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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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- DOH POTTERY TEAM GOES FUNCTIONAL
- John Perry Team leader at Redfern has advised the RWN of some important changes. The Department’s Clients Service Team managing the Surry Hills and Redfern properties has undergone a change in managing workloads reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- Volunteer Formal Recognition is Coming
- RedWater news reports in its December 2007 issue that it has been informed of plans that the Department of Housing is to form a Volunteer policy giving official recognition of Volunteers within social housing. Minister of Housing stated in a letter “that the Department values the significant contribution made by volunteers in our society by contributing to the development of vibrant and healthy communities.”
- Waterloo Green Action Plan has arrived !
- RWN reported in our last edition that Waterloo residents and frontline workers with the assistance of HCAP formed an action group reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- The Redfern & Inner City Home Support Service
- R.I.C.H.S.S is a community agency whose role is to provide assistance such as social support, home visiting etc reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- The Factory helps “let the dog Out”
- The Factory Community Centre recently worked with Our Lady of Mt Carmel School in Waterloo on the ‘let the Dog out’ Project reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- School happens on model for indigenous learning
- A SYDNEY private school believes it has struck pedagogical gold with an innovative solution to educating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children reports Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of November 23, 2007.
- Save Erko - DA Lodged for 2 Story Supermarket Building in Erskineville Village – Closes 15th December 2007
- Big business is coming to town. Which do you prefer? Coles? Woolworths? McDonalds? A Development Application has been lodged for a big 2 storey supermarket on the corner of Erskineville Road and Gowrie Street reports this media release from Village Friends in Erskineville.
- Family gathering and rally on NT Intervention - 18th November, 2007 10am
- On Saturday 24th a new Federal Government will be decided. This meeting and rally, one week out from the election, is our chance to ensure Aboriginal voices are heard loud and clear and the injustices of the Government’s invasion of Aboriginal communities in the NT are known about.
- Souths back but are the fans?
- The South Sydney Rabbitohs, one of the founding clubs of rugby league, remains the most successful team in the 100-year history of the annual NRL competition with 20 priemiership titles to their name reports Emily Laurence in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Language and skills prepare students for brighter future
- Chatting happily in a corner of Prince Alfred Park in Sydney's Surry Hills, they look like a typical bunch of cheerful, multicultural Australian kids reports Arsito Hidayatullah in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Multi-million dollar upgrade for ILC site
- The site that once housed Australia's first Aboriginal theatre is under re-construction reports Annabel Boyer in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Why Bancroft feels right at home with nature
- Aboriginal artist Bronwyn Bancroft's home is easy to pick. Even from the street it stands out like a beacon – charmingly bright, colourful and decorative. Inside is no different, with paintings for an upcoming exhibition coveting every inch of waft space reports Katie Hoskins in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Art wall one way to mend fences with community
- The final stage in a two- year upgrade of Eveleigh Street precinct is almost finished reports Katie Hoskins in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Carlton site brews green concerns
- The development of a multi-million dollar residential and commercial area in Chippendale is set to go ahead reports Victoria Strobl in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Crunch time for The Block
- Years after the Pemulwuy Project was first planned, the Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) will submit its concept master plan for the redevelopment of the Redfern Block to the NSW Department of Planning. Under state law, the department will have 40 days to accept or reject the project reports Angela Dewan in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Needle bus must go - Mundine
- Aboriginal community leader Mick Mundine has renewed calls for The Block's controversial needle exchange bus to be scrapped, as plans are put in place for new drug services in Redfern reports Britta Jorgensen in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Not all hard work at this factory
- Candles, cake and memories, mostly good and some bad, were on the menu when Waterloo-based organisation The Factory celebrated 30 years of community service reports Katrina Yu in Precinct South Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- A celebration of diverse Lebanese history in Redfern
- "Back in the early 1900s, it was the rhythmic pounding of butchers tenderising lamb in their jiruns that could be heard while walking down Cooper Street in Redfern," says Paul Convy from the Australian Lebanese Historic Society (ALHS), speaking on the inaugural Redfern Lebanese Legacy walk organised for History Week 2007 reports Julie Shingleton in Precinct Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- Our heritage at risk
- There are surely few images more redolent of fading Imperial glory than the sight of idly decaying industrial machinery reports Shant Fabricatorian in Precinct Sydney Edition Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
- FOI controversy over street team
- A street team that provide youth services in the Redfern and Waterloo areas between 2003 and 2005 failed partly because the model imposed on it by senior NSW government public servants was "flawed", confused and needed more community consultation and involvement reports Precinct southside Issue 4/2007 in November 2007.
