjWoodbridge, a singer-songwriter from Darlington reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Cigarettes – now you see them …
- While news of the tougher smoking laws targetting retailers has won widespread praise from public health advocates, local businesses doubt they will have any impact on sales and are taking the move in their stride reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- SSH Café of the Month: Bush ’n’ Berry Indigenous Art Café
- Scott Winter reports on Bush ’n’ Berry Indigenous Art Café in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- ‘Guwanyi’ - Indigenous Writers’ Festival
- How can the great Australian story be fully told without a great Aboriginal presence? Asks the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Souths end talk of relocation by building own beach
- IF THE contentious criteria that was used by the NRL to kick South Sydney out of the premiership in 1999 was applied now, the Rabbitohs believe they would rank as the No.1 club in Sydney - and possibly second overall behind the Broncos writes Brad Walter in the Sydney Morning Herald of 3rd September 2008.
- What is happening in South Sydney?
- We know South Sydney has always been a happening place, but there is so much going on at the present time, that we have decided to give ISV readers a snapshot on the latest situation. These changes are rolling along and peak at different times so unless you are in the middle of it, it is hard to keep up - that is, until the place suddenly looks different. Driving down Regent Street today, suddenly there is a set of metal spikes sticking up from a surrounding fence - it can't be left over barricading from World Youth Day, so it must be a sculpture that must have been in a plan somewhere - but who can keep up? Looked very un-Redfern reports Inner Sydney Voice Spring 2008.
- Regional Council's New Executive Officer - September 2008
- Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development have appointed a new Executive Officer, Pam marsh, to carry on the great tradition of `Regional Council'.
- Combined Chippendale Community Groups Update - 1st September 2008
- Last Thursday community representatives met with Frank Sartor, the Minister for Planning about the proposed changes to the Concept Plan.
- Candidates who could tip the balance of power
- When Clover Moore became Lord Mayor in 2004, her above-the-line vote was so substantial that four other independents - Phillip Black, Marcelle Hoff, John McInerney and Robyn Kemmis - were also swept into office reports Mick Roberts in City News of 31st August 2008.
- Lifeline for heritage blacksmith shop
- Heritage blacksmith shop Wrought Artworks have been given a lifeline following efforts to evict them from the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops reports Mick Roberts in City News of 31st August 2008.
