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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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- Fight your own battles
- In this opinion piece on nzherald.co.nz Irfan Yusuf, a Sydney lawyer who won the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger Award for public affairs writing puts the Coloured Digger story into the broader colonial war context.
- Risky State of Play
- HOUSING NSW playgrounds in Redfern and Waterloo are no place for children, with rusty equipment, sharp edges, broken swings and missing bolts just accidents waiting to happen, mothers said. Owen and Samantha (pictured) just want a safe place to play, with equipment that works reports Robert Burton-Bradley with Pictures by Phil Rogers in a feature article in Central of 23 April 2008. The topic was also the subject of the editorial also below.
- False Promises - `Clueless' minister can't deliver
- HOUSING NSW has contradicted Housing Minister Matt Brown about the failure of a new Waterloo Graffiti eradication program. The Minister announced the program last month and at a press conference at the Marton public housing building said the new program was to target graffiti both "inside and outside" the building reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- Redfern Residents Brace for MTV Awards
- WITH the MTV awards taking place this weekend, Redfern residents around Australian Technology Park are getting ready for another noisy Saturday night reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- Black & White .Irene Doutney A Green Government
- REDFERN resident Irene Doutney has spent her life fighting for Sydney's less fortunate. Now the veteran aid worker and volunteer has turned her hand to politics, aiming to become the second Greens councillor on Sydney Council come September's election reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008..
- Hillsong ‘Recruiting’ Kids - Club volunteers accused
- HILLSONG Church has been accused of infiltrating the South Sydney Police and Community Youth Club in the guise of volunteers in order to recruit children reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- March for Recognition - Indigenous veterans stand up to be remembered
- THIS Anzac Day, an often forgotten but vital contingent of diggers will be remembered at Redfern reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- Family & Friends Welcome to March in Redfern in ANZAC Day
- Speaking in Redfern last night at the opening of the Coloured Digger-2 exhibition at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern ANZAC Day March Coordinator, Pastor Ray Minniecon, last night issued an open invitation to supporters in the community to march with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and servicewomen and their family members in Redfern on ANZAC Day reports this "Coloured Digger" media release of 23 April 2008.
- Auction flurry: keen prices for the cashed-up
- AS THE clock ticks down to the end of the this financial year, agents are tipping a flurry of auctions to hit the market as investors cash up amid the uncertain outlook for the economy reports Carolyn Cummins in the Sydney Morning Herald of April 19, 2008.
- Govt pushes on with Everleigh rail yard demolition
- The New South Wales Government is proceeding with a plan to demolish several buildings at the Everleigh rail yards in inner-Sydney, some of which are more than 100 years old reports ABC news on 18th April 2009.
- Friends of Eveleigh Media Release – 17th April 2008
- The nomination of the Large Erecting Shop and its contents for National Heritage Listing is still proceeding while the NSW Office of Rail Heritage is looking to disperse the contents. This Media Release from Friends of Eveleigh of 17th April covers the Old Commissioner’s Car repair and non-return to its registered home at the Large, the recent visit from Office of Rail Heritage to record all rolling stock at the Large and the need for support for the National Heritage Listing.
- Hillsong link to club's letter of support
- A LETTER from the South Sydney Police and Community Youth Club urging City of Sydney council to support a controversial development proposal by the Hillsong Church was written by a former Hillsong volunteer who later became the club's manager, it was revealed yesterday reports Paul Bibby in the Sydney Morning Herald of April 16, 2008.
- REVISED PLANS APPLAUDED
- FRASERS Property has revealed its final plans for the $2-billion redevelopment of the old Kent Brewery site on Broadway reports Jennifer Bennett Central 16th April 2008.
- HILLSONG PETITION 'DECEPTIVE'
- HILLSONG Church has been accused of underhanded tactics in an attempt to sway the body considering a Hillsong DA for a super church at Rosebery reports Robert Burton-Bradley Central 16th April 2008.
- Inner-city public housing gets facelift
- Social housing properties in inner-Sydney will get a facelift with $9.2 million of federal funding to be spent on maintenance reports aap on the Age website on 14 April 2009.
- Rabbitoh push for Hillsong church
- A GROUP of prominent politicians, business leaders and community organisations including the South Sydney Rugby League Club are supporting the controversial Hillsong Church campaign to build a mega-church in the inner city reports Paul Bibby and Jano Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of April 11, 2008.
- Lest we forget: indigenous diggers still fighting
- THERE is one in almost every suburban centre and country town in Australia - a bronze digger in a slouch hat or a sandstone monument marking the sacrifice made by Australia's servicemen and women reports Paul Bibby Sydney Morning Herald April 10, 2008.
- Men get some healthy advice
- WHAT hope has a fella got for improving his health when he hasn't even got a Medicare card? That question confronted organisers of a health awareness day in Sydney recently, when it was discovered that 15 of more than 100 men attending did not have a card reports Darren Coyne in Koori Mail of 9th April 2008.
- Councillor criticises brewery redevelopment plan
- City of Sydney Councillor John McInerney says an amended development proposal for the old Kent Brewery site at Broadway largely ignores the New South Wales Government's concept plan reports ABC News of 9th April 2008.
- World's biggest home brew - and room for 13,000 at the inn
- BUILDING of one of the biggest urban renewal projects in Sydney for decades could start as early as next year, with the Singapore developer Stanley Quek expected to lodge an amended masterplan soon with the State Government for the old brewery site in Chippendale reports Wendy Frew the Urban Affairs Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald of April 9, 2008.
