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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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- I ON EXCELLENCE – NCIE Newsletter 1 – May 2009
- This is the text of the first National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) newsletter which was distributed in May 2009. The distributed PDF was not searchable or possible to copy from so we have made this text version from an OCR of the newsletter. It should be noted that the text of the pdf newsletter differs from the text in the news stories of the same name on the news section of www.ncie.org.au
- Wheelchair access at top of Macdonaldtown station stairs
- IT COULD be Sydney's stupidest station - Macdonaldtown, right next door to the city and in the heartland of the progressive Inner-West, boasts a wheelchair-accessible phone and ramps for wheelchair users to get on and off trains reports Joe Hilderbrand in The Daily Telegraph of 18 May 2009.
- Idol auditions at Redfern
- Narrow definitions of talent are gone and the hunt for genuine individuality is on at Eveleigh this weekend, where auditions for the seventh series of Australian Idol are underway reports Kim Shaw on Central on 16 May 2009.
- 18 charged after raids at 'The Block' in Redfern
- A major drug raid at ‘The Block’ at Redfern, in Sydney’s inner suburbs, has led to 18 people being charged reports Annika Burgess on Macquarie national News of 14 May 2009.
- Developer looks for Changes on Rachel Forster Site
- An increase of 9 residential units and 9 car spaces are included in the plans prepared by the new owner of the former Rachael Forster site reports REDWatch's Geoff Turnbull.
- Fear worse than reality in Redfern
- A handful of high profile crimes in recent weeks has created a perception of fear in Redfern according to local police reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 14 may 2009.
- Redfern drug raid
- Police have arrested and charged 18 people after a major drug raid in ‘The Block’ at Redfern, in Sydney’s inner suburbs reports Central on 14 May 2009.
- Waterloo Youthy gets Federal Funding
- The Federal Government has contributed $2 million toward redeveloping the Waterloo Youth Facility reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 13 May 2009.
- Jobs For The Mob
- With the global economy in trouble, joblessness is on a lot of people's minds. A program in Sydney's Redfern is relieving this anxiety for many. The Koori Job Ready course trains unemployed Aboriginal men - including some who've had difficult home lives - for jobs in the construction industry reports SBS’s Living Black on 11 May 2009.
- 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.
