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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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- Factory Balnaves Foundation Open House Program Continues
- The Factory has announced the renewal of our partnership with the Sydney Opera House and the excellent and exciting Balnaves Foundation Open House Program. The Balnaves Foundation Open House Program is about making Sydney Opera house accessible to all and to broaden community access reports this media release from the Factory Community Centre.
- Minister steps in to fix playgrounds
- Last week Central ran an article about the poorly maintained Housing NSW Playgrounds putting children at risk. Following the article the Minister stepped in to address the issue. The following Article and Editorial by Lisa Capozzi in Central 30th April 2008 and a letter to the editor on the issue tell the story.
- Redfern rocks
- REDFERN locals and fans from all over Sydney queued for hours to see their favourite stars - including Hollywood 'it' girl Mischa Barton and US rapper 50 Cent - strut down the red carpet at the MTV Awards, held at our own Australian Technology Park reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central 30th April 2008.
- Lest we Forget
- ABORIGINAL performers guide the Indigenous and Torres Straight Islander war veteran march on Anzac Day in Redfern (left) and (below) a crowd of about 20,000 watched veterans march through central Sydney. Hundreds of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders honoured their war dead on April 25 at dawn services across the two nations and at battlefields around the globe where their soldiers have fallen reports Central of 30th April 2008.
- Six- star system fails to earn its stripes
- A growing demand for six-star green buildings from Australian architects and developers means the country's planning authorities are being pushed to rewrite archaic ratings systems and rules reports Michelle Singer in the Australian Financial Review of 29th April 2008.
- There goes the Neighbourhood
- There Goes The Neighbourhood is an exhibition and book about the contested inner city suburb of Redfern which runs is produced and presented by Performance Space at CarriageWorks from 23 May 2009 until 27 June from 12PM - 6PM (TUE - SAT) says the media release from Performance Space.
- $550m to `sex up' Eveleigh
- THE long-neglected railyards at Eveleigh are set to become one of Sydney's trendiest areas under a $550 million revamp of the site reports political writer Linda Silmalis in the Suday Telegraph of 27 April 2008.
- Movement at the station to ease squeeze
- A $550 MILLION redevelopment of the old Redfern railway workshops will include a 16-storey block of flats just 100 metres from the troubled area of The Block reports Frank Walker in the Sun Herald of April 27, 2008.
- DRAFT BLUEPRINT FOR NORTH EVELEIGH RELEASED
- Minister for Planning and Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor today previewed draft plans that will help deliver an upgrade to Redfern Station and new affordable housing to the area reports this media release from Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Planning and the Arts Frank Sartor.
- Indigenous diggers march through Redfern
- More than 100 onlookers have cheered on Indigenous veterans taking part in the Coloured Diggers' March in Redfern, in inner Sydney reports ABC on Friday April 25, 2008.
- Friends of Eveleigh Remember fallen Railway Workers from the Large
- ON ANZAC DAY WE WILL REMEMBER THEM - They left the Large to see the world and to fight a bloody war in support of their country and our allies. Sadly many did not return reports this media release from Friends of Eveleigh on 24th April 2008.
- Indigenous servicemen to be remembered
- A roll of honour for Aboriginal ex-servicemen and women will be compiled during an indigenous Anzac Day celebration in Sydney's Redfern reports AAP April 23, 2008 in the Sydney Morning Herald.
- Fight your own battles
- In this opinion piece on nzherald.co.nz Irfan Yusuf, a Sydney lawyer who won the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger Award for public affairs writing puts the Coloured Digger story into the broader colonial war context.
- Risky State of Play
- HOUSING NSW playgrounds in Redfern and Waterloo are no place for children, with rusty equipment, sharp edges, broken swings and missing bolts just accidents waiting to happen, mothers said. Owen and Samantha (pictured) just want a safe place to play, with equipment that works reports Robert Burton-Bradley with Pictures by Phil Rogers in a feature article in Central of 23 April 2008. The topic was also the subject of the editorial also below.
- False Promises - `Clueless' minister can't deliver
- HOUSING NSW has contradicted Housing Minister Matt Brown about the failure of a new Waterloo Graffiti eradication program. The Minister announced the program last month and at a press conference at the Marton public housing building said the new program was to target graffiti both "inside and outside" the building reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- Redfern Residents Brace for MTV Awards
- WITH the MTV awards taking place this weekend, Redfern residents around Australian Technology Park are getting ready for another noisy Saturday night reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- Black & White .Irene Doutney A Green Government
- REDFERN resident Irene Doutney has spent her life fighting for Sydney's less fortunate. Now the veteran aid worker and volunteer has turned her hand to politics, aiming to become the second Greens councillor on Sydney Council come September's election reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008..
- Hillsong ‘Recruiting’ Kids - Club volunteers accused
- HILLSONG Church has been accused of infiltrating the South Sydney Police and Community Youth Club in the guise of volunteers in order to recruit children reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- March for Recognition - Indigenous veterans stand up to be remembered
- THIS Anzac Day, an often forgotten but vital contingent of diggers will be remembered at Redfern reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008.
- Family & Friends Welcome to March in Redfern in ANZAC Day
- Speaking in Redfern last night at the opening of the Coloured Digger-2 exhibition at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern ANZAC Day March Coordinator, Pastor Ray Minniecon, last night issued an open invitation to supporters in the community to march with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and servicewomen and their family members in Redfern on ANZAC Day reports this "Coloured Digger" media release of 23 April 2008.
