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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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- 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.
- CUB TO BECOME A STATE SIGNIFICANT SITE
- Planning Minister Frank Sartor today (21 June 2006) announced he would intervene in the $800 million redevelopment of the Carlton United Brewery site near Central Station, states a media release from his office.
- CALL TO ARMS ON MINISTER'S CUB INTERVENTION
- The following report on Public Meeting regarding the CUB site and what residents can do to try and stop the CUB site being taken over by Planning Minister sartor is taken from CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 16 June 2006 - No. 301
- Once-bullied Sartor grows up and becomes a bully
- IT'S that dumb-and-dumber feeling you get when someone grabs your hand and makes you slap yourself, hard, in the face. It's how the City of Sydney council must be feeling right now - writes Elizabeth Farrelly on the CUB site in the Sydney Morning Herald June 14, 2006.
- Moore and Sartor trade blows over city brewery site
- THE Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, has sought assurances from the State Government that money raised from the development of the Carlton & United Breweries site on Broadway will be spent on affordable housing in Redfern reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor Sydney Morning Herald June 10, 2006.
- URGENT MEETING ON CUB SITE
- The City is holding an urgent meeting to discuss events surrounding the Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale. Join me at 7.30 pm Thursday 15 June 2006, Medina Executive Sydney Central, 2 Lee Street Sydney (adjacent to Central Station). Update from Clover's E-News No 300 of 10 June 2006.
- Slum city fears as Sartor grabs massive project - 9 June 2006
- THE Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, is set to take control of the city's biggest residential project, igniting fears he will allow enormous apartment blocks that will become Sydney's future slums reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald June 9, 2006.
- Minister Steers Government Toward Another Cross City Tunnel Disaster - 9 June 2006
- Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP in a Media release of 9 JUne 2006 called on the Minister for Planning to come clean on just how much money the State Government was planning to take from the CUB site, and to give assurances about how this money would be spent.
- Intervention threatens Foster's development: Moore
- The Lord Mayor of Sydney has accused the New South Wales Government of derailing an agreement over the development of the Carlton and United Breweries site on Broadway reports ABC News 9 June 2006.
- Frank Sartors comments on CUB to Adam Spencer on 702 ABC - 9 June 2006
- The following is a transcript of Minister Sartor's comments about the CUB site following a discussion about changes to Basix for high rise buildings.
- Carlton & United Breweries Site Heritage Under Threat from Minister:
- The following media release was issued by Andrew Woodhouse, president, Australian Heritage Institute Inc. - an Australia-wide umbrella group of local heritage societies on Thursday 8th JUNE 2006 in response to the SCPC voting to hand the CUB site over to Minister Frank Sartor. Under the RWA Act the RWA, for which Ministrer Sartor is also the Minister, gets the Affordable Housing levy from the CUB Site.
- Kristina Keneally Backs Watertower Residents on Marian Street Park
- Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald 8 June 2006 contained the following article in which she anounced "I am writing to the Minister for Redfern and Waterloo to ask that he to listen to their concerns and to use the BEP to zone Marian Street Park as open space. This will ensure that the park remains a park. This would give local residents certainty. I also ask the Minister to develop a plan for the future maintenance of the park to ensure the park remains a valuable asset for the local community". The article says:
- Heffron wins Public and Affordable Housing in Budget
- The Iemma Government will spend over $20 million to provide much-needed affordable and public housing in the Heffron electorate reports Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald 8 June 2006.
- POETS CORNER PRESCHOOL GETS NEW PLACES AND MORE SUPPORT
- Inner Sydney families are to benefit from an immediate $318,527 investment in local preschools under the NSW Governments $85.2 million Preschool Investment Plan reports Kristina Keneally in her Heffron E-Herald 8 June 2006.
- Rachel Foster should be considered for aged-care - SSH June 2006
- A Melbourne-based company has approached the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA)expressing an interest in operating an aged-care facility on the site of the former Rachel Foster Hospital in Redfern’s Pitt Street reports Alice Mulheron in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Local MP calls for street drinkers to be moved onto Wet Centres - SSH June 2006
- The concept of Wet Centres to target street drinking has been raised as new Alcohol Free Zones (AFZs) are to be implemented in Redfern-Waterloo. Federal member for Heffron, Kristina Keneally, has raised the prospect of Wet Centres as an alternative strategy that could compliment Alcohol Free Zones reports Bill Birtles in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Inner city, government buses not good enough - SSH June 2006
- A number of inner city bus services linking South Sydney to the CBD and beyond are consistently overcrowded and unreliable, leaving commuters stranded with no transportation reports Todd Dagwell in South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- NSW Government Aboriginal Affairs Plan – For everywhere but in Redfern? - SSH June 2006
- In 2003, the NSW Government agreed to a policy called “Two Ways Together Partnerships: A New Way of Doing Business with Aboriginal People”. It was to run until 2012. Report from The South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Redfern Police Station has its formal opening - SSH June 2006
- A good cross-section of the Redfern-Waterloo community was at the ceremony for the official opening of the new Redfern Police Station on Friday 19 May by the NSW Minister for Police, Carl Scully reports Trevor Davies in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
- Midnight Basketball pilot sends warm ripples through the community - SSH June 2006
- Midnight Basketball, an educational and basketball program for kids, was launched for the first time in Australia in the Redfern/Waterloo area in February this year reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald June 2006.
