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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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- Stadium Stoush
- YOUR article ("Redfern Park to Benefit Entire Community," March 5, 2008) overlooks a few important issues writes Paul Dorron in this letter to Central of 12 March 2008.
- Runaway Train
- THE cost to tax payers from Eveleigh Arts facility Carriageworks continues to rise while local arts institutions struggle for basic funding reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 12 March 2008.
- Mural to Return
- A NEW generation of indigenous youth will paint alongside internationally recognised artists under a council plan to restore a Redfern mural. Work by indigenous artists including Tracey Moffatt, Jeffrey Samuels, Fiona Foley and Avril Quaill was painted over after a change of management at the The Settlement Neighbourhood Centre three years ago reports Xanthe Kleinig in the Central of 12 March 2008.
- Hillsong Development Donations and Issues
- The Central Sydney in it 12 March 2008 edition has continued to carry articles on Hillsong, this week with a focus on Donations to the ALP. They also carry letters on the Hillsong DA from a Rosebery resident and local Member Kristina Keneally on the proposed development.
- Mum Shirl the real bright light at Redfern launch
- WHILE celebrations were meant to centre on improvements to Redfern’s streetscape, the launch night really belonged to one woman – Aboriginal activist Mum Shirl writes MICK ROBERTS in The City News of March 8 2008.
- Full steam ahead as artists do the hard yards
- One hundred years ago, the Eveleigh rail yards were filled with train carriages and noisy machinery. These days, visitors are more likely to encounter break dancers, dinosaur puppets or a studio audience for So You Think You Can Dance Australia writes Louise Schwartzkoff in the SMH of March 6, 2008.
- Saint of Redfern remembered ‘Mum’ Shirl (1924-1998)
- The City of Sydney lit up Redfern Street on February 27 in an official memorial service for Colleen Shirl Perry, better known as “Mum Shirl” reports Sarah Malik in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- MTV awards in Redfern
- The Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh will host the MTV Australia Awards on April 26 reports in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- From Russia to Randwick: 100 years
- Not many of those pushing the 90-years barrier would think about moving house, let alone country. Waterloo resident Lev Gudeyskiy did just that back in 1996, coming to Australia to start a new life reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- More than transport - Launch of another free shuttle bus
- On February 15, Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, launched the second development in the “Village to Village” free shuttle bus service for South Sydney Community Transport reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Wish List 2008
- In the South Sydney Herald of March 2008 Ellice Mol asks community representatives what they wish for in 2008. Two of those asked came from Redfern Tony Pooley and Leanne Fraser.
- Have You Heard - The Fast News March 2008
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008 has reported on a number of Redfern Waterloo items which we have reported below:
- Apology draws tears, offers hope
- Seldom has a single word meant so much as when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations on February 13, saying “sorry” to families torn apart by governments that removed children from a 50,000-year-old culture and left them alone in a country rife with racism and without their traditional role models reports Joseph Correy in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- On the issue of compensation
- On Wednesday February 13, as the first order of business in the 42nd Parliament, an apology was offered to members and families of the Stolen Generations reports Mark Hughes in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Human rights and the national apology
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations presents Australia with an opportunity to reflect on the state of human rights in this country. To understand where we stand on human rights it is imperative to examine the political context of the world today, and where we as Australians fit into this reports Aletha Penrith and Joseph Correy in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- To Canberra, towards Reconciliation
- Sarah Malik takes a bus into Canberra on a cold Tuesday morning to cover the protest rally against the Indigenous intervention in the Northern Territory and writes about it in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Mundine and his Cousins
- A media frenzy ensued inside Mundine’s Gym last month in Redfern, when Ben Cousins appeared before a media scrum to talk about his rehabilitation from drug use reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Centenary year: plenty to cheer about
- South Sydney Football Club held a Rabbitohs Member and Fan Appreciation Day at Erskineville Oval on Sunday February 17. Fans young and young at heart cheered as the Souths NRL squad for the club’s Centenary Season in 2008 was introduced reports Zimmy Watt in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- The Erko supermarket debate
- Friends of Erskineville have stepped up their Internet-based campaign in opposition to the proposal of a two-storey supermarket. The momentum has continued to gather pace with more than 3,000 people signing petitions in local shops and online reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
- Residents up in arms over Hillsong
- Rosebery residents met face-to-face with Hillsong last month to decide the fate of the building of a 2,700-seat mega-church at an old RTA site in Rosebery reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008.
