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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- 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.
- Principles of Cooperation
- Text of Principles of Cooperation signed between the City of Sydney and the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council signed on 11th April 2006.
- Clover Moore Urges Submissions to RWA Draft Built Environment Plan
- URGENT ACTION NEEDED! - Redfern Waterloo Authority Draft Built Environment Plan April 2006
- What do Crookwell and Redfern have in common?
- In the April Edition of the South Sydney Herald Trevor Davies interview with the National Partys Duncan Gay who is a Redfern resident when parliament is sitting.
- Redfern-Waterloo tour, a thing of beauty
- In this article from the April 2006 South Sydney Herald Mickie Quick talks about the latest of a series of Redfern Waterloo tours conducted by Squatspace.
- Hopes for Redfern Police Command of long-term Chippendale resident
- In the April 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald Dorothy McRae-McMahon intervied the Redfern Police Commander Catherine Burn.
- Residents sceptical of redevelopment
- Ben Spies- Butcher in the April 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald reports on recent community meetings concerning the RWA's Draft Built Environment Plan.
- State Cabinet invited to Redfern-Waterloo
- South Sydney Herald in its April 2006 edition reports on the invitation issued recently to the NSW Premier.
- Love song to Sydney, the gritty city
- From wharves to warehouses, there is much to admire in our dirty old town, writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald of March 31, 2006
- Premier lays out his plans - 29.03.2006
- More trains, more public-private partnerships and more State control over planning – Morris Iemma tells the Courier what to expect during his tenure at the top. Report Kim Shaw Sydney Central Courier.
- Labor councils turn on Sartor as ugly fight develops over local planning - 26 March 2006
- PLANNING Minister Frank Sartor's bid to seize statewide planning powers to override local councils has been hit by an avalanche of protest, especially from leading local government figures in the Labor Party reports Alex Mitchell State political editor in the SMH March 26, 2006