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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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- Sartor slammed over CUB
- SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore accused NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor of making a multi-million-dollar "cash grab" yesterday by contemplating higher density at Foster's Group's $1 billion-plus CUB site development in Sydney's Chippendale, in exchange for higher affordable housing levies reports Paddy Manning in The Australian June 03, 2006.
- State Government Action Threatens CUB Site - 2 June 2006
- An eleventh hour grab for cash by the State Government is jeopardising two years of careful planning to set development controls and achieve community benefit from redevelopment of the historic Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale reports Clover Moore in her E-News and a media statement.
- School idea a boost for Aborigines
- A PRIVATE school's move to open an inner-city school for Aboriginal children has been met with enthusiasm, prompting offers of funding support from the community reports Hannah Edwards Sun Herald May 28, 2006.
- A college of dreams - 21 May 2006
- ONE of Australia's oldest private schools plans to establish a school for Aborigines to try to raise education standards among indigenous children reports Hannah Edwards in the Sun Herald May 21, 2006.
- Aborigines caught in vicious circle of housing neglect - 15 May 2006
- ABORIGINAL housing in many remote communities is so run-down through lack of cash that building new dwellings is pointless, a housing research body study has found, reports Debra Jopson in the SMH.
- ROCK THE BLOCK FESTIVAL A HARMONIOUS AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS
- The following article has appeared on the Redfern-Waterloo Yahoo group and the Stop the War Coalition web site in Sydney about the event.
- Aboriginal leaders, church in feud over memorial seat - 3 May 2006
- A ROW has erupted over the fate of a memorial seat to the Aboriginal activist Mum Shirl reports Linda Morris in the SMH.
- Redfern Waterloo Residents Demand SEPP be Withdrawn - 3 May 2006
- The text of the REDWatch Media Release is below:
- For our cultural desert's sake, roll them off to rot - 3 may 2006
- Elizabeth Farrelly in the SMH looks at the 3801, Heritage and the Redfern Waterloo Plan.
- Public Housing Tenants Lose 70 Per cent of Wages Under new Rent Reforms
- The following media statement was issued by the Tenants Union of NSW Co-op Ltd at the beginning of May 2006.
- Hard work leaves public renters in the lurch
- INCREASES in rents paid by the state's public housing tenants are the main reason some of them lose 93 cents of every dollar earned above a "moderate income" threshold, a report shows. Report by Matthew Moore SMH May 1 2006.
- Now was this really a focus on Redfern? - May 2006
- Who determines the real agenda in focus groups, asks Tim Brunero as he reviews his participation in a recent event organised by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority in the South Sydney Herald.
- Campaign to Save Marian Park - May 2006
- Residents of Redfern’s Watertower building are fighting to save a small but rare piece of open parkland from the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s redevelopment plans reports Bill Birtles in the South Sydney herald May 2006.
- Rachel Forster, please redevelop it for the community - May 2006
- This letter is reproduced from the South Sydney Herald of may 2006.
- State Cabinet considers invitation to visit Redfern-Waterloo - May 2006
- An update on last Months South Sydney Herald story on the invitation to State Cabinet to visit Redfern-Waterloo by Vladimir Korotkov in the May 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- 3000 homes for elderly - 30 April 2006
- ALMOST 3000 new homes will be built or bought for the elderly under a multi-million dollar State Government plan to address the state's ageing population reports Linda Silmalis in the Sunday Telegraph.
- Kristina Keneally's Submission to the Redfern Waterloo Authority's Draft Built Environment Plan
- The extract below is taken from Kristina Keneally's Heffron E-Herald No 12 of 22 April 2006 and sets out the MP for Heffrons view of the RWA's Built Environment Plan.
- Plaudits for police - 19 April 2006
- The City of Sydney Lord Mayor has congratulated Superintendent Catherine Burn and her team at Redfern police for the progress they have made in working with the local Aboriginal community and elders reports the Sydney Central Courier. [Please note that there are some errors in this article - at the foot of the article you will find some clarifications made by Redfern LAC Commander Catherine Burn].
- Redfern plan threatens cultural identity, critics say
- By Sherrill Nixon, Urban Affairs Editor SMH April 15, 2006
- Rob Welsh Speech to City of Sydney Principles of Cooperation Agreement Signing
- Speech By Rob Welsh, Chairperson, Metropolitan Aboriginal Land Council 11 April 2006.
