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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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- The divisions over Regent Street changes: Council and RWA support it, RTA is against it
- In the mid 1990s, the RTA turned Regent Street into a one-way traffic strip. At the time, there was a demonstration led by former Waterloo resident Margaret Barry reports Trevor Davies in the December 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- Political Profile - Ben Spies-Butcher, Greens’ Heffron community-minded candidate
- The Greens party has nominated the community-minded Ben Spies-Butcher to take on the ALP’s Kristina Keneally in the district of Heffron in next March’s State elections reports Ben Falkenmire in the December 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- More Low Cost Counselling Clinics open in South Sydney
- The Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service (GLCS) in Newtown has provided an anonymous telephone counselling service since 1973 reports Samantha Van in the December 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- No meal means no drink at the corner pub
- One of Redfern’s oldest pubs, the Berkley Hotel, is set to turn into a bar and grill, despite strong community resistance against the plan reports Bill Birtles in the December 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- Graffti – potential cultural asset or environmental vandalism?
- Graffti is widely regarded as a form of crime against the environment but this sweeping generalisation ignores the distinction between a well-crafted mural and a dopey “tag” writes Anna Christie in the December 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- St Vincent’s sells Caritas to developers - aggravating residents
- St Vincent de Paul Society is to sell its Caritas Centre mental health site in Darlinghurst to developers to fund Australia’s first integrated mental health, drug and alcohol and community health facility reports Ben Falkenmire in the December 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- Chippendale battles for Survival
- The World Health Organisation recognises Northcott
- Public Housing Tenants face uncertain future
- Turnbull updates: empowering the community
- Before Redfern residents Geoff and Lyn Turnbull joined community group REDWatch, they sent out e-mail updates to a community starved of information reports Samantha Van in the December 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
- Clover Moore update on CUB Concept Plan
- The City this week finalised its submission on the Carlton and United Brewery (CUB) Site Concept Plan and will next Monday consider a request from Fosters, the site owners, to include some sections of Council owned land within the Concept Plan, primarily for parkland.
- Council Meeting for ACI Site Revised Plans - 9th December 2006
- Revised plans for the major ACI Site redevelopment, between Bourke, Crescent and Danks Street Waterloo, will be discussed at a public meeting next Saturday, 9 December.
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- The curtain is about to rise on one of Sydney's boldest arts projects, to date - the renovated and re-invented Eveleigh rail yards reports Mark Chipperfield with Photograph by Sahlan Hayes in the SMH’s the(Sydney)magazine of December 06.
- REBUILDING THE BLOCK
- The scene of some of the fiercest struggles over Aboriginal rights, the Block in Redfern is embroiled in a planning battle that could make or break the battered community, reports Lisa Dabscheck in the SMH’s the(Sydney)magazine December 06.
- Holmes a Court's coup complete
- WITH his vision for the Rabbitohs taking another step forward, majority owner Peter Holmes a Court yesterday rated victory in the battle for the struggling South Sydney Leagues Club alongside the historic day he and Russell Crowe took over the football club reports Brent Read and Stuart Honeysett in The Australian of November 30, 2006.
- 3801 to leave Eveleigh Mon 27 Nov 6pm under own steam
- 3801 Ltd's lease of the 3801 Engine ceases at midnight on 26th November 2006. The 3801 Engine will leave Eveleigh the following day.
- Extra Time for CUB submissions
- The Minister for Planning has refused to extend the exhibition period for the Carlton United Brewery Site Concept Plan, but has agreed to accept submissions informally while the proposal is assessed according to CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 24 November 2006 - No. 324.
- Asbestos halts Oval works
- REDFERN Oval's $19 million redevelopment was stopped yesterday after asbestos was found on the site, sparking fears for nearby residents' safety reports The Daily Telegraph on November 22, 2006.
- The quality of mercy is likely to be severely strained
- IT'S a belt-and-braces thing. The only reason we need laws and governments is so when governments stumble into delinquency, there's some chance of keeping our collective pants up. But when the laws are designed to give government a full stretch of the elastic, there's nothing, when the delinquency hits, 'tween them and knee-deep do-do writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney morning Herald of November 22, 2006.
- Sartor under fire over planning change
- PLANNERS and politicians yesterday accused Frank Sartor of staging a power grab by attempting to manipulate the make-up of a city planning panel reports Justin Norrie the Sydney Morning heralds Urban Affairs Reporter on November 22, 2006.
