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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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- Renaissance in Redfern – My Observation
- Last year, The South Sydney Herald had an article from Denise Davis who had been to the big apple, New York, and looked with interest at Harlem - the sometime infamous New York suburb which over the past decade has been transformed. She drew some comparison between Harlem and Redfern. Here, former New Yorker Elliot Yancey who now resident in Redfern-Waterloo, adds to the discussion on whether we can learn anything from Harlem writes Elliot Yancey in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- International gifts of creativity for The Block
- I am a Black American woman from California. I studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, with a specialisation in African Areas. Soon after I graduated, I went on to work in Africa and was based in Harare, Zimbabwe. This extensive experience in international work has helped contribute to my work with the Aboriginal community in Redfern writes Angela Pitts in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Letters - Re Local MP calls for street drinkers to be moved into Wet Centres
- In your June 2006 edition, you ran an article ‘Local MP calls for Street Drinkers to be moved into Wet Centres’. It will be interesting to see if your paper is more interested in providing the ‘Harm Minimisation Industry’ mantra with an unchallenged forum than providing balance reporting on the treatment of addictive behaviour writes Ross Smith in this letter in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Lions Club starts up in Redfern
- The Lions Club is establishing a branch in Redfern-Waterloo, with the aim of helping the local community through various projects. The formative meeting was held in early June and the branch will be officially created once more local members join. The Lions already have in Australia over 1,400 clubs with 30,000 members. Being a service club, the bulk of their work is aimed at community service, particularly towards young, elderly and disabled people reports Bill Birtles in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Council to end waiting list nightmare for childcare places
- City of Sydney Council is considering the introduction of a centralised waiting list for all childcare facilities in the Local Government area. Deputy Lord Mayor Verity Firth says her experiences as an expectant mother led her to call for a this type of waiting list because the current system was a “bureaucratic nightmare" reports Joseph Correy in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- NSW Government grant sends Poet’s “over the moon”
- A birthday party atmosphere greeted the media and the Minister for Community Services, Reba Meagher and the Member for Heffron, Kristina Keneally when they arrived at the community based Poet’s Corner Preschool on a recent cold June morning. The occasion was the presentation of a cheque for $110,000 by Ms Meagher that is to be used to upgrade the school, allowing the accommodation of an extra five children reports Vladimir Korotkov in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- COUNCIL CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR CUB CONTROLS
- The City has unanimously confirmed its support for public exhibition of draft planning controls for the Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale and called on the Minister to respond to community concerns on the future of the site. (CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 30 June 2006 - No. 303)
- Home and away: Seven's new face
- CHANNEL Seven will move its television production centre to Redfern in 2009, in a $120 million development that will triple the workforce at Australian Technology Park and boost Redfern's urban renewal reports Sherrill Nixon SMH's Urban Affairs Editor.
- $150m TV studio for Redfern
- THE Seven Network and its property partner Rebel Property Group will build a $150 million television production and office complex at Sydney's Redfern reports Maurice Dunlevy in The Australian 29 June 29 2006.
- Skater's paradise - Waterloo Skate park
- Taking the street and putting it into a park is no easy task writes Alexandra Walker in the Sydney Central Courier of 28 June 2006.
- $120M Deal to Make Redfern a Media and Employment Hub Wednesday, 28 June 2006
- NSW Premier, Morris lemma today announced a landmark agreement to build a new television production centre and commercial offices at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) at Redfern.
- Political pub brawl
- LORD Mayor Clover Moore has flagged legal action against Planning Minister Frank Sartor over his decision to seize control of development of the former Carlton United Brewery site reports the Daily Telegraph June 28 2006.
- Seven plans $120m move
- THE Seven Network will move much of its television production to a new $120 million facility to be built in Sydney's Redfern. The Australian June 28, 2006.
- Frankly, these are no Sartorial masterpieces
- The following three breif items dealing with the CUB site ran in the Alex Mitchell and Kerry-Anne Walsh editied Naked eye in the Sun-Herald of June 26.
- Sartor seizes $800m project - 22 June 2006
- PLANNING Minister Frank Sartor has seized control of the development of the city's $800 million Carlton and United Brewery site from Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, claiming it had become a "constipated camel" By SIMON BENSON, State Political Reporter Daily Telegraph.
- Sartor’s grab for control puts residents in a froth
- THE Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, has seized control of Sydney's biggest residential development, saying he would save it from becoming a "constipated camel" not worthy of the city's gateway. Report by Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor SMH 22 June Page 6.
- Government and Developers to Bulldoze Sydney’s Heritage - CoS 22 June 2006
- Commenting on the State Government’s take over of the Carlton & United Brewery Site (CUB) in Chippendale, Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP said; “This is like saving the Rocks all over again. We have heritage buildings which the Government and developers want to bulldoze to put up high rise says a media relaes from the City of Sydney Council.
- Are Urban Slums the Price of Labor’s Re-election?
- The announcement by Planning Minister Frank Sartor that he is taking over approval authority for the Carlton and United brewery site on Broadway on the same day a plan by Treasurer Michael Costa for unplanned land releases in south-west Sydney is revealed, raises the question of whether new urban slums are to be the price of Labor’s re-election campaign, according to Greens MP Sylvia Hale.
- City of Sydney Comment on the Carlton United Brewery site Anouncement
- The following Media Statement was issued on 21 june 2006 by City of Sydney Council in response to the Minister's decision to declare the CUB site State Significant.
- State takes on beer development - 21 June 2006 AAP
- THE New South Wales Government has taken control of the redevelopment of central Sydney's Carlton United Brewery site from the City of Sydney council.
