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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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- No favours for Aboriginal developer
- ALL across the state, honest developers are on their knees, wearing out their breeches in prayer. The object of their fervour is that champagne moment when the LLDC (Lib-Lab Development Coalition) will declare their site "state significant"; when they are lost no longer but, thankgoda'mighty, saved at last. Their eyes glaze and halos of tiny dollar signs glow above each head, writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald September 6, 2006.
- Doing their Block: blueprint for change upsets Redfern
- THE final blueprint for development in Redfern-Waterloo has failed to appease the local Aboriginal community, despite allowing a slight increase in the number of houses on the Block reports Sherrill Nixon and Justin Norrie in The Sydney Morning Herald 31st August 2006.
- Shadowy tower plan applies permanent sun screen
- HIGH-RISE apartment blocks on the Carton & United Breweries site at Broadway will be so tall and dense that one-third of the units and the site's park will get only two hours of sunlight a day in mid-winter reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor Sydney Morning Herald 31st August 2006.
- Locals block Redfern revamp
- THE Aboriginal owners of Redfern's most notorious neighbourhood, The Block, have rejected the Planning Minister Frank Sartor's final plan for the strip reports Larissa Cummings in The Daily Telegraph August 31, 2006.
- Sartor outlines final Redfern plan
- It's one of the most ambitious urban transformation projects in Australia — the redevelopment of the troubled Redfern-Waterloo area in Sydney's inner city into a trendy inner city space with a mix of television workers, technology and research types and brand new housing and shops. Report by Tina Perinotto in The Australian Financial Review Thursday 31 August 2006.
- NEW BOARD MEMBERS FOR REDFERN WATERLOO AUTHORITY
- This is a media release made on 30th August 2006 announcing the addition of Warren Mundine and Ann Weldon to the Redfern Waterloo Authority Board.
- NEW BUILT ENVIRONMENT PLAN FOR REDFERN-WATERLOO
- The following Media Release was issued by Minister Frank Sartor to announce the Redfern-Waterloo Built Environment Plan (Stage One) on 30 August 2006.
- Keneally: Marian Park Saved!
- 30 August 2006 – Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally said today she was ecstatic that the Minister for Redfern Waterloo had listened to the community and saved Marian Street Park in the Built Environment Plan released today. [Media release from Kristina Keneallty]
- Hillsong thinks again on welfare
- HILLSONG Emerge, the only church charity in NSW to participate in a controversial welfare-to-work program, yesterday signalled its reservations about the Federal Government initiative reports Adele Horin in the August 24, 2006 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald.
- Residents to see CUB report - Planning Minister to make document public.
- T he public will get to see an advisory panel’s report on the controversial redevelopment of Chippendale’s Carlton and United Brewery (CUB) site, Planning Minister Frank Sartor has said. Report by Alexandra Walker Sydney Central Courier 23rd August 2006.
- A sorry site
- THE Carlton & United Breweries site on Broadway is one of Sydney's prime development sites, six hectares of opportunity on the southern edge of the city centre. Trains, buses and major roads are at its door, leading universities are its near neighbours. The regeneration of this historic site should be a model of how Sydney can build for its future, without forgetting its past. So far, however, it exemplifies only the chaotic state of planning in the heart of Australia's biggest city. [SMH Editorial August 19, 2006]
- Battlers and bulldozers
- Public housing is more difficult than ever to get into and poor people are forced to rent privately, often struggling to put food on the table. Debra Jopson looks at what went wrong in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 19, 2006.
- Brewer's plan for Broadway site leaves residents reeling in horror
- THE Carlton & United Breweries site in Broadway will become a "mini-Manhattan on steroids", its neighbours fear after graphic images of the potential new city skyline were shown at a meeting. Report by Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor Sydney Morning Herald August 18, 2006.
- More Local Bus Services for Heffron
- Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald 18 August 2006 reports that State Transit will run six additional bus services in the AM and PM peaks on local bus routes in Heffron. With a common peak hour complaint in Redfern Waterloo of buses being full by the time they get to Redfern Waterloo this may assist Redfern Waterloo peak hour travellers as well.
- Hillsong Rosebery Project
- Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald 18 August 2006 reports on Hillsongs Plans for a new auditorium and facilities in Rosebery which would allow Hillsong to move from its current site in Waterloo.
- More Police Officers for Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney
- Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald of 18 August 2006 advised that Redfern will get eight new police officers in September 2006 with the possibility of additional numbers in January 2007.
- OWNERS' "SCOPING PLAN" TO DETERMINE CUB SITE
- It was revealed at the public meeting on Chippendale's Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site this week that Fosters, the site owner, has prepared a "Scoping Paper" as the basis for redevelopment and new planning controls on the site.[ CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 18 August 2006 - No. 310]
- Brewery site revamp to include skyscraper
- A skyscraper of up to 110 metres is being planned for the Carlton United Brewery site in Broadway in inner Sydney. [ABC News Friday, August 18, 2006]
- Is he up for the fight?
- Anthony 'The Man' Mundine keeps everybody guessing. Report Joseph Sumegi & Alexandra Walker in the 16th August 2006 SydneyCentral Courier.
- Carlton United Brewery Public Meeting - 14th August 2006
- To the residents, business proprietors and workers in the vicinity of the Carlton United Brewery site. Carlton United Brewery Public Meeting Tuesday 15th August 6.30pm - 8.30pm, University of Technology Sydney, Room 2.4.29
