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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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- Drug-Free for a Day
- One man risks his life every day trying to make Redfern a better place to live. Drug dealers have threatened him, his family has received menacing letters at home and he has been verbally abused many times reports Irina Moldovan in UTS’s Reportage on 8 May 2009.
- Arrested development: Taking to the streets against Redfern’s rebirth
- This year Sydney has once again cracked the top ten of least affordable cities in the world and nowhere is this statistic becoming more visible than in the rapidly changing face of our inner-city suburbs writes Angus Thompson in City news of 8 May 2009.
- Federal Funding for Waterloo Youth Facility
- The City has received a $2 million grant from the Federal Government's Community Infrastructure Program for our Waterloo Youth Facility, located at the southern end of Waterloo Park reports Clover Moore's eNews of 8 May 2009.
- Erskineville supermarket DA returns
- A PLAN to convert the abandoned Hive complex at Erskineville into a supermarket has been resurrected after a development application was lodged with Sydney Council reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 7 May 2009.
- REDWATER NEWS - Text Verson - May 2009
- Below is a text version of the May 2009 REDWATER NEWS which will allow people to easily reference the Harm Minimisation, Alcohol Free Zone arguments and other items from the May 2009 REDWATER NEWS.
- There Goes The Neighbourhood
- It doesn’t take much to see that Redfern ain’t what it used to be. Artists Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg were both residents of the hotly contested suburb when they started 2016, a ten-year archive project to document the changes they were seeing in the area (with 2016 being the expected date of completion and the postcode for Redfern) reports Amelia Groom in City News on 6 May 2009.
- Central Letters on Wet Centre
- The following two letters about a proposed wet centre appeared in the 6 May 2009 Central
- Opinion divided over new IGA
- Local businesses and residents are divided over the proposal for a new supermarket on Chalmers Street in Redfern. Submissions against the development application for a SUPA IGA on the ground floor of South Sydney Leagues Club closed last month, after almost two years of opposition from some members of the community reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- Darlington’s forgotten street
- In 2005, the SSH reported on the Redfern Chamber of Commerce and local business owners’ proposal to maintain and preserve the shop fronts on Abercrombie Street. City of Sydney Councillor John McInerney visited the area, informing locals of future action to be taken. The $20 million Redfern upgrade granted at that time, was to be shared between Redfern, Regent and Abercrombie Streets reports Amanda Robb in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- Cars versus bikes versus pedestrians
- Sydney Council is determined to attract more people to cycling as a form of transport and inner city residents opposed to the campaign will have to adapt reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- Redfern RSL marches on
- On Sunday April 19, the members of the Returned & Services League in Redfern proudly marched from their club to Redfern Park for a service and wreath-laying ceremony. Led by mounted police and a Scots marching band belting out ‘Amazing Grace’ on the bagpipes, there was a definite air of pride from the gentlemen and women that had served their country reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- Upgrades to public housing herald “new era”
- Public housing properties in Redfern and Waterloo will receive much-needed upgrades as part of the Federal Government’s stimulus package. NSW Housing Minister, David Borger, and Federal Housing Minister, Tanya Plibersek, made the announcement in Glebe last month with local member for Balmain, Verity Firth reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- SSH Editorial on Public Housing Maintenance
- The Federal Government’s stimulus package has delivered much-needed funds for repairs and maintenance to public housing properties across the State – including $3.8 million for repairs to 1,404 homes in Redfern and Waterloo says the South Sydney Herald Editorial of May 2009.
- SSH The Fast News - May 2009
- Trevor Davies in Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009 covers a number of items of interest to Redfern Waterloo including the future of secondary bus routes, RWA’s newe CEO, The Urban Taskforce on affordable housing and staff cuts planned for Erskineville and Redfern railway stations.
- New Metrobus Service for South Sydney
- I write with great news for South Sydney residents – a new Metrobus serving commuters in Rosebery, Zetland, Waterloo and Redfern writes Kristina Keneally in her add the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for young people
- As its recent media release indicates, we learn that great things are planned for the new National Centre for Indigenous Excellence opening in George Street Redfern later this year. The NCIE, will become “the first multi-use complex to offer world class sport, education, art and cultural programs for young Indigenous people. Fostering talent and encouraging excellence, the NCIE will provide young people the foundations they need to succeed in their future endeavours.” reports the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- Memorial for Mum Shirl and Father Ted
- In 2006, the year after Fr Ted Kennedy died, members of the community of St Vincent’s Church in Redfern approached Tom Bass and the sculpture studio school at Erskineville to design a memorial. This was followed by multiple meetings to discuss the nature of this project with Marnie Kennedy, Fr Ted’s sister, who continues his work in Redfern, and other members of the church community including Catherine de Lorenzo, Bronwyn Crosby and Danny Gilbert. Ann Weldon, Mum Shirl’s niece, came to the meetings when she was able reports Margo Hoekstra in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- There Goes The Neighbourhood Exhibition and book project
- Performance Space presents There Goes The Neighbourhood, a major curatorial commission and book project by local curators Zanny Begg and Keg de Souza. Exploring the global phenomena of gentrification through the local frame of Redfern, the curators have gathered artists, activists, philosophers, writers, architects, community groups and local planners around a common theme and within Sydney’s (and arguably, Australia’s) most contested suburb reports the South Sydney Herald of May 2009
- Tearing it up at Fernside
- Not even the grey skies and looming rain could keep the scores of skateboarders and scooter riders away from the 10th Annual Fernside Skating Competition reports Alexander Fleming in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
- More than your average footy club
- The new breed of inner city residents, who sit outside a café drinking their skim milk lattes, think that they are living the village life and have a great sense of community spirit. The true long-time locals will know that the inner city will never be a village made up of families who send their kids out of district for schooling and don’t participate in supporting their local sporting teams reports Perry Johnstone in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
