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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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- A community flourishes at Victoria Park
- Peter Morton is happy to talk about living at Victoria Park in Zetland. Having relocated four years ago from a heritage terrace in Rushcutters Bay, Peter enjoys being part of a new development and diverse community in Sydney’s south reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Elvis sings the songs of Jimmy Reed, Lionel Rose, Slim Dusty
- Country gospel, country blues, country rock, Australian country, American country … David Paul “Elvis” Beckett does it all reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Country & Redfern – with a passion
- Redfern born and bred, Joe Fenech is a passionate musician reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Adam Hill: Defying illogic
- Adam Hill is currently in his 10th year as a visual and performing artist. Descending from Clorene Morthem (Burnt Bridge, Kempsey), Adam relocated to Redfern 12 months ago, from the inner west of Sydney reports the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Bill and George – a new space for local artists
- A former Redfern nunnery that was left vacant and had fallen into disrepair has been leased to a group of local artists who have given it a face-lift and promise to turn it into a vibrant artist-run space reports Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- A new Deputy for the Lord Mayor
- Tony Pooley, last month became Sydney’s new deputy Lord Mayor. Tony, former Mayor of South Sydney Council, was elected in 2004 to the then newly-merged City Council. The Labor Party won three seats, the Liberal Party one, the Greens one and the Lord Mayor’s team achieved five seats reports Trevor Davies in the Have you heard? Column of the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Chippendale East safe, or has the battle only just started?
- The City Council has hired consultants to undertake a series of urban studies on the suburbs across the City. They are in the process of holding Community forums to discuss their findings. Last month the consultants met with Chippendale residents from the local residents group to discuss the report before the community forum reports Trevor Davies in the Have you heard? Column of the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Lending a hand to the SMH
- We ran an article about the Pemulwuy Project in our September edition after the AHC’s community meeting before final submission to the Department of Planning. Days later an article containing suspiciously similar content with a "fresh" angle was run by the SMH reports Trevor Davies in the Have you heard? Column of the South Sydney Herald of October 2007.
- Commissioners Set stored in the Open at Thirlmere - FOE Media Release
- WHO ALLOWED THESE TWO PRICELESS CARRIAGES TO BE TAKEN FROM EVELEIGH TO THIRLMERE AND TO BE PLACED IN THE OPEN, AND EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS FOR OVER A WEEK? asks a Friends of Eveleigh Media Release of 6th October, 2007.
- NSW ABORIGINAL HOUSING OFFICE BOARD APPOINTED
- Minister for Housing Matt Brown today said the inaugural chairman of the Aboriginal Housing Office today returns to the post, adding experience to a new and dynamic board announced today, 4th October 2007, reports this media release from the AHO.
- Developer to go it alone on greenhouse gases
- THE new owners of the Carlton United Brewery site are planning how to generate their own electricity to reduce greenhouse gases - even though the State Government does not demand it reports Catharine Munro, Urban Affairs Editor of the SMH of September 28, 2007.
- Quek's olive branch
- Stanley Quek's Frasers Property Group has held out an olive branch to angry residents near the $800 million city-fringe Carlton & United Brewery site in Sydney, offering to build a water factory, generate electricity on site and to make elements of the development open to public discussion reports Tina Pennotto in The Australian Financial Review of 27th September 2007.
- $1m medical business centre for Sydney
- The New South Wales Government will today announce the establishment of a Clinical Trials Business Development Centre for medical research in inner Sydney. The Science and Medical Research Minister, Verity Firth, says the centre, to be built at the Australian Technology Park at Redfern, represents a $1 million investment in the clinical trials sector reports ABC news of 24 September 2007.
- So many needy, so little room
- A critical lack of public housing makes it a tough job to be the one recommending who goes on the priority list, writes Adele Horin in the SMH of September 22, 2007.
- COMMUNITY AND RABBITOHS TO SHARE REDFERN PARK OVAL
- The Community and the South Sydney Rabbitohs will share Redfern Park Oval under a draft licence agreement which Council endorsed for public exhibition on Monday night reports CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 21 September 2007 - No. 365.
- Rabbitohs raising the stakes
- SOME $460 million in profits are generated by poker machines within a dozen or so kilometres of central Sydney, according to State Government statistics writes Kelvin Bissett in The Daily Telegraph of September 19, 2007.
- Machine ban win for losers
- IT'S the 21st century equivalent of a pub with no beer. Russell Crowe's idea of a leagues club with no poker machines left Redfern gracious but guarded yesterday reports Josh Massoud from The Daily Telegraph on September 19, 2007.
- “Urban Renewal Area” for Chippendale dropped
- Last week community representatives were shown preliminary plans for today's Workshop reported the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups in a handout to the Urban Design workshop in Chippendale on 19th September 2007.
- Frasers Broadway community information display and site tours - Wednesday 26 and Saturday 29 September 2007
- Frasers Property, the new owners of the ‘old Kent Brewery’ site on Broadway would like to extend an opportunity to the community to meet them and to see the proposed plans for the site reports a statement from Elton Consulting who are handling community engagement for Frasers.
- Rabbitohs refute Redfern Oval claims
- The South Sydney Rabbitohs have strenuously refuted claims made in a Sunday newspaper that the Club is upset about being forced to share the facilities at a re-developed Redfern Oval reports a media release on 17 September 2007 from the South Sydney Football Club.
