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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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- Edgy venue forged from gritty past
- Dance beats and theatre voices will soon drum out yesterday's echoes of metalwork at an old railyard, writes Valerie Lawson in the Sydney Morning Herald of October 2 2006.
- Train station CCTV to reduce terrorism threat
- Sydney's busiest train stations will have cameras installed that can recognise faces, in an attempt to curb terrorist threats reports ABC News October 1 2006.
- New South Wales Rail Transport Museum on Rail Heritage 3801 and Eveleigh
- The following article “RTM Mail” was published in the October 2006 Australian Railway History journal of the Australian Railway Historical Society. The Article is a report from Peter Berriman President of the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum (NSWRTM) at Thirlmere. The report carries some background on RailCorp's Rail Heritage Management Strategy announcement of which NSWRTM is the major beneficiary, as well as NSWRTM’s position on 3801. These provide good background to the RailCorp announcement and the Railway heritage politics around it. Of major interest however to people of Redfern Waterloo will be the final section which shows how Eveleigh is caught up in this. [Please note that we have requested a copy of any statement made by Minister Sartor which “firmly refutes” that the “Large Erecting Shop at Eveleigh will be demolished to make way for high-rise development”. The RWA have responded that Minister has stated his position in the media statement issued on August 30th. This was the statement made on the day that the Minister both showed the Large on the gazetted heritage map and at the same time gazetted planning control changes to permit the Large to be replaced by an up to 12 storey development.]
- Move to extend privacy law exemption
- THE New South Wales Government has proposed changes to privacy laws that will enable its agencies to share information about young people at risk of falling into a life of crime reports AAP on 26th September 2006.
- Lost: another opportunity for excitement
- GOVERNMENT is like shampoo. You have to use it, but the less you can get away with, the healthier. What's worse than one shampoo, therefore, is two. The Carlton and United Brewery site on Broadway offers a fine exemplar of this maxim: the only thing more ruinous than one level of government is two. [By Elizabeth Farrelly Sydney Morning Herald September 13, 2006].
- Statement on the Block and the Aboriginal Housing Company
- Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally has told the Aboriginal Housing Company that she looks forward to the lodging of their development application for the area known as ‘the Block.’ [From a media release from Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally issued 13 September 2006].
- Errors of fact
- Elizabeth Farrelly ("No favours for Aboriginal developer", September 6) makes a number of errors of fact, writes Kristina Keneally MP.
- Alexandria Park Community School in Partnership
- This week Kristina Keneally announced that Alexandra Park Community School is one of the latest schools to join the Schools in Partnership (SiP) initiative. [Extract from Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald No 25 of 8th September 2006].
- Kristina Keneally Comments on the RWA BEP
- The following comments on the RWA BEP were made by Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald No 25 of 8th September 2006.
- Clover Moores comments on the RWA Built Environment Plan
- Following is an extract from CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 8 September 2006 - No. 313 concerning the RWA BEP released on 30 August 2006.
- UN Special Rapporteur puzzled over obstacles to Pemulwuy Project
- The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari, visited the Aboriginal Housing Company on 3 August reports Vladimir Korotkov in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006.
- Pemulwuy lives, say hundreds who attend Block protest
- On Thursday 10th August, more than 400 people attended a candle light vigil in Redfern in support of the Aboriginal Housing Company's (AHC) Pemulwuy Project - a redevelopment plan for the historic Indigenous precinct in Sydney known as The Block, reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald September 2006.
- The 3801 train leaves Redfern
- Like many an Australian story, the future of the beloved steam train 3801 is all about money, real estate, bureaucratic intransigence and political manoeuvering reports John Stapleton in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006.
- Sartor releases final development plans for Redfern-Waterloo
- The Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) released the final Draft Built Environment Plan (BEP) for the area' on 30th August, completing stage one of the NSW Government's Redfern Waterloo Plan, which includes the Human Services Plan and the Employment and Enterprise Plan reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006..
- Redfern police officers are committed to serve and protect the Aboriginal community
- Report by Catherine Burn Commander Redfern Local Area Command in Comment & Opinion in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006.
- "Underutilised" parks - a common refrain
- The latest chapter in South Sydney's efforts to preserve its urban open spaces concerns the battle for Marian Street Park. Once again, a familiar refrain has been heard from those who would like to interfere with urban parkland. That's when they say, "it's underutilised': Reports by Anna Christie the South Sydney Herald of September 2006.
- Celebrating the Real Redfern
- The dissonance between the outsiders' view of Redfern r deprived and disadvantaged, a hotbed of violence and crime – and the reality experienced by those who live here was highlighted in the annual Margaret Barry Memorial Lecture, given this year by historian Sue Rosen at Redfern Town Hall on August 17 reports GERALDINE O'BRIEN in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006.
- Consultation going through the motions in Chippendale
- The South Sydney Herald's Samantha Van reports that the City of Sydney Councillor Chris Harris suspects that the Carlton and United Brewery site owners and Planning Minister Frank Sartor "are preparing the way to announce increased density on the CUB site and are simply going through the motions to consult with the community."
- Paperboy puts on three kilos after one month of gruelling training
- South Sydney Herald editor Trevor 'The Paperboy' Davies has gained three kilograms in the past month despite taking part in an intensive fitness program at Mundine's Gym in Redfern reports Joseph Conn in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006.
- EDNA TURVEY 1925 - 2006
- Obituary by Barrie McMahon from the South Sydney Herald of September 2006
