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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.
You can get up to date news by setting up a Google News alert at http://www.google.com/alerts. News Alerts will not pick up local media and some mainstream media stories which do not appear on a news website, where possible we put these stories on our website to provide wide access to the stories.
- Pemulwuy Project On Exhibition until 24 October 2008
- The AHC’s Pemulwuy Project has finally been put on exhibition by the Department of Planning. The Details of the project can be found on the listing below …
- Operation Laser 2 - Redfern
- Operation Laser 2 was conducted in the Redfern Local Area Command on Friday September 19 with great results reports this media re;ease of Monday, 22 Sep 2008 from police media.
- Can you spot our new Premier?
- The following background article on Nathan Rees by Claire Harvey appeared in the Sunday Telegraph of 21st September 2008. The article tells the story of Nathan Rees visiting Ray Jackson Waterloo home when he was Milton Orkopoulos Chief of Staff with the suggestion for a coup against the Aboriginal Housing Company. We have reproduced the entire article and not just the section about Nathan Rees earlier involvement in the NSW governments dirty tricks in Redfern Waterloo.
- Keneally tight-lipped on key planning projects
- Kristina Keneally hopes to restore public confidence in the portfolio she inherited from ousted former minister Frank Sartor reports Alex McDonald in City news of 21 September 2008.
- Redfern-Waterloo Authority chips in on the Block
- Plans to upgrade the Block in Redfern are edging toward reality after a politically-driven deal saw the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) pay the $68,750 Department of Planning processing fee writes Emma Kemp in City News of 21 September 2008.
- Greens get two seats
- The Greens have picked up a second seat on Sydney Council. Mardi Gras ‘78er Irene Doutney will join Chris Harris on the council following a flow of preferences reports Sydney Star observer on 20 September 2008.
- Getting Shunted
- QUENTIN DEMPSTER, PRESENTER: Getting shunted: our investigation into the eviction of a heritage blacksmith operating at Sydney's old Redfern railway yards has had a happy ending. It now appears that the future of the historic workshops has been secured. But the blacksmith's threatened eviction has become a rallying point for those who want to save more of the valuable railway heritage at Redfern. Nick Grimm reports on ABC’s NSW Stateline of 19th September 2008.
- NSW Planning: Right Wing and a Prayer?
- Given growing distrust over the nexus between decision making and political donations, the meteoric downfall of Frank Sartor, and public disdain for nearly every major development booked by the NSW Government in the last three years, newly-minted Planning Minister Kristina Keneally might have been hoping for a saintly fanfare. Instead, writes Roger Hanney in the City hub of 18th September 2008, the pilgrims are getting restless.
- Keneally: Sartor’s planning reforms to continue
- Newly appointed Planning and Redfern-Waterloo Minister, local Heffron MP Kristina Keneally, said she won’t be reversing highly unpopular planning reforms introduced by her predecessor, but flagged a new policy of community consultation and openness reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 17th September 2008..
- Rees comes to Eveleigh for kids
- The Premier and Arts Minister, Nathan Rees, today launched the inaugural Sydney Children’s Festival at the CarriageWorks at Eveleigh reports Central on 16th September 2008.
- Pemulway project breakthrough
- A STAND-OFF over the future of Redferns The Block has been broken after negotiations have seen the Redfern Waterloo Authority pay a $68,750 Department of Planning processing fee for the Aboriginal Housing Companys Pemulway Project reports Robert Burton-Bradley and Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 10th September 2008.
- Kristina Keneally Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo
- Local Member for Heffron, Kristina Keneally MP has become both the Minister for Planning and the Minister for Redfern Waterloo in the cabinet announced today by Premier Nathan Rees who also becomes Minster for the Arts which is responsible for CarriageWorks. Local Member for Marrickville Carmel Tebbutt MP in addition to being Deputy Premier is also Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister for Commerce. The full Cabinet and portfolio list from the Media Release from the Premier's office is below:
- Plan to boost Aboriginal employment
- The city’s indigenous leaders have cautiously welcomed the Federal Government’s plan to use its $76 billion nation-building infrastructure program to tackle Aboriginal unemployment writes Patrick Billings in City News on 7th September 2008.
- RWA Pays AHC Fee for Pemulwuy Project Assessment
- Michael Mundine Senior, CEO of the Aboriginal Housing Company received a call from Meredith Burgmann this morning (Saturday September 6th 2008) advising that the Redfern Waterloo Authority has paid the $68,750 fee for the assessment and exhibition of the AHC's Pemulwuy project. No conditions have been attached by the RWA on the AHC concerning the payment.
- Wrought Artworks Statement on Lease with RWA/ATP
- With the strong active support from heritage bodies,community, former workers, unions, councilors, and local aboriginals along with the "Keep the Tradition" media- campaign, which culminated in a very successful Openday at the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop Blacksmithing Bays, Wrought Artworks were offered a license agreement from RWA.
- Sorry state of public housing – What’s going on?
- It’s been one year since NSW Minister for Housing Matt Brown witnessed the state of public housing in the Redfern/Waterloo area, and nothing has changed reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Sartor visits North Eveleigh
- On August 20, Planning Minister Frank Sartor made a walk around the North Eveleigh site with representatives from the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, the Department of Planning, consultants and a selection of local residents who have made objections to the North Eveleigh Concept Plan. This followed a project presentation to the Minister by the RWA and its consultants, and discussion on the issues of concern reports Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Blacksmithing sparks community interest
- “Frank Sartor is a destroyer of history. If this goes, who else do we blame?” asked Colin Fenn, one of the estimated 2,000 people who attended the Open Day of Wrought Artworks and the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop on Sunday August 17, located in Bays 1 and 2 of the Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh. Guided tours were provided of the operational heritage blacksmiths’ shop, and a public meeting was held at midday to call for the immediate withdrawal of the Notice to Quit and Threat of Eviction that has been served to Wrought Artworks reports Wendy Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Burgmann on the Block
- Dr Meredith Burgmann, the Labor Party’s mayoral candidate, met with Redfern residents and community leaders on Saturday August 23 to hear their concerns, and to outline her own vision for the area reports Alex Mackenzie in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- “Access is a right, not a privilege”
- The upgrade of Redfern station is the most central aspect of the RWA's plans for the social and economic redevelopment of the Redfern-Waterloo area reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
