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About Redfern Eveleigh Darlington and Waterloo

This section aims to assist people locate information about the Redfern-Waterloo area.

Find a Local Community Service

This folder provides some different ways of locating community services in Redfern - Waterloo and surrounding areas. Not all services will show up in all the directories so if you can not find what you are looking for in one directory you may need to try the others. While organisations putting directories together try to keep them up to date this is not always possible, so check with the provider before you make arrangements based on their listings. If you know of any other directories that would be useful to have added to this site please contact mail@redwatch.org.au

Local Transport

Redfern Waterloo sits in the middle of a number of transport corridors for rail, road and bus. The problem for many is how to move to locally without having to go into the city and back out again. Here we provide some infomation on Local Transport.

Local Media

Redfern Waterloo is covered by a free monthly local community newspaper "The South Sydney Herald" as well as a commercial weekly free paper the "Sydney Central Courier". Sydney Central Courier is available on the web and we tell you here how to find it. As South Sydney News is not otherwise available we make available large PDF versions here for those who would not otherwise see it!

Local Business

This section contains details on the local Chamber of Commerce.

Translation Tools

People from many backgrounds live in Redfern Waterloo and, apart from English, the most common languages spoken at home are Russian, Chinese, Greek, Arabic, Spanish and Vietnamese. Other important languages are Portuguese, Turkish, Indonesian, Korean, Italian, Serbian and Tagalog. Here we have put together some web based translation tools to help get a rough translation of this or other web sites.

Parkway Proposal - a green off-road pedestrian-cycle route through Chippendale

The Parkway proposal was presented at a Chippendale Community Meeting on 2 August 2006. The Parkway is a concept plan for a green off-road pedestrian-cycle route through Chippendale. It is a series of green links through local neighbourhoods - taking you from the City & east Darling Harbour to Alexandria, Newtown and the Australian Technology Park through Chippendale, with an east - west axis taking you from Glebe to the University of NSW. This is achieved through the recreation of green space and public domain opportunities – either through footpath extensions or dedicated off-road opportunities, reducing through traffic and prioritising pedestrian and cycle movement, where possible.

Local Human Services NGO Updates

There are a range of peak bodies (such as NCOSS) looking after the various interests of sectors of the NGO Human services however from time to time we get asked to put some NGO material of broad interest to people in Redfern Waterloo on the REDWatch website. Such information can be found in this section of the site. [For information on local human services responses to the RWA Human Services Plans see www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/humanservices ].

Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP)

Redfern has had a CDEP project for the last 20 years. It has helped many Aboriginal people get into the regular job market as well as provided opportunities for many others to contribute to their community by undertaking socially useful work in the local community. On 6 November 2006 the Federal Government announced that CDEP would cease operating in urban areas and that it would be replaced by a new scheme that would be better suited to the labour market as it is at its strongest in 30 years. The proposed changes to CDEP will impact on Redfern Waterloo and hence we have collected some information on the proposed changes and the moves by some in the community to lobby for retention of the CDEP programmes in the area.

Elections

REDWatch encourages the communities of Redfern Waterloo to use the opportunity elections offer to agitate for improved political commitment to the area and to policy changes that will beneficially impact on the areas communities. REDWatch is made up of people who support all major political parties and none - REDWatch supports no particular party. We do however encourage people to be involved in supporting the candidate and party of their choice and for debate about the areas issues including at election time.